Friday, Jan. 26, 2024

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 76 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

Cue all the "did 'Barbie' direct itself" snark. But Greta Gerwig not being among the five best director nominees for this year's Oscars is one of the biggest shocks in recent memory. Here are some other major "snubs" and "surprises" from Oscar nomination morning.

GRETA GERWIG SHUT...

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024

The field of feature film nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2023 are Greta Gerwig for Barbie, Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things...

Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023

Greta Gerwig, actor, writer and film director, notably for the blockbuster "Barbie," will preside over the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, the first American female director to be named jury president, the festival announced Thursday.

At 40, Gerwig is also the youngest...

Monday, Dec. 11, 2023

Early honors in Hollywood's unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song's tender relationship drama "Past Lives," Jonathan Glazer's piercing Holocaust film "The Zone of Interest" and Martin Scorsese's sprawling Osage murders epic "Killers of the Flower Moon."

But a...

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023

Warner Bros. Pictures’ critically acclaimed Barbie, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig, will receive The Gotham Global Icon & Creator Tribute at the 33rd annual Gotham Awards Ceremony, taking place on Monday, November 27, 2023 at Cipriani Wall Street in New...

Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023

The American Film Institute (AFI) announced AFI Fest guest artistic director Greta Gerwig has revealed the five films she has curated for this year’s festival: All That Jazz, An American in Paris, A Matter of Life and Death, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Wings of Desire. The...

Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023

Oscar®-nominated filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig will serve as the guest artistic director at AFI Fest 2023. Gerwig most recently directed and co-wrote the global cultural phenomenon, Barbie, smashing box office records and receiving worldwide critical acclaim. In 2017, Gerwig made her...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023

Greta Gerwig should be feeling closer to fine these days. In just three weeks in theaters, "Barbie" is set to sail past $1 billion in global ticket sales, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins, who helmed "Wonder Woman."

"Barbie," which Gerwig...

Sunday, Jul. 23, 2023

“Barbenheimer ” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ” and Christopher Nolan’s “ Oppenheimer ” brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to...

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