Oscar rivals Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach reveal how they found out they were nominated

"Well, he's got good news, at least."
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Rachel Thompson
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Oscar rivals Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach reveal how they found out they were nominated
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Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach were not waiting by the phone when the Oscar nominations were revealed.

Instead, they were chilling with their 10-month-old baby, Harold.

You should probably already know this, but Gerwig directed Little Women featuring Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Florence Pugh, and Emma Watson. Baumbach, meanwhile, directed Marriage Story featuring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Laura Dern.

Both movies are nominated for six Academy Awards each.

So, what was it like in the Gerwig-Baumbach household on the morning of Oscar nominations? "Well we have a 10-month-old baby who tends to get up early and so Harold woke up and Greta brought Harold in bed and we were just hanging out and not looking at anything," Baumbach told James Corden on The Late Late Show.

"I saw from across the room, I saw your phone kept lighting up and was like, 'Well, he's got good news, at least,'" said Gerwig. At some point, the pair did get up to go check their phones. "We dropped the baby and ran," Baumbach joked.

Don't worry Harold, your time will come.

Topics Oscars

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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