--- description: Natalie Portman pointed out that no women directors were nominated for a Best Director award at the 2018 Golden Globes title: Natalie Portman Presents the 'All-Male Nominees' For the Golden Globes' Best Director Award image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03e19442683d97c8/6988f766e76ad2e2796308a2/golden-globes-2018-portman-howard.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [awards](/tag/awards/) ## awards Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Natalie Portman Calls Out the 'All-Male' Best Director Nominees at the Golden Globes by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 8, 2018 3:49 AM CUT  Presenters Natalie Portman and Ron Howard speak onstage during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Presenters Natalie Portman and Ron Howard speak onstage during the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.NBC/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 8, 2018 3:49 AM CUT Natalie Portman made sure viewers were aware that the [Golden Globes](http://time.com/5091793/golden-globes-times-up-pin-red-carpet-men/ "undefined") did not nominate any women in its Best Director category during the 75th annual awards ceremony on Sunday. Portman appeared alongside Ron Howard, who introduced the category by saying they were honored to present the award, before Portman chimed in. “And here are the all-male nominees,” she said, drawing loud cheers and laughs. > [](https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/950206215623147520) Some of this year’s biggest Golden Globes snubs came in the Best Director category, where not a single woman was nominated for her work. Despite being behind some of the highest grossing and critically acclaimed movies of the last year, female directors like [Greta Gerwig](http://time.com/4594259/20th-century-women-clip-annette-bening-elle-fanning/ "undefined") (_Lady Bird_), Patty Jenkins (_Wonder Woman_) and Dee Rees (_Mudbound_) were not nominated for Best Director. Guillermo del Toro won the award for his film, _The Shape of Water_. Other directors nominated were Martin McDonagh (_Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri_), Christopher Nolan (_Dunkirk_), Ridley Scott (_All the Money in the World_) and Steven Spielberg (_The Post_). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/"},"headline":"Natalie Portman Calls Out the 'All-Male' Best Director Nominees at the Golden Globes","datePublished":"2018-01-08T03:49:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:46:58.027Z","description":"No women directors were nominated for a Best Director award","url":"https://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/","keywords":["awards","golden globes","goldenglobes2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03e19442683d97c8/6988f766e76ad2e2796308a2/golden-globes-2018-portman-howard.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03e19442683d97c8/6988f766e76ad2e2796308a2/golden-globes-2018-portman-howard.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"golden-globes-2018-portman-howard","caption":"golden-globes-2018-portman-howard","creditText":"NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/","name":"Natalie Portman Calls Out the 'All-Male' Best Director Nominees at the Golden Globes"}}]}] ```