The Golden Globes Majorly Snubs Female Directors For the 5th Consecutive Year

As Natalie Portmanonce said, here are the all male nominees.

The 2020 Golden Globe nominations were announced on Monday morning, and for the fifth consecutive year, no women have been nominated for Best Director.

The nominees for Best Director are Martin Scorsese for The Irishman, Todd Phillips for Joker, Sam Mendes for 1917, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite and Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood. All of those films were also nominated in the various Best Picture categories.

Despite their absence from the Best Director list, there were a wide range of noteworthy films directed by women this year, and many of them did receive nominations.

Little Women, directed by Greta Gerwig, and Harriet, directed by Kasi Lemmons, both snagged Best Actress, Drama, nominations for Saiorse Ronan and Cynthia Erivo, respectively. The Farewell, directed by Lulu Wang, is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and its star, Awkwafina, is nominated for Best Actress, Comedy/Musical.

The Fred Rogers biopic It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller, snagged a nomination for Tom Hanks. And Hustlers—one of the biggest box office hits of the year—directed by Lorene Scafaria landed Jennifer Lopez a Best Supporting Actress nomination.

Clearly, it was a year dominated with stories about women told by women. And yet, the last time a woman was nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes was in 2015, when Ava DuVernay was nominated for Selma. 

Barbra Streisand remains the only woman to ever win Best Director at the Golden Globes. She won for Yentl in 1984.

At the 2018 Golden Globes (the same year Portman shaded the Hollywood Foreign Press with her “all male nominees” line), Streisand criticized the award show for not honoring female directors more often.

Speaking of her historic win, she said, “That was 1984. That was 34 years ago. Folks, time’s up! We need more women directors and more women to be nominated for Best Director. There are so many films out there that are so good directed by women.”

Unfortunately, the world will have to continue to wait to see another woman win Best Director.

The 2020 Golden Globes will broadcast live on NBC on Jan. 5 starting at 8 p.m.

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