Natalie Portman’s Oscar Outfit Honors Snubbed Female Directors

I'm a woman but in all honesty, those films didn't deserve to be nominated for Best Director. I mean Hustlers? Come on.

'Making a statement', but still going to the Oscars, supporting Hollywood, working with those male directors, living the good life with the money she earns from that rotten world, etc.

Not Snubbed...Just not as good.

Laud her all you want but without her pointing it out, I never would have known what the teeny tiny embroidery on the hem of her cape was supposed to be. That's a big-a*s cape; if she wanted to make a proper statement, couldn't the names be stitched on in a larger font?

Another hashtag activist.Her dress saved millions of people in the world.I guess her powerful speech cured cancer and made blind people see.Hollywood is so good at fighting against everything bad in this world.Thank you Natalie,thank you hollywood

Let's make the Oscars a participation trophy. Everybody gets one

Once again diversity for diversity sake..yet lets direct c**p like Charlie's angels. Yet the media would be celebrating if all the noms were women and men got left off

Natalie Portman's own production company "Handomecharliefilms" has never hired a female director other than herself. There was 8 chances she had to put women in a position of being nominated at the Oscars but she choose to hire male directors instead. Interesting...

It seems to be the day and age where gender and race are more important than what you actually accomplished or created. In contests we don't have winners or losers anymore, everyone needs to get a participation award. I can remember when only kids in kindergarten got them.

Wow, she looks stunning

So if you're black and/or female and/or transgender etc you should automatically be nominated for an Oscar? Yeah, really empowering.

Future Oscars will simply automatically hand out statues to all non-whites. Merit no longer required. Happy?

As has already been pointed out Natalie has her own production company that to date has only hired one female director. But wearing a dress worth more than most peoples houses will show everyone she’s all about equality

Unfortunately, real life is not like kindergarten, where everybody gets a prize so that nobody feels "rejected". The world is competitive, too much sometimes, especially if money is involved. Some actors have refused to participate in the Oscars circus, but these "empowered women" want their cake and eat it: they want to be there, and they want to win, and when they don't win they play the discrimination card and claim they didn't win because of gender bias. If you think Hollywood is biased do something meaningful about it, like starting your own company and making the films you want.

I'm guessing it wasn't her idea. Chances are a designer out there was hoping to make a name for themselves, created something controversial, found a celebrity who was willing to wear it and viola.....instant fame.

Oh my gosh, guys, she’s trying to make a point here. It may not be spot on, but it’s definitely accurate in saying that women are rarely noticed for amazing films while men have been nominated for absolute c**p. Ease up a little. I personally LOVED Hustlers!

It's a powerful statement, but I feel like Michael Scott should have been included. Obviously not for an Oscar, he was robbed of Emmy and that's not ever going to be okay.