Sentences with phrase «while lady bird»

While Lady Bird rebels, at one point dramatically flinging herself out of a moving car, «I was much more of a rule follower and a people pleaser,» Gerwig said.

But while Lady Bird took the top prize, Sean Baker's The Florida Project also made a strong showing with awards for director Sean Baker and Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, who also won that same award from the NBR on Tuesday.

Gerwig's shown a knack for bringing out Baumbach's madcap side in these films, and while Lady Bird is more subdued than those films, an anarchic heart beats at its core.

While Lady Bird won Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, beating out Get Out, I, Tonya, The Disaster Artist, and The Greatest Showman.

But if, say, Get Out wins Best Picture while Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig wins Best Director, we'll know predicting the Oscars as we did before Moonlight's win just might be out the window.

While Lady Bird never quite lives up to the comedic promise of that opening scene in the car, it does go on to deliver a steady stream of low - key humour, a little heart - break and some well timed pathos.

While Lady Bird's life at school, friendships, and romances are all wildly compelling, the beating heart of the film is her relationship with her mother (played by the astounding Laurie Metcalf), perhaps one of the most genuine on - screen mother - daughter relationships in years.

While Lady Bird revels in the hyper - specificities of suburban teenagehood in the early aughts (Dave Matthews Band songs, puka shell necklaces, TV news consumed by the burgeoning war in Iraq), it also waxes universal about young love and sex, class and mother - daughter dynamics, and the ever - shifting meaning of home.

Marion is deeply concerned with presentation, while Lady Bird (like many a teenager) often blurts out observations that come off as tactless or hurtful.

Best Picture (Drama) seems like a showdown between The Shape of Water and The Post, while Lady Bird and Get Out are the frontrunners in the comedy category.

Paul Thomas Anderson's tortured - clothing - designer tableau Phantom Thread was nominated in six categories but won only for costume design, while Lady Bird was up for five different Oscars and won none.

Fox Searchlight's The Shape of Water tops the nominations list with eleven nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay while Lady Bird earns nine nominations and Dunkirk earns eight.

As for the other hopefuls, Darkest Hour went over $ 55M, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri crossed $ 52M, while Lady Bird topped $ 48M and Phantom Thread went over $ 20M.

Not exact matches

To craft a space for self - care, Saoirse rented an apartment while she was in Los Angeles promoting Lady Bird instead of staying in a hotel.

Picked up and stashed under the stroller while running along Lady Bird Lake.

The owner of the company was part owner of my former sponsor Vital Strength, so while it may seem like I have «jumped ship» with my sponsorship, I have in fact remained loyal to the driving force and innovator from my previous sponsor in teaming up with Red Back and Lady Bird.

I've been thinking about this for a while but since I was invited, free of charge, to see / review the movie Lady Bird on Monday, it got me thinking and I wanted to explain my position.

While Gerwig and Baumbach's previous effort, «Frances Ha,» similarly explored complex female friendships and a main character earnestly struggling to grow as a human, «Mistress America» dips further into the New York groove and questionable creative endeavors that also mark «Lady Bird.»

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» won best drama at the Golden Globes, while «Lady Bird» won best comedy.

Ronan follows up her Lady Bird success with this period piece, while Bening, Stoll and Dennehy are also so good.

Gerwig herself has been open about the many films that inspired «Lady Bird» — she even programmed an entire series at NYC's Quad Cinema featuring a dozen films that she says helped fuel her creativity — and it while the list is peppered with some surprises, there's at least one coming - of - age classic that seems obvious: Howard Deutch's «Pretty in Pink.»

Ronan, who seems to grow into her lanky frame over the course of the film, nails the sense that Lady Bird's life is a tendentious war between her ego and increasing sense of the world around her, while Metcalf masters Marion's inability to erase her frustration at her inability to be selfish or impulsive.

Darkest Hour's Gary Oldman and Call Me by Your Name's Timothée Chalamet are also up for Best Actor, while I, Tonya's Allison Janney and Lady Bird «s Laurie Metcalf compete for Best Supporting Actress.

Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announces Its Inaugural Year's Nominations: Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads with 11 nominations while Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird lands in second place with nine and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk in third with eight.

In addition, the inaugural Steve Friedman Award, meant to honor «a person or film that drives major public discourse on a topic or issue,» has been presented to Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman, while the Elaine May Award, for a deserving person or film that brings awareness to women's issues, was presented to Lady Bird.

«Lady Bird» and «Get Out» have received nominations for SAG's Best Cast award and the WGA's Original Screenplay award, while «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» has also been nominated for SAG's Best Cast (and would have no doubt been nominated by the WGA if it weren't for their asinine rules that disqualified it).

The commanding work of Jessica Chastain in «Molly's Game» and Frances McDormand in «Three Billboards...» also shared the Best Actress award, while Sam Rockwell's complex work in «Three Billboards» and Laurie Metcalf's layered turn in «Lady Bird» won in the supporting acting categories.

Lady Bird Rated R for language, sexual content, brief graphic nudity and teen partying Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99 % Available on Disc and Streaming While it's hard to pinpoint and describe the actual plot of Lady Bird, it's easy to describe it as one of the best movies of 2017.

«Lady Bird» — This smart, tender coming - of - age tale nimbly captures the spirit of teenage angst, so wonderfully, fully realized in Saoirse Ronan's Oscar - quality performance as a teen in her last year of high school navigating the tumultuous waters of romance and self - realization while also butting heads with her equally strong - willed mother (an astounding Laurie Metcalf).

In their respective performances in I, Tonya and Lady Bird, these performers embodied two of the most memorable mothers in modern cinema, and took two totally different approaches: Janney was all delicious high camp and toxic bluster, while Metcalf created a subtle, close - to - the - vest performance of a mother whose love expresses itself in disapproval.

Ahead of del Toro's acceptance speech, category presenter Emma Stone repeated Natalie Portman's killer Golden Globes jab by highlighting the fact that four nominees were male while just one was female (Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig)

The comedy «Lady Bird» had 55 % of its sales come by way of Blu - ray, while the documentary series «Blue Planet II» had 75 % and «The Man Who Invented Christmas» had 46 %.

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.

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.

While Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» snagged nominations in the Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Picture categories, the director herself was shut out.

, Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), and Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game), while the newbies are Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Mary J. Blige (Mudbound - finally arriving on Netflix today!)

The film nominees include Battle of the Sexes, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game and The Post, while Big Little Lies, Feud: Bette and Joan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and SMILF were recognized in the TV categories.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» the wise, warm story about a young woman finding and asserting herself while dealing with her conflicted feelings toward a mother she can never seem to please, then you know that Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, has a keen eye for detail.

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.

«Lady Bird» filmmaker Greta Gerwig was named Best Women Director and Screenwriter, while «Mudbound» casting directors Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram won the Best Ensemble award.

Morgan Freeman was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's show, while movies like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird, and TV shows like The Crown and Game of Thrones were nominated for big awards.

I wanted that new adventure, but had to leave my family,» she said while taking the Lady Bird tour with her mother, Mary Jane Lombardi.

Morgan Freeman is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday, while the casts of The Big Sick, Get Out, Lady Bird, Mudbound and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, are all nominated on the film side.

A24's Lady Bird is second for the year with a $ 91,109 opening average, while Amazon Studios / Lionsgate's The Big Sick is third with $ 84,315.

Greta Gerwig's teen comedy, Lady Bird, won Best Motion Picture and Best Actress for a comedy or musical, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri secured awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the Drama category.

While much of «Lady Bird» is light and at times genuinely funny, there's a certain sophistication that keeps it from veering into TV Sitcom Land.

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird won Best Motion Picture for a comedy or musical, while the film's lead Saoirse Ronan won the Best Actress award.

But Get Out, which won Best Original Screenplay, was a constant threat to Best Picture, while Dunkirk and Lady Bird could not be ruled out for either that or the Best Director prize.

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.

One of Ronan's favorite moments making «Lady Bird» came while shooting the prom scene, because in Ireland prom doesn't exist — there are only debutante balls, she says.