Israeli outraged that she won't get a Golden Globe

Trying to look like a genius.

The Israeli director of Honey Boy is outraged that she didn't get a Golden Globe nomination for the Shia LaBeouf vanity project. She attacked the Golden Globes for having nominated so few women directors. She wasn't the first to suggest they have an award for "Best Director-Female" award, and it might be a good idea. But the main reason so few women get nominated is that so few women direct movies. The BBC just took a survey of movie critics to make a list of the hundred greatest movies directed by women, and the list wasn't very good. It included Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Big, Sleepless in Seattle, a couple of B movies by Ida Lupino, Desperately Seeking Susan----I guess those movies were reasonably good, but not brilliant.

I'd be happier if directing wasn't so male-dominated. It'd be fine with me if they legally required that fifty percent of movies be directed by women.

The only woman to win a Golden Globe for best director was Barbra Streisand for her ridiculous movie, Yentl.  Her fans were outraged that she didn't get an Oscar nomination. The thing was well-made but the directing was nothing special and the story was absurd. The movie didn't make it onto the BBC's list.

The story about the Israeli was reported in Variety. There were a lot of comments on it. They weren't very good. A few people hated the movie. I myself commented that the thing being about Shia LaBeouf may have played a role in it being snubbed if it was snubbed. 

Comments on the Variety website are moderated and when I looked again, they were all gone. Even my insightful observation was callously deleted. There was one new comment:

Valid criticism. But I wish all these people who decry the snubbing of women directors would go one step further and explain who among the nominees should be bumped off. Now THAT takes guts and further the conversation. 

And even if that happens, there are only 5 spots and SO MANY great films this year, there WILL be outcry over who got in and who didn’t anyway.

Long ago, when Barbra Streisand's second movie failed to get her an Oscar nomination, her fans were again in a state of rage. Why did they keep robbing her? Gene Siskel pointed out that all the movies that were nominated were far better than Streisand's and suggested that her fans say which one they thought didn't deserve the nomination.