{"id":390413,"date":"2026-01-25T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T23:09:18","slug":"natalie-portman-slams-oscars-for-snubbing-women-directors-world-of-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390413\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman Slams Oscars For Snubbing Women Directors \u2014 World of Reel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Natalie Portman hit the Sundance Film Festival to promote Cathy Yan\u2019s \u201cThe Gallerist,\u201d which is not getting good reviews\u2014and that\u2019s putting it mildly. Did anyone actually like this film?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Yan, the \u201cBirds of Prey\u201d helmer, has assembled a cast that includes Portman, Jenna Ortega, and\u2014her again\u2014Charli XCX. The film centers on a desperate gallerist who conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe Gallerist\u201d is one of the bigger Sundance titles directed by a female filmmaker, and at the premiere\u2014which took place less than a week after the Oscar nominations\u2014Portman decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/natalie-portman-slams-ice-awards-women-directed-movies-1236640121\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">call out<\/a> the Academy for snubbing a handful of female-directed movies this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sure, you had Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s \u201cHamnet\u201d earning eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, but yes, there aren\u2019t too many other movies directed by women competing for Oscars this year. However, Portman seems to be hinting at sexism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSo many of the best films I saw this year were made by women,\u201d Portman said. \u201cYou just see the barriers at every level because so many were not recognized at awards time. Between \u2018Sorry Baby\u2019 and \u2018Left-Handed Girl\u2019 and \u2018Hedda\u2019 and \u2018The Testament of Ann Lee.\u2019 Extraordinary films this year that I think a lot of people are enjoying and loving, but are not getting the accolades they deserve [\u2026] we still have a lot of work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Are we still really doing this, Natalie? I thought we were done with these quotas\u2014let the people choose the films they like, not the gender they prefer. Hell, the Academy completely reformed its voting body around the time of the #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo movements, and with that, female membership grew by around 12%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Portman doesn\u2019t even mention the two best female-directed films I saw last year: Mary Bronstein\u2019s \u201cIf I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You\u201d and Kelly Reichardt\u2019s \u201cThe Mastermind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Regardless, the fact of the matter is that there still seem to be people out there who truly believe in quotas at film festivals and for awards. They want gender equality in the arts. They want us to yet again be swept up in \u201cidentity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman hit the Sundance Film Festival to promote Cathy Yan\u2019s \u201cThe Gallerist,\u201d which is not getting good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-390413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}