Emma Stone shouted out Greta Gerwig while presenting for Best Director
Greta Gerwig didn't take home the Oscar for Best Director during Sunday night's Academy Awards. That honor went to Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape of Water.
But before opening the envelope, presenter Emma Stone gave Gerwig a shoutout for her role as the sole woman nominated in the directing category.
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"These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year," she said.
While some praised the line, as many have noted on Twitter, Stone's choice to draw a line between the category's male nominees and Gerwig ignores that two of the men nominated – Jordan Peele and Del Toro – are also people of color.
You have an immigrant and a Black man who created a movie about the horrors of white supremacy, but thought it was appropriate to flatten it to “four men and Greta Gerwig.” #Oscars pic.twitter.com/PHsQ9dkUAR
— Evette Dionne 🙅🏾♀️ (@freeblackgirl) March 5, 2018
It unsettles me so much when I hear the “four men and Greta Gerwig” lines or “here are the all male nominees” as if racial disparity between those nominees doesn’t exist....
— malk (@lousyshotbell) March 5, 2018
Gerwig was just the fifth woman in Academy Awards history to be nominated. Her film Lady Bird was also nominated for Best Picture.
Peele, nominated for his film Get Out, was just the fourth ever black directing nominee.
Del Toro's The Shape of Water took home Sunday's award for Best Picture.
