This morning, the nominations for the 2018 Golden Globes were announced, and once again, women in the film industry have been failed.
For the second year in a row, no women have been nominated in the Best Director category. Not Patty Jenkins, the trailblazing director of *Wonder Woman (yes, the film which had tremendous box office success), *not Greta Gerwig for her debut film Lady Bird (a female coming-of-age story which is so important to women of today), and definitely not Dee Rees, who directed the critically acclaimed Mudbound. Nope, these women didn't even get a look in. Not even in a year that saw many female-led film projects come to life.
We wish we could say we were surprised by this lack of recognition, but we're not. Only one woman has ever won a Golden Globe for Best Director in the 74-year-history of the show, and that woman is Barbra Streisand. This was way back in 1984.
This year (2017 - the time of supposed industry change), we were once again greeted by the familiar names of male directors who made the nominations list (Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott). The lack of women in this category proves that the industry is unwilling to recognise - let alone consider - that female-helmed films are just as important cinema contributions as male ones.
So, does this mean that no woman in the past 33 years has made a film worthy of an Golden Globe award? Nope. It just means that the industry isn't willing to acknowledge that a woman is just as capable as a man in creating a compelling, captivating piece of art. There's no doubt that Jenkins, Gerwig and Rees are gifted directors - the issue lies in the male judges inability to see their value and talent.
While women were nominated in other Golden Globe categories - Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father received a best foreign film nomination, for example - this doesn't make up for the fact that leading female talent were shunned out of the prestigious Best Director category.
So, it would seem that even in the wake of the shocking Harvey Weinstein revelations, not much has changed for women in Hollywood. And sadly, this rings especially true when it comes to recognition of their work. Clearly, there's still a long way to go. But if the Harvey Weinstein revelations won't trigger a change in the Hollywood's unfair culture, what will?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.