Greta Gerwig Nominated for Best Director Oscar

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins may have been snubbed by the Oscars, but at least the nominating committee had a low-budget, critically-adored, female-directed movie to take up the slack. Greta Gerwig was nominated for Best Director for her work on Lady Bird, the indie actress' directorial debut, marking the first time since 2010 that a woman was nominated for the award. The four other male nominees this year include Guillermo del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson, whose The Shape of Water and Phantom Thread, respectively, went virtually unnoticed by mass audiences at the box office.

Via Us Weekly.

At the Golden Globes, five men were nominated for best director. That’s not the case for this year’s Academy Awards, thanks to Greta Gerwig at Lady Bird’s helm. When the nominees were announced on Tuesday, January 23, Gerwig became the first woman nominated for best director in five years. The last was Kathryn Bigelow for directing The Hurt Locker — and she became the only woman to ever win the award in 2010.

Gerwig, 34, previously landed a Directors Guild nomination, as well as a Critics’ Choice nomination for Lady Bird. The National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review also named her best director. At the Oscars, she’s up against four men: Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) and Jordan Peele (Get Out).

Lady Bird also earned four other nominations, including best picture, best actress in a leading role (Saiorse Ronan), best actress in a supporting role (Laurie Metcalfe) and best original screenplay. The film was Gerwig’s directorial debut, and she now hopes to continue down that path.

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