Lady Bird

…of films quickly followed, including Lady Bird, Hostiles, and Hot Summer Nights (all 2017). Chalamet then appeared opposite Steve Carell in Beautiful Boy (2018), a drama based on a pair of memoirs by a father and son about drug addiction.

…and director with the semiautobiographical Lady Bird (2017), a coming-of-age story that focuses on the relationship between the title character (Saoirse Ronan) and her mother (Laurie Metcalf). Gerwig received Academy Award nominations for both her screenplay and her direction, and the movie was nominated for best picture. Gerwig then took…

…director with the coming-of-age story Lady Bird (2017), for which she received Oscar nominations for both screenwriting and direction. She also garnered praise for Little Women (2019), based on the Louisa May Alcott novel. Her comedy-fantasy film Barbie (2023), cowritten with Noah Baumbach, broke box office records to become the…

…and the acclaimed coming-of-age tale Lady Bird. In 2019 Letts starred in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and appeared in Little Women, a film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic. He later was cast in the limited series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers…

…(Saoirse Ronan) in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2017); her perfectly calibrated performance earned her an Academy Award nomination.

Greta Gerwig’s semi-autobiographical Lady Bird (2017). More praise followed for her performance as Nina in The Seagull, the film version of Anton Chekhov’s play, and as the ill-fated title character in Mary Queen of Scots (both 2018). She earned another Oscar nod when she portrayed the strong-minded and…