List of accolades received by Little Women (2019 film)
Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. The film chronicles the lives of the March sisters—Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth—in Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Civil War. Little Women stars an ensemble cast consisting of Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper.
The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on December 7, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 25, 2019, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Produced on a budget of $40 million, Little Women grossed $220 million worldwide, with a net profit of $56 million. The film was met with critical acclaim, with particular praise for its performances, as well as Gerwig's screenplay and direction. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Little Women holds an approval rating of 95% based on 441 critics' reviews.
At the 92nd Academy Awards, Little Women won Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran) and received nominations for Best Picture (Amy Pascal), Best Actress (Ronan), Best Supporting Actress (Pugh), Best Adapted Screenplay (Gerwig), and Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat). It also garnered five nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning Best Costume Design (Durran), and two nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards. The film received nine nominations at the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, winning Best Adapted Screenplay (Gerwig). The American Film Institute selected Little Women as one of the top-ten films of 2019. Time deemed it one of the 100 best movies of the 2010s, while the Writers Guild of America considered its screenplay the eighty-ninth greatest screenplay of the 21st century in 2021.