Greta Gerwig has been tapped to obtain this 12 months’s Pioneer of the Yr Award. She’s solely the second feminine director to obtain the distinguished honor after Elizabeth Banks.
She’ll be feted on the Will Rogers Movement Image Pioneers Basis’s annual dinner on Sept. 25 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
All three of the movies Gerwig has written and directed solo — Barbie, Girl Chook and Little Girls — landed Oscar nominations for greatest image, whereas Gerwig herself acquired Oscar nominations for greatest director and greatest unique screenplay for Girl Chook, greatest tailored screenplay for Little Girls and greatest tailored screenplay for Barbie.
Final 12 months, Barbie, which Gerwig co-wrote with Noah Baumbach for Warner Bros., turned the primary movie from a solo feminine director to gross greater than $1 billion on the international field workplace.
A practice for greater than 75 years, the Pioneer of the Yr award acknowledges members of the movement image trade whose management, service to the group and dedication to philanthropy are distinctive.
All proceeds raised from the September dinner will go to the Will Rogers Pioneers Help Fund, a charity which offers monetary help and supportive counseling to people within the movement image distribution and exhibition group in occasions of want.
“Greta Gerwig is a dynamic filmmaker with extraordinary imaginative and prescient who entertains and evokes audiences in every single place,” mentioned Warner Bros. home distribution president Jeff Goldstein, who’s co-chairman of this 12 months’s Pioneer dinner. Bleecker Avenue distribution president and Pioneers Help Fund chairman Kyle Davies echoed these sentiments.
Gerwig’s early appearing credit embody indie classics Hannah Takes The Stairs, which she co-wrote, and Nights and Weekends, which she co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced. Her breakout function got here in Baumbach’s Greenberg, adopted by Baumbach’s Frances Ha (the 2 are married). Most not too long ago, Gerwig starred in Baumbach’s White Noise and can subsequent be seen in his upcoming untitled movie reverse George Clooney and Adam Sandler.
She’s additionally at the moment writing an adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia e book collection for Netflix.
Previous Pioneer of the Yr honorees embody Tom Cruise, Erik Lomis, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, Donna Langley, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Elizabeth Banks, Jim Gianopulos, Dick Cook dinner, Michael D. Eisner, Alan Horn, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Sherry Lansing, Frank G. Mancuso, Sumner Redstone, Terry Semel, Tom Sherak, Jack Valenti, Jack Warner, Darryl F. Zanuck and Cecil B. DeMille.
