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
90th Academy Awards
90th Academy Awards
Greta Gerwig