Mulligan slams award shows for snubbing female directors
21 Jan 2018 3:51 PM GMT
Los Angeles: Actor Carey Mulligan has criticised award shows for not giving female directors equal space in nominations as their male colleagues. The actor also called out the Star Wars franchise's lack of female directors.
"If Dee Rees was a white man she'd be directing the next Star Wars' she'd be nominated for an Oscar without question," Mulligan told Variety at the Sundance Film Festival.
Rees, who directed the critically-acclaimed Mudbound, was snubbed from this year's Golden Globes race for Best Director along with Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig and Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins. "There's something not right, and we 're working on it. I think Greta and Patty Jenkins have been overlooked for too long. If it doesn't happen I feel like people will react to it," she added.
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