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Actress Greta Gerwig (Jackie and 20th Century Women), fresh from directing a film called Lady Bird, sought to get a different lens on things by shadowing Leibovitz throughout the day.

Greta Gerwig makes her solo - directing debut with an autobiographical movie called Lady Bird, a comedy that follows a teenager in her senior year of high school.

It is ironic that a movie called Lady Bird is opening the exact same day next week as Rob Reiner's new LBJ, but while that really fine film is definitely about President Lyndon Johnson, Lady Bird is NOT about his First Lady even though the name is the same.

Save her stubborn, overworked mother, Christine has trained all of her friends and family to call her Lady Bird, a sobriquet that straddles the line between dignity and cutesy appeal.

(Gerwig went to a Catholic high school in Sacramento in 2002 and attended college in New York; no word if she made her friends call her Lady Bird, not that it would come as a surprise.)

Ronan plays Christine McPherson, a senior at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California, in 2002 who longs to go to college in New York and makes her friends and family call her Lady Bird.

Rolling Stone call Lady Bird a «perfect movie», while the BBC claim «it offers an eloquent, fresh voice from a thoroughly accomplished film - maker.»

The film follows Ronan as 17 - year - old Christine McPherson, who'd rather you call her Lady Bird: when asked if it's her given name, she clarifies: «It's given to me, by me.»

Her frustrated mother (Laurie Metcalf diving into her beefiest role in a long time) tries to accommodate her daughter by calling her Lady Bird, but slips to «Christine» during those moments when her begotten grinds her nerves, which is often.

diving into her beefiest role in a long time) tries to accommodate her daughter by calling her Lady Bird, but slips to «Christine» during those moments when her begotten grinds her nerves, which is often.

The coming - of - age comedy, which comes out in the UK in early 2018, concerns a year and a half in the life of Christine, a loquacious teen who insists that everyone should call her Lady Bird.

Christine calls herself Lady Bird perhaps to frustrate her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), a woman who — we learn later — genuinely loves her only daughter but is unable to express her feelings except in writing.

You couldn't exactly call Lady Bird a model student, «bad animal» is more like it.

Christine (Saoirse Ronan), a teenager attending a Catholic school in Sacramento, insisting that everyone call her Lady Bird.

Though Greta Gerwig wrote Lady Bird with a heavy dose of inspiration from her own high - school experience, she was getting nowhere with the central character until two lines suddenly hit her: «Why won't you call me Lady Bird?

Long before the character had begun to take shape, she said, Lady Bird's philosophy was summed up by a quote that sprang into Gerwig's head: «I remember I just wrote at the top of the page, «Why won't you call me Lady Bird?

Not exact matches

The Nominees: Call Me By You Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

«Call Me by Your Name» «Darkest Hour» «Dunkirk» «Get Out» «Lady Bird» «Phantom Thread» «The Post» «The Shape of Water» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»

It gives me the heebie jeebies to think that I might have to explain the birds and bees to my son... my little darling who still occasionally calls me Mommy, still wants to snuggle when we watch TV and still manages to hang onto a good amount of innocence in this Lady Gaga world.

I then had a call from a lovely lady who had recently opened a gift shop on the quay in Exeter and had been told about my birds.

The ladies loved it too, even with Aaron calling me «bird lady» all afternoon.

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

Scott Rudin had produced that, and he was producing a movie called «Lady Bird» that Greta Gerwig was writing and directing.

Yet «Get Out,» like «Lady Bird» and «Call Me by Your Name,» wasn't a spectacle, and it has often been spectacle that wins big.

The positives: prestige films from Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to The Shape of Water, NEON / 30West's I, Tonya, A24's The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and The Florida Project, Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me By Your Name and others have been performing strongly at the box office.

I'm simply pointing out that in a year that's supposed to be about defining new ways of seeing, «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» and «Call Me by Your Name» were all — to me — vastly superior movies than «The Shape of Water.»

BEST PICTURE The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water - Winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

We expect there Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, and The Florida Project to lead the nominations.

Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name stand out for being the least overtly political of all of the nominees, but that might work in their favor.

The nominees are «Call Me By Your Name,» «Darkest Hour,» «Dunkirk,» «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» «Phantom Thread,» «The Post,» «The Shape of Water,» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

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The supporting cast includes Wes Studi as Chief Yellow Hawk, Ben Foster and Timothee Chalamet (who's having quite a year with this along with his work in «Lady Bird» and his Oscar - nominated performance in «Call Me by Your Name»).

Best Picture Three Billboards — Clarence Moye, Marshall Flores Dunkirk — Sasha Stone Lady Bird — Jazz Tangcay Call Me By Your Name — Ryan Adams

Best Motion Picture Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

by Bill Chambers In the interest of full disclosure, I've yet to see three of the major Academy Award ™ contenders, Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, or Phantom Thread.

Best Feature Call Me by Your Name Best Actress Saoirse Ronan as Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson — Lady Bird Best Actor James Franco as Tommy Wiseau — The Disaster Artist Audience Award Get Out Best Documentary Strong...

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With so many potential Oscar contenders like Get Out and Lady Bird being so very «American» we might see lower nomination totals for them and possibly higher totals for more European fare like Call Me By Your Name and distinctly UK productions like Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and Victoria and Abdul to do well and for the US / UK hybrid Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to make a killing here.

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Here, we in turn find the likes of Phantom Thread, Dunkirk, The Post, The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Florida Project all being awarded their own (fake) covers.

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

Get Out won over Call Me by Your Name, The Florida Project, Lady Bird and The Rider.

«Films like The Shape of Water, A Fantastic Woman, Lady Bird, and Call Me By Your Name not only have complex, detailed, and moving portrayals, but prove that audiences and critics alike are hungry for stories which embrace diversity.»

Best Film Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Spoilers: Get Out, Lady Bird, The Post

Top 10 in no particular order: Call Me By Your Name I, Tonya Get Out Lady Macbeth The Square Lady Bird Jane Faces Places Beach Rats The OA

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Nominees: «Call Me By Your Name,» «Darkest Hour,» «Dunkirk,» «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» «Phantom Thread,» «The Post, «The Shape of Water,» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Q: There are lots of other great characters in the movie, though, from the disappointing guys Lady Bird dates (played by «Call Me by Your Name's» Timothee Chalamet and «Manchester by the Sea's» Lucas Hedges) to her patient dad (Tracy Letts) to a cool school nun (Lois Smith) and more.

That prize was won by actor Timothée Chalamet, for his roles in Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird and his brief turn in Hostiles.