At the 75th Golden Globe Awards , '' Lady Bird '' won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Saoirse Ronan , and also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf and Best Screenplay for Gerwig . At the 90th Academy Awards , it was nominated for Best Picture , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Gerwig , Best Actress for Ronan , and Best Supporting Actress for Metcalf . With the nominations announced , Gerwig had become the fifth woman in history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director . When she found out about the nominations , Gerwig said she was " in various states of laughing and crying and yelling with joy . " In 2018 , after the success of '' Lady Bird '' , Gerwig was part of the voice cast of Wes Anderson 's stop-motion animated film '' Isle of Dogs '' , which premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
68th Berlin International Film Festival
68th Berlin International Film Festival
Greta Gerwig