'Lady Bird' and 'The Post' Shut Out at the Oscars

Greta Gerwig had the chance to be only the second woman to win an Oscar for Best Director on Sunday, but she wasn't. Gerwig's film Lady Bird was nominated for five awards, but it took home zero awards. The same went for Steven Spielberg's political drama The Post.

Via The Hollywood Reporter.

Sunday's 90th annual Academy Awards might have been an exciting evening for those whose films won, but for those who worked on or were supporting Lady Bird, Mudbound or The Post, the evening was likely a disappointment.

Ladies of the hour on the #Oscars red carpet. #LadyBird

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None of those films won any of the Oscars for which they were nominated. Lady Bird went into the Oscars up for five awards, including best director (Greta Gerwig) and best picture, but the female-helmed and -focused film went home empty-handed despite the ceremony itself featuring a number of moments in which women in Hollywood were celebrated, including a presentation and video about the #MeToo and Time's Up movements. The film previously won at the Golden Globes and Film Independent Spirit Awards and was honored by numerous critics groups, including the National Society of Film Critics, which named the movie, about a high-school senior of the same name (Saoirse Ronan), as the best film of 2017. Gerwig had the chance to make history as only the second woman to win best director in Oscars history after being just the fifth female filmmaker nominated in the category.

With a total of 21 #OscarNoms Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer of all time. See her performance in #ThePost, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. #ThePost is now playing in theaters everywhere.

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For The Post, which was completed in just nine months, the Oscars was just the latest awards ceremony from which the Steven Spielberg-directed film about the Pentagon Papers, delivering a timely message of the importance of press freedom, went home empty-handed. It was previously shut out at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards and wasn't nominated for Writers Guild or Screen Actors Guild awards. The film, marking the first onscreen pairing of Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, was seen as somewhat of an Oscar shoo-in ahead of its release, and even at the top of the Golden Globes, where host Seth Meyers joked about the armloads full of awards it would win.

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