Sentences with phrase «fifth woman ever»

With her nomination on Tuesday morning for Lady Bird, she becomes only the fifth woman ever nominated for Best Director.

Reinforcing those broader trends, «Lady Bird» writer - director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to score a nomination for directing, while Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to score a nomination in that category and just the third person to receive best picture, directing and writing nominations for a debut feature.

The festival world is far ahead of the industry (only 8 of last year's top 100 films at the box office were directed by women) and the Academy Awards (where Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman ever nominated for best director this year).

If Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig is nominated for a Best Director Oscar on Tuesday, as she is expected to be, she will be only the fifth woman ever nominated.

Still in their 30s and up for directing Oscars (the fifth black man and fifth woman ever nominated), Peele and Gerwig are Hollywood's current darlings, its faces of the future.

Unlike the Golden Globes, the Oscars directing category wasn't mostly white and male, as Greta Gerwig was recognized for Lady Bird, Jordan Peele for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water Gerwig becomes the fifth woman ever nominated, and the first since Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) made history by winning in 2010.

Gerwig has also made history by becoming only the fifth woman ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best... Read more»

Gerwig has also made history by becoming only the fifth woman ever to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, where she was also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category.

I really hoped to talk a little more about the directors and having Greta Gerwig be only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for being best director.

Gerwig, scarcely credibly, is only the fifth woman ever to be shortlisted in the best director category at the Academy Awards in its 90 years.

Gerwig is just the fifth woman ever to be nominated for the award, and the first in eight years; she would be the second woman to win.

Yesterday, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards.

Oscar historians highlight another point: Gerwig is only the fifth woman ever nominated for best director.

The Oscar for Directing, meanwhile, will be contended not only by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water), but also by Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)-- the fifth woman ever nominated for Directing, and the first time in eight years that a woman has been included in the 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.

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A Grand Occasion While Serena Williams blitzed the women's field, Pete Sampras won his fifth U.S. Open and left no doubt that he's the greatest men's player ever

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

The video highlighted Greta Gerwig, the fifth woman to ever be nominated for best director, Yance Ford, the first transgender nominee for «Strong Island,» Dee Rees, whose «Mudbound» scored a historic cinematographer nomination and the Pakistan - born Kumail Nanjiani, nominated for «The Big Sick.»

Greta Gerwig, the director of Ronan's «Lady Bird», was only the fifth woman to be nominated for best director, while Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated for best cinematography, for «Mudbound».

Among racial strides: Jordan Peele is the fifth black Best Director nominee ever for «Get Out,» and Dee Rees, the first black woman to be up for Best Adapted Screenplay as the co-writer of «Mudbound.»