--- title: Emma Stone Burns Oscars Male Dominated Best Director Field description: Emma Stone took a page out of Natalie Portman's awards book while presenting the Oscar for Best Director at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. canonical: https://time.com/5185688/oscars-2018-emma-stone-best-director-burn/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T15:31:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:01:29.190Z og:title: Emma Stone Burns Male-Dominated Best Director Field at the Oscars og:description: The La La Land star took a page out of Natalie Portman's awards book og:url: https://time.com/5185688/oscars-2018-emma-stone-best-director-burn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13d4d6817a825c8e/6989299997cdff2c786b4881/emma-stone-best-director.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Oscars-2018-Emma-Stone og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Stone Burns Male-Dominated Best Director Field at the Oscars twitter:description: The La La Land star took a page out of Natalie Portman's awards book twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13d4d6817a825c8e/6989299997cdff2c786b4881/emma-stone-best-director.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emma Stone Masterfully Burns Male-Dominated Best Director Field at the 2018 Oscars > Sponsored content. 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On Sunday night, Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Leading Actress at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 5, 2018 3:31 PM UTC On Sunday night, Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Leading Actress at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 5, 2018 3:31 PM UTC [Emma Stone](http://time.com/5094933/jennifer-lawrence-emma-stone-globes/) took a page out of [Natalie Portman’s awards book](http://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/) while presenting the Oscar for Best Director at the [90th Annual Academy Awards](http://time.com/5183817/oscars-2018-best-worst-moments/). Before announcing _The Shape of Water’s_ Guillermo Del Toro as the category’s winner, the _La La Land_ star took a jab at the ratio of men to women nominated in the field. Her comment harkened back to the moment at the 2018 Golden Globes when Portman seemed to call out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for not nominating a single female director. Women weren’t completely snubbed at the Oscars, as Greta Gerwig was up for _Lady Bird_ alongside Del Toro, _Get Out’s_ Jordan Peele, _Phantom Thread_‘s Paul Thomas Anderson and _Dunkirk_‘s Christopher Nolan. However, that didn’t stop Stone from pointing out the gender disparity in the field. “It is the vision of the director that takes an ordinary movie and turns it into a work of art,” she said. “These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year.” Gerwig is only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. > [](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/970602415870414848) ## Transcript [00:00] If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees in [00:04] every category stand with me in this room tonight, the [00:07] actors, Meryl if you do it everybody else will come on. The [00:11] film makers, the producers, the directors, the writers okay [00:17] look around everybody look around ladies and gentlemen. [00:19] Because we all have stories to tell and projects we need [00:23] financed. 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