«Tech companies are helping redo central Market Street — it used to be our Skid Row,» San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told a packed
room at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference
in September, drawing
applause from the
crowd.
There was a lot of love
in the
room for first - timers, including Rachel Morrison — the first woman to be nominated
in the cinematography category, for her work on «Mudbound» — and «Get Out» director Jordan Peele, who both received prolonged
applause from the
crowd when their names were announced by Dern.