Oscars 2018: Emma Stone repeats Natalie Portman male directors jibe while presenting award
'These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year'
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Your support makes all the difference.Emma Stone criticised the lack of female representation compared to male while presenting the Best Director award at the Oscars in a repeat of the same jibe made by Natalie Portman at the Golden Globes.
The actor, who won for La La Land at last year's ceremony, was announcing the winner when she highlighted the fact that four male filmmakers were nominated alongside just one woman.
“These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year,” she said to applause from the crowd before naming The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro as the winner.
Portman was praised for the dig against the fact that the five Golden Globes nominees were all male after the surprising snub for Lady Bird director Gerwig and Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins, something which was immediately pointed out on social media.
“Here are all the male nominees,” she said as the names of Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Steven Spielberg (The Post), Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World) and eventual winner, del Toro, were reeled off.
The 90th Academy Awards earlier saw Jordan Peele become the first black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay for horror satire Get Out.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony kicking things off with a rather safe opening monologue which poked fun at Harvey Weinstein and Mike Pence.
You can find a full list of all 24 winners here.
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