“Did this film direct itself?”
When a female-directed film that received critical acclaim and box-office success was nominated in several Oscar categories — including best picture, but not best director — that was the question that had people buzzing.
But this wasn’t Barbie, and the director wasn’t Greta Gerwig. This was 1992, when Barbra Streisand’s directorial snub for The Prince of Tides was seen as so controversial that Billy Crystal called it out in his opening song at the 64th annual Academy Awards, crooning, “Seven nominations on the shelf/Did this film direct itself?”
WATCH | Billy Crystal criticizes Barbra Streisand’s Oscars snub:
More than 30 years later, many are asking the same question after Gerwig’s Barbie, the undisputed box-office
