The Golden Globes, which have just passed a week ago, are a little more deserted than previous years, but they have subversively created history, and for the first time, three female directors have been nominated for the Golden Globes for "Best Director". You know, in the past 77 years, only 5 women at the Golden Globes have been nominated for "Best Director": Barbara Streisand ("Yantel", "Prince of the Tide"), Jane Campion ("Piano Lesson"), Sophia Coppola ("Lost in Tokyo"), Catherine Bigelow ("Bomb Disposal Force", "The Hunt for Bin Laden"), Ava Deweyne ("Selma"). It's rare for a female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe, let alone an award.
In 2018, "Black Swan" actress Natalie Portman quipped when presenting the Golden Globe Award for Best Director that year, "Let's take a look at this all-male nomination list", breaking the "illusion" of gender equality. That evening, When announcing the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, Barbara Streisand also rebuked the Hollywood industry's entrenched sexism, while calling for "we need more female directors, more women to be nominated for best director." ”
Natalie Portman Golden Globe Award
Not only the Golden Globes, but also Hollywood's highest honor, the Oscars, are equally miserly in their recognition of female directors. In Hollywood, where human rights and equality are concerned, there are still cases where studios and producers restrict women's participation in filming, often believing that women cannot afford large budgets or the pressure of making movies.
However, Patti Jenkins of "Wonder Woman" and Jia Ling of "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" have proved the strong market influence of female directors with the box office. Perhaps, this year's Golden Globes are slowly changing the misconceptions before they began to change.
Some analysts said that the number of blockbusters and market box office of female directors in Hollywood hit a record last year, but there is still a long way to go to promote gender equality. Since the 1944 Golden Globe Awards, 10 films directed by women have nominated eight women for Best Director, and only two have won, and this article will take you to learn about the female directors who made history at the Golden Globes.
Barbara Streisand (Yantel, "The Waves of Time")
As the first woman in the history of the Golden Globes to win best director, Barbara Streisand has a legendary presence in Hollywood, not only the Golden Globes, but also the only artist who has multiple authoritative awards such as the Oscars, Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, and Emmy Awards. She is an actress on Broadway, television, film, pop singer and songwriter, screenwriter, director and producer, and almost all kinds of work in the show business circle, perfectly showing the "mythical" all-rounder image.
Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1942, Barbara Streisand debuted as a singer and was nominated for a Tony Award when she debuted on Broadway at the age of 20. Later, a cabaret drama "Funny Girl" ("Wonderful Girl") made her a "Queen of Broadway". In 1968, the film of the same name based on this song and dance drama made her an Oscar and one of the top American film stars.
Funny Girl
In 1983, this all-round artist who did not look amazing but showed the world unlimited possibilities broke through the situation that the American entertainment industry has always been dominated by men, and launched her self-written, self-directed, self-acting, produced, theme song composed and sung "Yantel" ("Yang Duo"), becoming the first woman in film history to be so all-round. The Jewish girl Yantel, who breaks through prejudices, breaks through traditional restrictions, and pursues her own ideals, is like a portrayal of the confident and powerful Streisand herself. The film won the Oscar for Best Song and the Golden Globe for Best Director, and it took 37 years to finally usher in the second woman to receive this honor.
"Yantel"
Interestingly, this classic was cue several times by Little in 2018's Deadpool 2. In the film, Deadpool watches the movie at home with his girlfriend at home, and comments on Barbara Streisand's "Papa can you hear me", saying that it is like "Do you wanna build a snowman" in Frozen. In addition to the influence of Barbara Streisand and Yantel, the reason why Deadpool 2 chose this film is probably that Streisand is the stepmother of "Cable" Josh Brolin.
In 1991, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director again for directing the romantic romance film "The Waves of the Years" ("Prince of the Tide"), becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director twice.
Jane Campion ("Piano Don't Fall In Love")
Born into an acting family, Jane Campion studied painting early on, but dissatisfied with the limitations of the form of painting, began to turn to film creation in the 1980s. The first short film "Peel" and the long debut "Sweet Sister" have been shortlisted for Cannes. Through a woman-specific perspective and a delicate exploration of the female spiritual world, Jane Campion has become a regular guest at three major European film festivals, and her films are often regarded as a model for feminist films.
Sweet Sister
"Because I'm also a woman, I understand women, I understand a woman's soul, everything about a woman. This is my unique insight. "Under her lens, women are the protagonists of almost every film she makes. By depicting the complex fates and psychology of women, Jane Campion shows the feminine charm of different identities, such as Nicole Kidman in "Ladylike Nature", Kate Winslet in "Holy Smoke", and Meg Ryan in "Naked Cutting", all of which have different characteristics in her films.
Jane Campion is best known for her 1993 Piano Love, which established her international standing and made her one of the top female directors in the film industry. It is well known that the film won the 1994 Cannes Palme d'Or at the same time as Chen Kaige's "Farewell to the King", and Jane Campion became the first female director to receive this award.
"Piano Don't Fall in Love"
At the same time, the film was also nominated for the 1994 Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, Best Picture and other awards, and eventually Spielberg's "Schindler's List" became a big winner, and "Piano Lesson" won the Best Actress Award. It is worth mentioning that although this film is a feminist art film, it unexpectedly achieved good box office results in that year.
Sophia Coppola (Lost in Tokyo)
Some media said, "The Coppola family is to Hollywood as Kennedy is to American politics." Sophia Coppola was born into a film family, her father is Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the famous "Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now", the cousin is an old friend of Chinese film fans, Nicolas Cage, and the grandfather Carmen Coppola is a music conductor and composer. According to statistics, Coppola's three generations of four grandchildren have won a total of nine Oscars, contributing many classic masterpieces to Hollywood and world movies.
In 1971, during the filming of The Godfather, Sophia was born, and her father, Coppola, arranged a role for his newborn daughter, which is the baby in the final scene of the film. The genes of the family and the growing environment of living on the small set doomed Sophia to embark on the road of film in the future. However, after 18-year-old Sophia starred in "The Godfather 3", her acting skills were ruthlessly complained about, and she was also awarded the Golden Raspberry Award for the worst performance. 10 years later, Sophia, who gave up the road of acting, became a director and filmed her first work, "Virgin Suicide", which received rave reviews, and the film was also selected as one of the top ten of the year in the French "Film Handbook".
"Virgin Suicide"
However, the audience and the film industry were really impressed by Sophia's talent as a director, "Lost in Tokyo" in 2003, her second self-written and self-directed film with "Black Widow" Scarlett Johansson. The film cost less than 4 million yuan, took only 27 days to shoot, all filmed in Japan, and tells the lonely and ambiguous love of a man and a woman in a foreign country. The film was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Director and other awards, and finally won the honors of Best Screenplay, Best Picture in the Musical Comedy Category, and Best Actor. At the same time, the film was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and Director that year.
In 2006, the $40 million film "The Magnificent Queen" had a mediocre box office and word-of-mouth response; the fourth film, "Somewhere," a "sister film" to Lost in Tokyo, won her the Venice Golden Lion and was described by her father, Coppola, as "This is a film that only you can make." Later films such as "Pearlescent" and "Under the Peony Flower" added more honors to her, and also proved the talent of this female director who was prominent but relied on her own strength.
Catherine Bigelow (Bomb Disposal Unit, The Hunt for Bin Laden)
Before the 2010 Oscars, Catherine Bigelow was mentioned by the media as Cameron's ex-wife, and after the Oscars, she defeated Kashin's super blockbuster "Avatar" with "Bomb Disposal Unit", becoming the first woman in Oscar history to win best director, and "Bomb Disposal Force", which won 6 awards, also became the biggest winner.
Interestingly, at the Golden Globe Awards before the Oscars that year, "Bomb Disposal Unit", which was nominated for best director and best picture, lost to "Avatar", leaving Bigelow out of the Golden Globe for best director. Three years later, at the Golden Globes and the Oscars, Bigelow's "The Hunt for Bin Laden" was once again nominated for Best Director and Best Picture, respectively.
Bomb Disposal Unit
As a female director, Bigelow did not choose those lingering romance films or light-hearted comedy films, but was keen to challenge masculinity, hot blood, violence, knife and gun, strong impact action, war, disaster genre.
In an interview as early as 1990, she stressed that movies should be paid more attention to than their own gender, "If there is really resistance to women making movies, then I will only choose to ignore." 」 I can't change my gender, and I don't stop making movies. ”
"Bomb Disposal Unit", which depicts the real experience of American bomb disposal experts on the Battlefield in Iraq, "Hunting Bin Laden" in which American agents led commandos to shoot bin Laden in Pakistan, "Breaking Point" starring Keanu Reeves in the early days, and "K-19", starring Harrison Ford, are almost all masculine films, full of male hormone atmosphere, with politics, war or disaster as the background, through documentary lenses, focusing on the survival and fate of characters in extreme environments.
Ava Dewine (Selma)
As an African-American female director and screenwriter, Ava Dewier entered the general public eye in 2018 by directing disney's fantasy adventure film The Fold of Time. The film made Ava Dewier the first black female director to direct over a hundred million dollars. After that, he signed a contract with Warner DC, and then won a large-cost production, directing the big-screen adaptation of "New Gods". In addition, Marvel's "Black Panther" also wanted to find her as a director, but it failed due to "creative differences".
The Wrinkles of Time
The reason why it won the favor of the big studios was because of the quality and influence of Ava Dewier's previous series of works. In 2012, she wrote and directed "Gone Without a Trace" and won the Sundance Film Festival For Best Director, becoming the first African-American woman to receive the honor.
"Lost"
2014's "Selma" was an unprecedented success, nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Best Picture, and Ava Dewier became the first woman of color to be nominated for the award, which is of landmark significance. Based on historical events, the film focused on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and eventually won the Oscar for Best Original Song. In 2016, Ava Dewine's Thirteenth Amendment was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
"Selma"
In 2018, the Producers Guild of America awarded her the Vision Award, saying, "Her unique voice, skill and passion, whether in film, television or documentary, has inspired countless audiences across our country and the world." By any measure, she is a visionary storyteller. ”
The first transformation to direct a film is the R scale, and received four nominations including the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the story of women's revenge is very easy to associate with the "Metoo" movement (the American anti-sexual harassment movement) in recent years.
Known as the dark horse of the awards season, the revenge film "Young Woman with a Bright Future" is played by "Daisy" Kerry Mulligan in "The Great Gatsby", and the director is British post-80s Emma ray Finnell, who has been the screenwriter of "Killing Eve" and starred in the hit "The Crown".
"A Young Woman with a Bright Future"
The film tells the story of Kathy, a promising medical student, who is determined to avenge her after her friend commits suicide by sexual assault. In an interview, Emmale Fenel said, "She wanted the film to be fun and convincing, not to be full of preaching." ”
Unlike female revenge films such as Park Chan-wook's "Kind Of Gold" and Quentin's "Kill Bill", this film does not have the conventional routine of so-called good guys and bad guys, but in the contrast between the sexy and sweet appearance and the core of the horror and darkness, the suspenseful, black comedy style explores the ambiguous gray areas in those hypocritical acts and gender relations.
Similar to Emmale Fenel, actress-turned-actress Regina King was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her first feature-length film and received three nominations, including Best Director. In 1985, Regina King, who debuted on the screen, starred in the sitcom "227", which gained public attention. In 1996, he played the wife of rod, the actor's assistant, in the comedy "Mr. Sweetheart" starring Tom Cruise, and in 1998, he co-starred with Will Smith in the action film "Enemy of the Nation", which gradually became known to the audience.
Enemy of the Nation
After that, she starred in many well-known dramas, including "South Side Police", "The Big Bang Theory", "American Serious Case", "Seven Seconds" and so on. "American Serious Case" won her an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series; for the Netflix miniseries "Seven Seconds," Regina King was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Limited Series and won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Limited Series. In 2020, with the role of "Policewoman" in "Watchmen", Regina King once again won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Limited Series. In terms of film, in 2019, she won the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Film for her racially focused film "If Beale Street Could Talk".
A Night in Miami
In 2020, "A Night in Miami," directed by Regina King and nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, is based on a stage play about four civil rights pioneers in the context of racial segregation in the United States in the 1960s: "Boxer Ali" Cathers Clay Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm Klein. X, The Story of Sam Cook, the King of American Soul music, and legendary football player Jimmy Brown, in a miami hotel overnight. Through the fierce debates and debates of four characters on political, racial, human rights and other issues, the film recreates the social landscape of that time. (Source| Time Network Mtime)
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