2019 was a milestone year for women in film. But the Best Director Oscar nominees were, yet again, all male
Photo: Getty Images The 92nd Academy Awards, announced this morning, were led by the usual slate of male directors and their movies. Todd Phillips led with 11 nominations for Joker, followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and Sam Mendes’s 1917, which tied with ten nominations each.
This is less surprising than it is disappointing, given that 2019 was a milestone year for women in film. Not only were there more women-made movies in 2019 than ever before, many of them were critically acclaimed and made a ton of money, with a dozen of the top-grossing 100 movies of 2019 directed by women.
“It’s incredibly upsetting,” Florence Pugh, who starred in the film and got a Best Supporting Actress nod, told EW on Monday. “[Gerwig] literally made a film about this,” she continued, “about women working and their relationship with money and their relationship with working in a man’s world … So [this] only underlines how important it is — because it’s happening.
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