Streisand cites Oscar sexism

Barbra Streisand says sexism cost her multiple Oscar nominations over the years. Variety reports Streisand told director Robert Rodriguez at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York that “there were a lot of older people” who didn’t want to see a woman director. She said even some female critics targeted her because of her gender. Streisand’s Yentl was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1984. Streisand received a best director nod, but the film missed out on a best picture nomination. She says the snub was to blame, in part, for her hiatus from directing until The Prince of Tides (1991). That movie earned a best picture nomination, but Streisand was left off the best director list.