Golden Globes snubs: Female directors miss out as does Robert De Niro

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Female directors were shut out of the nominations for the 77th Golden Globes while Robert De Niro was also a surprise snub&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Greta Gerwig was tipped by many for a best director nod for Little Women while Hustlers’ Lorene Scafaria and The Farewell’s Lulu Wang were also expected to be in the frame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However they missed out&comma; leaving an all-male shortlist of Martin Scorsese for The Irishman&comma; Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood&comma; Sam Mendes for 1917&comma; Todd Phillips for Joker and Bong Joon-ho for Parasite&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the absence of female filmmakers is likely to prove controversial&comma; only five women have ever been nominated for best director in the Globes’ 77-year history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Barbra Streisand was the only winner&comma; triumphing in 1984 with Yentl&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>De Niro’s leading role in The Irishman had been billed as another career high for one of Hollywood’s greatest actors&comma; but it was not enough to earn him recognition from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association &lpar;HFPA&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Little Women has been well received but it received only two nominations&comma; for Saoirse Ronan for best actress and best original score&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Game Of Thrones paid the price for its divisive eighth and final season&comma; only picking up one nod for star Kit Harington&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another TV series to miss out was Netflix’s acclaimed drama When They See Us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ava DuVernay’s harrowing account of five young men falsely accused of an horrific attack on a New York City jogger was overlooked by the HFPA voters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Big Bang Theory&comma; one of the most popular sitcoms in recent TV history&comma; bowed out earlier this year but was another absentee on the nominations list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another hugely popular show to depart in the last 12 months&comma; Veep&comma; was also snubbed&comma; with star Julia Louis-Dreyfus failing to score a nod for best TV comedy actress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Handmaid’s Tale&comma; This Is Us and Euphoria were also shut out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed9dbc91025">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed9dbc91025'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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