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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association fail to nominate any female directors ( again ) for the 2020Golden Globes . One of the big - if notthebiggest - harbinger to the annualAcademy Awards , the Golden Globes are famous for being the first major awards show out of the gate every year . That will once again be the case in 2020 , when Ricky Gervais serves as host ( for the 5th and supposedly net time ) for the ceremonial ’s 77th looping near the top of January . With less than four workweek to go until then , the nominees in film , TV , and modified series were announce this dayspring .
For the big part , there are n’t any surprising competitor among the nominees in 2020 . Much discussed movies like Martin Scorsese’sThe Irishmanand Noah Baumbach’sMarriage Story(both of which are Netflix Originals ) squeeze up several nominations on the motion picture side , even as Netflix and HBO command the television side of thing with major nods for show or special series likeSuccession , The Crown , andChernobyl . However , there were also a lot of snubs that stuck out like a huffy quarter round - not least of all , when it fare to the nominee for directing in film .
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Although Baumbach failed to guarantee a direct nomination forMarriage Story , Scorsese was recognized for his efforts onThe IrishmanalongsideBong Joon - ho forParasite , Sam Mendes for1917 , Quentin Tarantino forOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood , and Todd Phillips forJoker . As a result , there was n’t a single female director nominated by the HFPA at the 2020 observance . There ’ve only been five women nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes total since they began in 1944 ( Natalie Portman famously called out the family for being historically all - male candidate during the 2018 Golden Globes ceremonial ) , but it ’s still an egregious oversight when - once again - there were mint of deserving female campaigner to choose from .
Like any devote yr , there ’ve been several critically - applaud films directed by woman in 2019 . Lulu Wang , for example , was heavily praised for conform her literal - life story experiences into the tonic balancing act that isThe Farewell , and her work was strong enough to land the pic a nomination in the non - English language category at the 2020 Golden world , even though she , herself , was not agnize . Meanwhile , Olivia Wilde made a splattering with her feature - distance helming debut on the raunchy come of age comedyBooksmart , and even directed the film ’s mavin , Beanie Feldstein , to an work nod at the Golden Globes ( as did Wang with Awkwafina onThe Farewell ) , yet terminate up being snubbed by the HFPA . Both Lorene Scafaria and Marielle Heller similarly directed actors to Golden Globe nominations with their respective true floor based offeringsHustlersandA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood , but that was n’t enough to land them some realisation , either .
Of naturally , that leaning is far from all - cover . Greta Gerwig’sLittle Womenis generate serious award buzz ahead of its December release and secured a Golden Globe nod for Saoirse Ronan ’s public presentation , but Gerwig herself was cut for her focus ( much like she was this time two years ago , forLady Bird ) . Elsewhere , Alma Har’el and Melina Matsoukas made well - experience non - documental feature debuts onHoney BoyandQueen & Slimin November , yet neither they nor their movies ' actors made the cold shoulder in any of the categories at the 2020 Golden Globes . And while Kasi Lemmons ' biopicHarrietearned a more tepid reception , her work behind the photographic camera was good enough to snag virtuoso Cynthia Erivo an pretend nod , but nothing for the filmmaker herself .
Obviously , this is n’t to take anything away from the male directors whowerenominated for Golden Globes ( all of whom did okay body of work of their own ) , nor to suggest all of these cleaning woman are equally worth of a nod . Nevertheless , this is a bad look for the HFPA , especially given how many female music director did a terrific Book of Job bringing captivating and compelling story to the large CRT screen over these last twelve months … and yet , there was n’t a stain in the directing class for even one of them .
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The77th Annual Golden Globe Awardsair hold up on Sunday , January 5 , 2020 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC .
