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While on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the Lady Bird director presented the personal letters she wrote to Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morissette and Dave Matthews, asking permission to procure the rights to their hit songs.

WHY SHE MATTERS The bicoastal stylist pulled off an awards - season trifecta: quirky - chic for Lady Bird director Gerwig, timeless glamour for Get Out actress Williams and fearless chameleon looks for Big Little Lies nominee Dern, 51.

Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, Girls Trip breakout star Tiffany Haddish, Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and The Big Sick co-writer and actor Kumail Nanjiani are set to appear at the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Today on q: Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig, i am OTHER's chief creative officer Mimi Valdes, The Hockey Sweater author Roch Carrier and photographer Mary McCartney.

Our gallery has been updated with six high quality images that were released with the interview - featuring her Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig - and you can read it below.

The 23 - year - old actress was joined at the awards show by her Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and co-star Laurie Metcalf.

As is the matter - of - fact announcement «As you all know, Lindsay turned out to be a ghost,» from guest star (and Ronan's Lady Bird director), Greta Gerwig, who also exclaims, blithely, «I don't know exactly what we do here, but let's get to work.»

The 34 - year - old actress and Lady Bird director has been a supporter of the #TimesUp movement, so people have questioned why she worked with Allen, someone who has been accused of sexual assault.

Greta Gerwig didn't win Best Director, Best Original Screenplay or Best Picture, but the Lady Bird director was magnificent and generous in defeat, exclaiming to no one in particular how much she loves Guillermo, as he delivered a typically warm victory speech.

The 36 - year - old Preacher actress and the 34 - year - old Lady Bird director teamed up for the event held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 7) in New York City.

Oscar nominations 2018: While The Shape of Water director said he would celebrate by working, Lady Bird director nominee Greta Gerwig was happy to be the fifth woman to be nominated.

Notably absent from the category is Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig, whose film has picked up other nominations.

Film: Lady Bird Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Odeya Rush Oscar Nominations (5): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: Available for purchase on YouTube, iTunes and Google Play

The Lady Bird director espouses filmmaking as a team game and writing scripts inspired by personal memory.

-- Lady Bird director nominee Greta Gerwig, in an Associated Press interview.

Not exact matches

«Lady Bird» is semi-autobiographical — director Greta Gerwig also grew up in Sacramento at the same time, went to a private Catholic high school, and moved to NYC after graduation.

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

It's not just the dialogue that feels authentic in Lady Bird — the solo directorial debut from Gerwig, one of the most talented young directors in Hollywood.

After a whimsical white ensemble at the 2018 Critics» Choice Awards, the «Lady Bird» director went for a darker mood in Proenza Schouler.

Critics Consensus: Lady Bird delivers fresh insights about the turmoil of adolescence — and reveals writer - director Greta Gerwig as a fully formed filmmaking talent.

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

A sweet, deeply personal portrayal of female adolescence that's more attuned to the bonds between best girlfriends than casual flings with boys, writer - director Greta Gerwig's beautiful Lady Bird flutters with the attractively loose rhythms of youth.

Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.

Both Lady Bird and Get Out walked away with big nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for both.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

A24 just uploaded a very fun video of a Q&A made with our dearest Lady Bird ensemble, featuring director Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Timothée Chalamet, Odeya Rush, Marielle Scott and Bob Stephenson.

The power of women has been the theme this season and only three films have female writers — Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), The Shape of Water (Vanessa Taylor is the co-writer with director Guillermo del Toro) and The Big Sick «s Emily V. Gordon (co-writer with husband Kumail Nanjiani).

A Telluride world premiere (even if the festival refuses to use that term), «Lady Bird» received one of the festival's most rapturous responses, where «Moonlight» director Barry Jenkins introduced the film and it received a string of positive reviews.

Gerwig's movie is up for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and the writer - director's Catholic high school is throwing its own «Lady Bird» - themed Oscar party.

Best Director Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Joe Wright, Darkest Hour Spoilers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread; Steven Spielberg, The Post; Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

The school is so proud of Gerwig, who is only the fifth woman nominated for Best Director, that A24's official «Lady Bird» poster is mounted in the school's administrative office along with a crucifix and a photo of the pope.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

Matt writes: Kick off 2018 with RogerEbert.com's compilation of interview highlights from 2017, featuring several of this year's awards season frontrunners, including «Darkest Hour» star Gary Oldman and «Lady Bird» writer / director Greta Gerwig.

It's no wonder her debut as a feature film writer and director would be met with a certain level of expectation, but what she delivers with Lady Bird is something even more magical and grander than could have ever be expected.

Lady Bird is the writer / director's gentle, through passionately prickly look at the haze that lies just beyond adolescence, with Saoirse Ronan («The Grand Budapest Hotel») playing Christine, the also titular protagonist who must navigate the...

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's poignant coming - of - age drama Lady Bird came in as the runner - up.

«Call Me By Your Name,» «Dunkirk,» «Lady Bird,» and «The Post» impressed with eight nominations each, and are all in the running for Best Picture and Best Director, among others.

At the Director's Guild of America's Los Angeles Theater on February 3, 2018, Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), and Jordan Peele (Get Out) all sat down for a three - hour conversation for the annual Meet the Nominees symposium.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig): A comic triumph from writer / director Greta Gerwig about the emotional roller coaster a young girl (Saoirse Ronan) navigates during her final year of Catholic High School in Sacramento, California.

• «Lady Bird,» writer - director Greta Gerwig's assured comedy about a teen (Saoirse Ronan) learning to leave the nest occupied by her acerbic mom (Laurie Metcalf).

Best Director Christopher Nolan, DUNKIRK Greta Gerwig, LADY BIRD Guillermo del Toro, THE SHAPE OF WATER Jordan Peele, GET OUT Martin McDonagh, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

Lady Bird movie cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges Lady Bird movie director: Greta Gerwig Lady Bird movie rating: 4 stars

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And this year, the #metoo and #timesup movements could push the Academy to lean into women with revenge drama «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Frances McDormand, relationship drama «Lady Bird» with writer - director Greta Gerwig and actresses Soairse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, Dee Rees» World War II family saga «Mudbound» with cinematographer Rachel Morrison and actress / songster Mary J. Blige, or true sports story «I, Tonya» starring Margot Robbie and Allison Janney.

Lady Bird writer - director Greta Gerwig is the first female nominee in the best director category at the Academy Awards since Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman nominated in the best director category for bringing «Lady Bird,» a tender coming - of - age story, to the screen, while «Get Out» s» Jordan Peele became the fifth black man nominated in the best director category.

Scoring nods for directing were Christopher Nolan («Dunkirk»), Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Paul Thomas Anderson («Phantom Thread»), Del Toro and Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird»), who became only the fifth woman ever nominated for best director.

I am especially thrilled to share this moment with [costar] Laurie Metcalf and our leader and director, Greta Gerwig, who, like Lady Bird, is an incredible woman and a dear friend.