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Also in attendance to show their support were Lady Bird star Laura Marano, social media maven's Rudy Mancuso, Lele Pons and King Bach, CEO and founder of Saving Innocence Kim Biddle and Alan Smyth (SVP of Saving Innocence).

As Streisand spoke, the camera showed Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan looking on in agreement, locking hands with her film's director, Greta Gerwig.

Alternatives this weekend include Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach, and the French indie - drama Jeune Femme.

Wearing a Michael Kors dress, the Lady Bird star ensured all eyes were on her for the night thanks to its eye - catching embellishment and beautiful draping.

Gerwig said her Lady Bird star, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, related strongly to the lead character, a Sacramento teen based on Gerwig whose ambitions seem too big for her town, and rallied for the role.

Lady Bird stars Saoirse Ronan as Christine McPherson — who demands others call her «Lady Bird» — a high - school senior dueling with her tough - loving mother (played with knowing candor by Laurie Metcalf), falling in — and just as quickly, out of — love, learning to distinguish true friendship from faux popularity, and dreaming of East Coast college life.

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The directorial debut by actress Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha, Mistress America), Lady Bird stars Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, The Grand Budapest Hotel) as Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a young woman who fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job.

That would also be true of The Post starring Meryl Streep and Lady Bird starring Saoirse Ronan, about a young woman on her way to being something.

Not exact matches

We saw Star Wars earlier this week and Lady Bird the week before, and I highly recommend both.

The industry veteran talks Time's Up, avoiding social media and getting the «Lady Bird» star to wear pink and sparkles.

We saw Star Wars earlier this week and Lady Bird the week before, and I highly recommend both.

On TV, Patti LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 biopic LBJ: The Early Years, starred as the mother of Christopher Burke in the weekly «dramedy» Life Goes On (1989 - 93), and was recently seen in the recurring role of a barracuda - like attorney on Law and Order.

ANNETTE BENING Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Available from 19th March FRANCES McDORMAND Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Currently unavailable on VOD MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya Currently unavailable on VOD SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water Currently unavailable on VOD SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird Currently unavailable on VOD

It's the honesty of Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» that really makes the Saoirse Ronan - starring coming - of - age movie sing.

Framed liked a stained glass window in a nod to the Catholic school setting, the poster for Lady Bird is a pleasingly understated design that puts star Saoirse Ronan front and centre.

Still, Hawkins and Oldman received a few votes, as did «Hostiles» star Christian Bale, «Lean on Pete» newcomer Charlie Plummer, «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool» co-stars Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, and Laurie Metcalf, who plays Ronan's mother in «Lady Bird.»

The stylist also spoke about her close relationship with the «Lady Bird» star.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race - critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

So far, Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird has been cleaning up on the awards circuit, earning Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle and several awards and nominations for stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

The performance category, however, was a no - brainer: «Lady Bird» star Saoirse Ronan took the top prize by a long shot.

Similar to Lady Bird, Gerwig was a member of the school's theater program and starred in productions of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» and «The Apple Tree.»

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

The fantastical movie is a world apart from «Lady Bird,» Gerwig's first solo directing credit, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a disgruntled Sacramento teen who's eager to escape her drab surroundings in 2002.

And I also enjoyed the victory of Lady Bird for top prize in Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Actress; as well as its star for Actress, Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy (Saoirse Ronan).

Saoirse was up for the top actress award at the star - studded ceremony for her role in «Lady Bird», but sadly lost out to «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» star Frances McDormand.

Lady Bird is a masterful, exquisite coming - of - age comedy starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

Credit the «Lady Bird» star, Annette Bening and an all - star cast for being the wind beneath this rickety adaptation's wings

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.

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

Lady Bird and The Current War join previously announced titles An Ordinary Man, starring Ben Kingsley, 24 Hours to Live, with Ethan Hawke, Permanent with Rainn Wilson and Patricia Arquette, and Please Stand By, starring Dakota Fanning and Toni Collette.

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.

And yet one of the season's biggest prizes for new talents, BAFTA's Rising Star award, has just announced its five contenders for 2017 honors: Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth), Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country), Tessa Thompson (Thor Ragnarok), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird).

There was last month's Lady Bird (A24), Greta Gerwig's debut as a solo director, in which he plays a shaggy - haired guitar player so dreamy that star Saoirse Ronan's character puts her identity on hold to spend time in his orbit.

Odeya Rush, one of the stars of «Lady Bird,» is staring in a new film, «Dear Dictator.»

Saoirse (23) is up for the Best Actress BAFTA for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age story Lady Bird but faces stiff competition from Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, Margot Robbie for I Tonya, and British actress Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.

She will take on Irish actress Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird, Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Margot Robbie for I, Tonya.

Oscar - nominated movies Lady Bird and Brooklyn, both starring the talented Saoirse Ronan in lead roles, are love letters to nostalgia and a cultural, personal past.

The 23 - year - old Carlow native was up for the gong for her role in Lady Bird and she was snapped smiling and laughing with director Greta Gerwig and I, Tonya star Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

They were part of a bumper crop of best actress hopefuls at the fest this year, which also included Annette Bening in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» trans actress Daniela Vega in «A Fantastic Woman» and Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» (perhaps the overall highlight of the fest and a scrappy contender for distributor A24 in the wake of «Moonlight's» success).

Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in Call Me by Your Name.

Other powerful performances by women that should not be forgotten during nominations are Annette Bening's dead - on turn as Gloria Grahame in «Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool,» Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in «Lady Bird»; Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in «I, Tonya,» the young new - to - acting Brooklynn Prince in «The Florida Project,» and Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige in «Mudbound.»

Other stars that stepped out for the event include singer Halsey, Midnight Sun «s Patrick Schwarzenegger, Lady Bird «s Lucas Hedges, The Daily Show «s Trevor Noah, rapper 21 Savage, fashion influencer Luka Sabbat, social media influencer Cameron Dallas, actor Hopper Penn, baseball player Matt Harvey, filmmaker Lee Daniels, and reality star EJ Johnson.

Hedges recently starred in Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird.»

Meanwhile, Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk are also among the most celebrated movies with eight nominations a piece, ahead of I, Tonya with five nominations, Call Me by Your Name and Phantom Thread with four, and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Lady Bird and Paddington 2 all with three.

In between Roseanne and an upcoming episode of the CW's Supergirl — which she is guest - starring in so her youngest child can meet her idol Melissa Benoist — Metcalf is girding herself for what is sure to be a whirlwind of Oscar - season press and events to talk about Lady Bird.

Saoirse Ronan (left) and Laurie Metcalf star in «Lady Bird,» one of two highly personal films nominated as best picture.