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68-499: Greta Celeste Gerwig ( / ˈ ɡ ɜːr w ɪ ɡ / GUR -wig ; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. Initially known for working on various mumblecore films, she has since expanded from acting in and co-writing independent films to directing major studio films. Gerwig was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2018. Gerwig began her career working with Joe Swanberg on films such as Hannah Takes

136-617: A low budget , which has ranged from several thousand to several million dollars as well as low production values. Filming is done in real places, as opposed to studio sets or sound stages . Many of these films are shot digitally, although Bujalski's films have all been shot on film. Soundtracks tend to be limited, or nonexistent. Mumblecore films tend to revolve around characters in their twenties and early thirties who are usually single, white, and fairly aimless in both their professional and personal lives. Plots are often concerned with difficulties in romantic relationships, exacerbated by

204-482: A murder mystery play which is the longest-running West End show , it has by far the longest run of any play in the world, with its 29,500th performance having taken place as of February 2024. Contemporary playwrights in the United States are affected by recent declines in theatre attendance. No longer the only outlet for serious drama or entertaining comedies, theatrical productions must use ticket sales as

272-499: A cinematic style that often seems opposed to the very idea of style." "She seems to be embarked on a project," Scott wrote, "however piecemeal and modestly scaled, of redefining just what it is we talk about when we talk about acting." In 2010, Gerwig made her first talk show appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! From 2011 to 2015, she voiced Pony, one of the main characters in the Adult Swim animated series China, IL . In 2011, she

340-512: A form of playwright. Outside of the Western world there is Indian classical drama , with one of the oldest known playwrights being Śudraka , whose attributed plays can be dated to the second century BC. The Nāṭya Shāstra , a text on the performing arts from between 500BC-500AD, categorizes playwrights as being among the members of a theatre company, although playwrights were generally the highest in social status, with some being kings. In

408-412: A key figure in the rising mumblecore film movement and was often referred to as an " it girl ". Despite her consistent association with the movement, Gerwig dislikes the term "mumblecore", and has defended the style by saying, "People had gotten used to a version of a movie at a film festival that was like a calling-card for the real movie you were going to make later. What was different about these movies

476-612: A landscape architect; and a sister, a manager at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . Gerwig has German ancestry. Gerwig was raised a Unitarian Universalist . She attended St. Francis High School , an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento, and graduated in 2002. She has described herself as having been "an intense child." Gerwig showed an early interest in dance and later took up competitive fencing but had to quit, in part due to

544-559: A more conventional cinematic approach. For this reason, films made since 2010 or so that retain an emphasis on naturalistic dialogue and plot are sometimes referred to as "post-mumblecore". People who have been labelled as "post-mumblecore" include Amy Seimetz , Sean Price Williams , Alex Karpovsky , Alex Ross Perry and Kate Lyn Sheil . The big-budget films Magic Mike ( 2012 ) and its sequel Magic Mike XXL ( 2015 ) have been described as having mumblecore elements due to their use of naturalistic dialogue. Some TV series, including

612-419: A person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses

680-654: A playwright, winning awards for his play The Phoenix at both the New York International Fringe Festival in 1999 and the Route 66 American Playwriting Competition in 2000. Today, theatre companies have new play development programs meant to develop new American voices in playwriting. Many regional theatres have hired dramaturges and literary managers in an effort to showcase various festivals for new work, or bring in playwrights for residencies. Funding through national organizations, such as

748-593: A recreated dive bar, noted that "the film may be the first-ever in a new 'stumblecore' genre, a risky fusion of indie-mumblecore and on-camera drunkenness." Mumblecore has not always been a strictly American phenomenon. Since about 2009, the Berlin Mumblecore movement has had its own manifesto, Sehr gutes Manifest . Berlin Mumblecore is not a reaction to the American hype so much as it is a reaction to

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816-531: A solo filmmaker, Gerwig has written and directed coming-of-age films Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), and the fantasy-comedy Barbie (2023), all of which earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture . For Lady Bird , she received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay , and for Little Women , she was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay . Barbie , which she co-wrote with Baumbach, became

884-525: A source of income, which has caused many of them to reduce the number of new works being produced. For example, Playwrights Horizons produced only six plays in the 2002–03 seasons, compared with thirty-one in 1973–74. Playwrights commonly encounter difficulties in getting their shows produced and often cannot earn a living through their plays alone, leading them to take up other jobs to supplement their incomes. Many playwrights are also film makers . For instance, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock began his career as

952-562: A stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century. The neoclassical ideal, which was to reach its apogee in France during the 17th century, dwelled upon the unities , of action, place, and time. This meant that the playwright had to construct the play so that its "virtual" time would not exceed 24 hours, that it would be restricted to a single setting, and that there would be no subplots. Other terms, such as verisimilitude and decorum, circumscribed

1020-632: Is Hans Sachs (1494–1576) who wrote 198 dramatic works. In England, The Second Shepherds' Play of the Wakefield Cycle is the best known early farce. However, farce did not appear independently in England until the 16th century with the work of John Heywood (1497–1580). Playwright William Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Most playwrights of

1088-531: Is a key feature of almost all mumblecore films. Early mumblecore films tended to feature non-professional actors; however, later films have had more professional actors, including major stars such as Anna Kendrick ( Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas ) and Orlando Bloom ( Digging for Fire ). Some mumblecore films feature a prominent use of improvisation, with the cast sharing script credits, though some, like Andrew Bujalski 's films, are mostly scripted. Mumblecore films are generally produced with

1156-457: Is generally considered to be the first mumblecore film. The 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival screened a number of other films that came to be considered part of the mumblecore movement, including Bujalski's second film, Mutual Appreciation ; The Puffy Chair , by Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass ; and Kissing on the Mouth , by Joe Swanberg . That festival was also the origin of

1224-542: Is still useful to playwrights today is the " French scene ", which is a scene in a play where the beginning and end are marked by a change in the makeup of the group of characters onstage rather than by the lights going up or down or the set being changed. Notable playwrights: Greek theater was alive and flourishing on the island of Crete. During the Cretan Renaissance two notable Greek playwrights Georgios Chortatzis and Vitsentzos Kornaros were present in

1292-815: The 2015 Toronto International Film Festival , opening to positive reviews. The film was also screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and the 66th Berlin International Film Festival . Peter Bradshaw compared Gerwig's performance to that of Annie Hall and described the movie as being, "a witty [and] sharp comedy". That same year, Gerwig played supporting roles as White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman in Pablo Larraín 's drama film Jackie , and Abigail Porter in Mike Mills ' coming-of-age comedy 20th Century Women , earning acclaim for both performances, particularly her work in

1360-505: The 90th Academy Awards , it was nominated for Best Picture , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Gerwig, Best Actress for Ronan, and Best Supporting Actress for Metcalf. With the nominations announced, Gerwig became the fifth woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Director. When she found out about the nominations, Gerwig said she was "in various states of laughing and crying and yelling with joy." In 2018, following

1428-494: The Ancient Greeks . William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. The word "play" is from Middle English pleye , from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright ). The words combine to indicate

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1496-406: The Ancient Greeks . These early plays were for annual Athenian competitions among play writers held around the 5th century BC. Such notables as Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes established forms still relied on by their modern counterparts. We have complete texts extant by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides . The origins of Athenian tragedy remain obscure, though by

1564-588: The Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywood 's definitive screen actresses of her generation. In 2018, her nomination for Best Director at the 90th Academy Awards for Lady Bird made her the first woman in eight years (and one of only five women in Oscar history) to have been nominated in that category. Gerwig's work on Lady Bird was nominated for sixteen awards in notable circuits, winning six of those awards. Mumblecore Naturalism – both in performance and dialogue –

1632-508: The HBO series Girls (2012), Looking (2014) and Togetherness (2015), Euphoria (2019), and the Netflix series Easy (2017) have been called mumblecore-inspired, or, in the words of one critic, "mumbleshows". Horror films using mumblecore techniques have resulted in the term "mumblegore." Films that have been described as "mumblegore" include Baghead ( 2008 ), The House of

1700-536: The Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. The production earned mixed reviews but her performance was praised by many including Ben Brantley of The New York Times who wrote, "Ms. Gerwig uses the off-balance, open-faced presence she brought to films like Frances Ha and Greenberg to hook us from the moment we set eyes on her." He added, "Gerwig turns out to be the perfect person to ride right over

1768-624: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Theatre Communications Group , encouraged the partnerships of professional theatre companies and emerging playwrights. Playwrights will often have a cold reading of a script in an informal sitdown setting, which allows them to evaluate their own plays and the actors performing them. Cold reading means that the actors haven't rehearsed the work, or may be seeing it for

1836-488: The 2001 BBC reality-TV-style mockumentary series The Office . Another often-cited influence on mumblecore is the profusion of cheaper filmmaking technology starting in the early 2000s, such as the Panasonic AG-DVX100 video camera, and desktop video editing software such as Final Cut Pro . Bujalski has been described as the "Godfather of Mumblecore". His 2002 directorial debut, Funny Ha Ha ,

1904-449: The 4th century BCE, Aristotle wrote his Poetics , in which he analyzed the principle of action or praxis as the basis for tragedy. He then considered elements of drama: plot ( μύθος mythos ), character ( ἔθος ethos ), thought ( dianoia ), diction ( lexis ), music ( melodia ), and spectacle ( opsis ). Since the myths on which Greek tragedy were based were widely known, plot had to do with

1972-543: The 5th century it was institutionalised in competitions ( agon ) held as part of festivities celebrating Dionysos (the god of wine and fertility ). As contestants in the City Dionysia's competition (the most prestigious of the festivals to stage drama), playwrights were required to present a tetralogy of plays (though the individual works were not necessarily connected by story or theme), which usually consisted of three tragedies and one satyr play. For

2040-578: The Devil ( 2009 ), Entrance ( 2011 ), You're Next ( 2011 ), V/H/S ( 2012 ), The Sacrament ( 2013 ), and Creep ( 2014 ). Directors associated with mumblegore cinema include Swanberg and Duplass, as well as Adam Wingard , Roxanne Benjamin , Ben Wheatley , the trio Radio Silence , Patrick Brice , Patrick Horvath , and Ti West . A review of the independent quasi-documentary Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets , in which actors were served real alcohol and filmed interacting in improvised scenes in

2108-561: The Middle Ages, the earliest of which is The Play of the Greenwood by Adam de la Halle in 1276. It contains satirical scenes and folk material such as faeries and other supernatural occurrences. Farces also rose dramatically in popularity after the 13th century. The majority of these plays come from France and Germany and are similar in tone and form, emphasizing sex and bodily excretions. The best known playwright of farces

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2176-611: The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and the end of the 17th century, classical ideas were in vogue. As a result, critics of the time mostly rated Shakespeare below John Fletcher and Ben Jonson. This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn . As a reaction to the decadence of Charles II era productions, sentimental comedy grew in popularity. Playwrights like Colley Cibber and Richard Steele believed that humans were inherently good but capable of being led astray. The Italian Renaissance brought about

2244-715: The Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008). She has collaborated with her husband Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010) and Frances Ha (2012), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Mistress America (2015), and White Noise (2022). She also acted in such films as Whit Stillman 's Damsels in Distress (2011), Woody Allen 's To Rome with Love (2012), Rebecca Miller 's Maggie's Plan (2015), Pablo Larraín 's Jackie (2016), Mike Mills ' 20th Century Women (2016), and Wes Anderson 's Isle of Dogs (2018). As

2312-476: The Stairs, Funny Ha Ha, Kissing on the Mouth, The Puffy Chair, Dance Party USA, Quiet City, Hohokam, Team Picture, Mutual Appreciation, LOL, and Quietly On By, as well as the first season of Joe Swanberg and Kris Williams' web series Young American Bodies and a collection of short films dubbed "Mumbleshorts." Some critics have stated that mumblecore ended around 2010, as the original crop of directors began making films with larger budgets, more diverse storylines, and

2380-420: The ancient Greeks, playwriting involved poïesis , "the act of making". This is the source of the English word poet . Despite Chinese Theatre having performers dated back to the 6th century BC with You Meng , their perspective of theatre was such that plays had no other role than "performer" or "actor", but given that the performers were also the ones who invented their performances, they could be considered

2448-404: The arrangement and selection of existing material. Character was determined by choice and by action. Tragedy is mimesis —"the imitation of an action that is serious". He developed his notion of hamartia , or tragic flaw, an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist , which provides the basis for the "conflict-driven" play. There were also a number of secular performances staged in

2516-754: The characters' inability to articulate their own desires. Films that have been described as influencing, or at least anticipating, the conventions of mumblecore include Girlfriends (1978), Manhattan (1979), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Slacker (1991), Clerks (1994), Go Fish (1994) and Before Sunrise (1995). Directors cited as influences include Michelangelo Antonioni , Eric Rohmer , Andrei Tarkovsky , Gus Van Sant , Richard Linklater , and John Cassavetes . Reality television , including what one critic called "the spring-break psychodrama of MTV's The Real World " , has also been called an influence on mumblecore, as has

2584-566: The edge of a cliff with". The show ran until the end of June. She was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for her performance. She was cast in the lead role in a spin-off of How I Met Your Mother titled How I Met Your Dad in 2014, but it was not picked up to series. Gerwig's next starring role was in Rebecca Miller 's Maggie's Plan , which premiered as an official selection of

2652-523: The festival circuit since September 2012. Gerwig played the title role, and received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance. Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote "Gerwig may be famed for acting like a nonactor, but she's an extraordinarily accomplished actor (as she proved in Damsels in Distress ), and here she puts

2720-543: The first American female director to take on the role of Jury President at Cannes Film Festival . Gerwig's films tend to be based on her own experiences. In a behind-the-scenes video on the set of Lady Bird she said, "I tend to start with things from my own life, then pretty quickly they spin out into their own orbit." Gerwig presses her actors to incorporate their personalities into their performances as well, and says of her writing and directing, "it's all about actors." By contrast, she allows little line improvisation and

2788-543: The genre collectively with the terms "bedhead cinema" and "Slackavetes" (a portmanteau derived from the title of Richard Linklater 's dialogue-heavy, lo-fi 1990s film Slacker , and the name of independent film director John Cassavetes ). In 2007, the IFC Center in New York City exhibited a ten-film series of mumblecore films, titled "The New Talkies: Generation D.I.Y." The films shown were: Hannah Takes

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2856-623: The high costs. She had intended to complete a degree in musical theater in New York ; however, she ended up graduating from Barnard College with a degree in English and philosophy. Outside of class, she performed in the Columbia University Varsity Show with her dorm-mate Kate McKinnon , who starred in Gerwig's Barbie (2023). Gerwig originally intended to become a playwright , but she turned to acting when she

2924-661: The lack of reform in the German public financial support system for the film industry (Filmfoerderung). Crowdfunding is a new possibility to finance movie productions with small and very small budgets independently from restrictions of the German Filmfoerderung. In 2009, Jette Miller's Austern ohne Schale was screened in Berlin. In 2011, the movies Frontalwatte by Jakob Lass and Papa Gold by Tom Lass were released. The latter won several German film awards. 2012 saw

2992-490: The latter part of the 16th century. The plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller , and other Sturm und Drang playwrights inspired a growing faith in feeling and instinct as guides to moral behavior and were part of the German romanticism movement. Aleksandr Ostrovsky was Russia's first professional playwright). Author and playwright Agatha Christie wrote The Moustrap ,

3060-465: The latter, for which she earned a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress . Also in 2016, she guest-starred in two episodes of the comedy series The Mindy Project . In 2017, Gerwig made her solo directorial debut (after having co-directed Nights and Weekends ) with the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Lady Bird , which she also wrote. It starred Saoirse Ronan in

3128-606: The most active German directors. Playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays , which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading . Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets . The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are

3196-580: The movie on her back and carries it from beginning to end, combining the spontaneous inspiration and personal presence of her earlier films". Her third collaboration with Baumbach, Mistress America , was released in August 2015 to generally positive reviews. In February 2014, Gerwig served as a jury member at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival . In May 2014, Gerwig made her stage debut as Becky in Penelope Skinner 's The Village Bike at

3264-545: The novel of the same name by Don DeLillo for Netflix . The movie opened both the 79th Venice International Film Festival and the 60th New York Film Festival and was made available on the streaming platform in late 2022. Gerwig also directed and co-wrote with Baumbach the fantasy comedy Barbie for Warner Bros. Pictures , based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel . It finished filming in 2022 and opened theatrically on July 21, 2023. The movie features Margot Robbie in

3332-678: The only film from a solo female director to gross over $ 1 billion worldwide, and earned her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California , and grew up in the River Park neighborhood. She is the daughter of Christine, an OB-GYN nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, who worked for a credit union on small business loans. She is close to her parents and they make an appearance in Frances Ha as her character's parents. She has an older brother,

3400-538: The perfect note for playing a woman who knows everything better than you do, but doesn't believe she's being stuck up about it; she's just being kind." In 2012, Gerwig appeared in Woody Allen 's film To Rome with Love in the vignette John's Story , acting alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Alec Baldwin . Gerwig and Baumbach co-wrote Baumbach's next film, Frances Ha , which was released in May 2013 after having toured

3468-407: The period typically collaborated with others at some point, as critics agree Shakespeare did, mostly early and late in his career. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. In England, after the interregnum , and Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, there was a move toward neoclassical dramaturgy. Between

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3536-400: The release of Klappe Cowboy by Timo Jacobs and Ulf Behrens, as well as the award-winning Heavy Girls  [ de ] by Axel Ranisch . In 2015, Malte Wirtz Voll Paula! had its theatrical release, having also been produced without film funding. Since then he produced three more Mumblecore Films (Hard & Ugly, Only one day in Berlin, About Rita!) and the media called him one of

3604-886: The script is followed fairly closely. In an interview with Maclean's , Gerwig cited Woody Allen as a major influence in her work stating, "His influence is hard to measure because it runs so deep". Her other influences include Howard Hawks , Ernst Lubitsch , Carole Lombard , Joan Didion , Patti Smith , Federico Fellini , Chantal Akerman , Claire Denis , Mia Hansen-Løve , Phil Lord and Christopher Miller , John Huston , Mike Leigh and Agnès Varda . Gerwig lives in Manhattan with her husband, filmmaker Noah Baumbach , whom she married in 2023 after 12 years together. They have two sons together, born in March 2019 and February 2023. Gerwig has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder . In 2011, Gerwig won an award from

3672-557: The subject matter significantly. For example, verisimilitude limits of the unities. Decorum fitted proper protocols for behavior and language on stage. In France, contained too many events and actions, thus, violating the 24-hour restriction of the unity of time. Neoclassicism never had as much traction in England, and Shakespeare 's plays are directly opposed to these models, while in Italy, improvised and bawdy commedia dell'arte and opera were more popular forms. One structural unit that

3740-512: The success of Lady Bird , Gerwig was part of the voice cast of Wes Anderson 's stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs , which premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . In June 2018, it was announced that Gerwig would direct a new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott 's novel Little Women , whose script she had been previously hired to write. With an ensemble cast led by Ronan, Little Women

3808-475: The term "mumblecore": Eric Masunaga , a sound editor who has worked with Bujalski, coined the term one night at a bar during the festival, when asked to describe the similarities between those three films. The term was first used publicly by Bujalski in an interview with IndieWire . Bujalski has downplayed the existence of an organized "movement", however, and stated that he does not intentionally make "mumblecore" films. Film journalists have also referred to

3876-450: The title role alongside Ryan Gosling (as the doll Ken ). The film was a commercial success, and eventually crossed the $ 1 billion gross mark worldwide, making Gerwig the first woman with sole director credit to have a movie make more than $ 1 billion at the global box office. It received critical acclaim and other accolades , including eight Academy Award nominations, among them Gerwig for Best Adapted Screenplay . In November 2021, it

3944-691: The title role. Lady Bird premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was theatrically released in November 2017. The film grossed over $ 78 million against its $ 10 million budget worldwide. Lady Bird received critical acclaim, with reviewers particularly lauding Gerwig's screenplay and direction. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review , the American Film Institute , and Time magazine as one of

4012-638: The top ten films of 2017. According to the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes , it was given 196 positive reviews in a row, making it the record-holder for the most "fresh" reviews, until the first "rotten" one arrived in December 2017. As of 2019, it had a 99% rating on the aforementioned website. At the 75th Golden Globe Awards , Lady Bird won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Saoirse Ronan , and also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf and Best Screenplay for Gerwig. At

4080-441: The word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston or Thomas Dekker : Jonson described himself as a poet, not a playwright, since plays during that time were written in meter and so were regarded as the province of poets. This view was held as late as the early 19th century. The term "playwright" later again lost this negative connotation. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are

4148-600: Was cast as a lead in an HBO pilot adaptation of The Corrections , which however was not picked up to series. Also that year she starred in Whit Stillman 's comedy Damsels in Distress (2011) which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival . Critic Roger Ebert compared the film favorably to the novels of P.G. Wodehouse and praised Gerwig's performance, writing "He's also lucky to have found an actress in Gerwig who finds

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4216-519: Was happening for me, and I went back to acting classes." In order to support herself financially, she worked as a nanny and a tutor for the SAT . In 2010, Gerwig starred in Noah Baumbach 's Greenberg with Ben Stiller , Rhys Ifans , and Jennifer Jason Leigh . In an appraisal of her work in this and other films, The New York Times critic A. O. Scott described Gerwig as an "ambassador of

4284-476: Was known for," and that her ambition was to be a "big studio director." In October 2024, Puck ' s Matthew Belloni reported that Gerwig had raised concerns to Netflix chairman Dan Lin about giving the film a theatrical release in addition to being on the streamer. In 2024, Gerwig presided over the feature film jury for the Official Competition of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival , becoming

4352-470: Was nominated for Best Director , a snub that was publicly noted by Hillary Clinton and Saturday Night Live , amongst others. Gerwig's name was one of those featured on the outfit that actress Natalie Portman wore to the ceremony, which featured the surnames of snubbed female directors from that year's ceremony. Gerwig co-starred with Adam Driver in Baumbach's 2022 film White Noise , adapted from

4420-553: Was not admitted to playwriting MFA programs. In 2006, while still studying at Barnard, she was cast in a minor role in Joe Swanberg 's LOL , and appeared in Baghead by Jay and Mark Duplass . She began a partnership with Swanberg, which resulted in the duo's co-writing Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), and sharing both writing and directing duties on Nights and Weekends (2008). Through these films, she became known as

4488-401: Was released in December 2019 to widespread critical acclaim. At the 92nd Academy Awards , it received six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Ronan, Best Supporting Actress for Pugh, Best Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig, Best Original Score , and a win for Best Costume Design . The film was frequently mentioned as part of an Oscars controversy after no woman (including Gerwig)

4556-450: Was reported that Gerwig had done work on the screenplay for Disney's upcoming live-action film Snow White . The New Yorker reported in July 2023 that she had been hired by Netflix to write and direct two film adaptations of C. S. Lewis ' The Chronicles of Narnia book series. Gerwig's talent agent , Jeremy Barber, said that she was "looking to move beyond the small-scale dramas she

4624-417: Was these filmmakers were like, 'There is not another movie. This is the real movie.'" Although she had an association with a number of other mumblecore filmmakers and appeared in several films, mainstream success remained elusive. Of this period in her life, Gerwig has said, "I was really depressed. I was 25 [in 2008] and thinking, 'This is supposed to be the best time and I'm miserable' but it felt like acting

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