Sentences with phrase «women directors nominated»

I am equally proud that this year I am one of two women directors nominated in this category, which until now only had 4 women nominated out of 72 directors nominated.

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Daniels — an Oscar - nominated writer and director, as well as the co-creator of Empire, a hit series that airs on Fox — reportedly accused Penn of domestic violence while discussing Empire star Terrence Howard's history of physical abuse toward women.

The ISS study — which looked at directors nominated by dissidents and by the boards themselves in response to activism — found that women made up 8.4 percent of this group, compared with 25 percent of new directors at all S&P 1500 companies in 2015.

She also received a nominations from The Golden Globes, and took home no less than two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director (another prize that had never before gone to a woman), beating out ex-husband James Cameron, who was nominated for his CG juggernaut Avatar.

There weren't nearly as many as men, despite the historic nominations for Greta Gerwig (the fifth woman nominated for best director) and Rachel Morrison («Mudbound»), the first woman nominated for best cinematography.

For all of the times the Academy has nominated films directed by women for Best Picture, the directors have declined except for four times: Lina Wertmuller in 1976, Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2002, and Kathryn Bigelow in 2009.

(Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank) Thanks to ladylurks, who points out that 3 of the 5 nominated directors are women.

If Rees is nominated for either a DGA or an Oscar for Best Director, she will be the first woman of color to do so in their entire history.

The school is so proud of Gerwig, who is only the fifth woman nominated for Best Director, that A24's official «Lady Bird» poster is mounted in the school's administrative office along with a crucifix and a photo of the pope.

And it's captured by Coogler's Fruitvale Station director of photography, Rachel Morrison, who just made history by becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work on Dee Rees's Mudbound.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance «The Shape of Water» fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and «Mudbound» cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history...

director Dee Rees will likely be seen as a best director snub, but she is nominated for best adapted screenplay - the only woman in the category this year.

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.

Greta Gerwig is also up for best director, only the fifth woman nominated in Oscar history.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

No women nominated for Best Director Much has been written about the underrepresentation of women in the Best Director categories for the Oscars — but the Globes have never been much better than their awards season partner.

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.

Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in Oscars history to be nominated for best director on Tuesday, and she also picked up a nomination for best original screenplay for «Lady Bird.»

And «Mudbound» director Dee Rees shares a nomination with Virgil Williams for adapted screenplay, making her the first black woman to be nominated for the award.

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.

In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.

In fact, not a single woman was nominated in the director category.

Remember, although the Academy snubbed them, the Globes went with both Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and Ava DuVernay (Selma) for Best Director when they were up, which makes them more likely to nominate a woman.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance The Shape of Water fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated for best director and Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.

SAT: Jordan Peele is the fifth Black director to be nominated for best director, while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

In fact, it has happened often, not just with women also nominated for Best Director but certainly with Best Picture.

Films including Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Dee Rees» Mudbound have been hotly - tipped — but not a single woman was nominated in the best director category

Nevertheless, the fact that the latter's filmmaker, Greta Gerwig, was the first woman ever to get a best director nod her first time out and was the first female nominated in the category in eight years was also significant.

Gerwig became only the fifth woman nominated in the director category.

-- Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated as director for helming «Lady Bird,» joining Lina Wertmuller for «Seven Beauties» (1976), Jane Campion for «The Piano» (1993), Sofia Coppola for «Lost in Translation» (2003) and Kathryn Bigelow (2009) for «The Hurt Locker.»

In the past 20 years, only three women have been nominated for best director at the Golden Globes, while just one woman has won the Oscar (Bigelow with The Hurt Locker in 2010).

Vying for their first nods are Danish Dan Laustsen for Guillermo del Toro's lush»60s romantic fantasy - thriller, «The Shape of Water,» Dutch Hoyte Van Hoytema (BAFTA - nominated for «Interstellar» and «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») for his 65 mm photography on Christopher Nolan's World War II epic «Dunkirk,» and Rachel Morrison, who is the first woman to break into the ranks of nominated directors of photography for Dee Rees» southern epic «Mudbound.»

Gerwig is, shamefully, only the fifth woman to be nominated for best director in the Oscars» 90 - year history.

Best Director featured Mexican director Alejandro G. Inarritu alongside four white men (Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Bennett Miller, and Morten Tyldum) but overlooked Ava DuVernay, who would have been the first African American woman ever nominated in the cDirector featured Mexican director Alejandro G. Inarritu alongside four white men (Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Bennett Miller, and Morten Tyldum) but overlooked Ava DuVernay, who would have been the first African American woman ever nominated in the cdirector Alejandro G. Inarritu alongside four white men (Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Bennett Miller, and Morten Tyldum) but overlooked Ava DuVernay, who would have been the first African American woman ever nominated in the category.

Can she become the first black woman nominated for Best Director Oscar?

«A Fantastic Woman» (Chile) U.S. distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Synopsis: With seven feature length films under his belt, Chilean director Sebastián Leilo finally got major international awards attention with «A Fantastic Woman,» the first of his works to be nominated for an Oscar.

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

OscarWrap: «I had a sense of wanting to make a story centered around a young woman that did not include whether she would end up with this boy as the central question,» says Oscar - nominated writer - director

She's about to become the first ever African American women nominated in Best Director for 2014's Selma, so that's worth celebrating for sure.

Gerwig is the only the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars, so fans thought that she could score a dark horse win for the historic nod, if not for original screenplay.

Had its director been nominated, it would have made her the first black woman to be so.

Sarah nominates her post from last August about Natalie Portman's experience as a director and the «language that women use to disguise their assertiveness».

Justice League not being nominated for any Oscars probably isn't a big surprise, but Warner Bros. campaigned hard for Wonder Woman in many of the major categories, including Best Picture and Best Director.

When you collate these wins and nominations (just in the last 14 years, let me remind you) to women nominated for Best Director in the narrative - feature category, the disparities are embarrassing and ignoble.

Selma will likely continue to ascend the box office when it opens wide this week, especially with its awards buzz and Ava DuVernay becoming the first African - American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe.

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.»

No women of color have ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar.

Ava DuVernay became the first black woman with a film nominated for Best PIcture with Selma in 2014, but she was not nominated for Best Director — though she absolutely should have been.