While Gerwig may not have landed a director nomination, neither did many female directors, with “Anatomy of a Fall’s” Justine Triet the solitary woman among the six. This is an area that BAFTA sought to improve with the major overhaul of its voting process in 2020 (following a year where zero female directors were nominated), which added the Longlist stage that included an intervention to ensure gender parity.
“But we know it’s not a fair race from the start,” says Higgs, who points to recent research showing that, of the top 100 grossing films of the last year, only 12 were directed by women. “For every three film submitted directed by a man, we only have one film submitted directed by a woman. So to see a woman in that nominations list is a really good thing.”
But she points to huge positives elsewhere, including four women directors in the outstanding British films category: Molly Manning Walker (“How to Have Sex”), Raine Allen Miller (“Rye Lane”), Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn”) and Charlotte Regan (“Scrapper”).
Are they serious???
What is with this movie acting so entitled as if they’re owed award recognition. They made a toy movie in cahoots with a major corporation, it’s not honorable, it’s not special. The movie was a superficial as the toys themselves, I’m sick of hearing about this movie.
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While Gerwig may not have landed a director nomination, neither did many female directors, with “Anatomy of a Fall’s” Justine Triet the solitary woman among the six. This is an area that BAFTA sought to improve with the major overhaul of its voting process in 2020 (following a year where zero female directors were nominated), which added the Longlist stage that included an intervention to ensure gender parity.
“But we know it’s not a fair race from the start,” says Higgs, who points to recent research showing that, of the top 100 grossing films of the last year, only 12 were directed by women. “For every three film submitted directed by a man, we only have one film submitted directed by a woman. So to see a woman in that nominations list is a really good thing.”
But she points to huge positives elsewhere, including four women directors in the outstanding British films category: Molly Manning Walker (“How to Have Sex”), Raine Allen Miller (“Rye Lane”), Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn”) and Charlotte Regan (“Scrapper”).
Are they serious???
What is with this movie acting so entitled as if they’re owed award recognition. They made a toy movie in cahoots with a major corporation, it’s not honorable, it’s not special. The movie was a superficial as the toys themselves, I’m sick of hearing about this movie.