Editing Julie Delpy (section)

==Writing and directing==
Delpy began being interested in a film-directing career when still a child, and enrolled in a summer directing course at [[New York University]]. She wrote and directed the short film ''Blah Blah Blah'' in 1995 which screened at the [[Sundance Film Festival]]. In 2004, she co-wrote ''Before Sunset'', a sequel to the 1995 movie ''Before Sunrise'', with director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke. Describing the experience, she said, "I'm not a feminist wearing overalls and hating the male gender. But I'm a definite feminist. I don't want to make ''Before Sunset'' into a little male fantasy, ever."<ref>[http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/delpy.-feminist-and-proud Delpy: Feminist And Proud.] Contact Music.com, 23 July 2004. Accessed 13 March 2013.</ref> She received an Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] for her work on the film.

She made her [[feature length]] directorial debut in 2002 with ''Looking for Jimmy,'' which she also wrote and produced. In 2007 she directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced the original score for ''[[2 Days in Paris]],'' co-starring [[Adam Goldberg]]. It also features Delpy's real-life parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy, as her character's parents.<ref>{{cite web|title=Julie Delpy Biography (1969-)|url=http://www.fullissue.com/index.php/julie-delpy-biography-1969.html|work=Full Issue|access-date=9 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322021635/http://www.fullissue.com/index.php/julie-delpy-biography-1969.html|archive-date=22 March 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
[[File:Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, red carpet for the premiere of "Before Midnight" (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Delpy with frequent co-star [[Ethan Hawke]] in 2013]]
In 2011 she wrote and directed ''Le Skylab,'' which received a theatrical release in France but failed to find distribution in the U.S. In 2012 she released ''[[2 Days in New York]]'', a sequel to her 2007 film ''2 Days in Paris,'' starring Delpy and actor [[Chris Rock]] in a role she said she wrote specifically for him. In 2013, she reunited with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke to write ''Before Midnight'', the sequel to ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Before Sunset''. She again starred with Hawke, and the film premiered at the [[2013 Sundance Film Festival]]. It screened out of competition at the [[63rd Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin International Film Festival]] and was released in May 2013. Delpy, Linklater and Hawke were later nominated for a [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] at the [[Academy Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/86/nominees.html|title=2014|work=Oscars.org - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=7 October 2014 }}</ref> Responding to criticism of the film's nudity, Delpy said in interview with ''[[GQ Magazine]]'':

<blockquote>Some people were like, 'It's not feminist. You're showing your tits and he's not showing his ass.' [But] isn't it the people who are hiding women behind layers of clothes who are the misogynists? I'm a real person, so it's a statement to say, 'Alright, I'm a forty year-old woman, and this is what you get with no plastic surgery.'<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/story/before-midnights-julie-delpy-interview|title=Julie Delpy Explains Before Midnight, Feminism, and Onscreen Nudity|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=March 30, 2017}}</ref></blockquote>

''[[Lolo (film)|Lolo]]'' was Delpy's second French-language feature film, and the first she'd directed since ''2 Days in New York''. She was also slated to write and direct the [[HBO]] movie ''Cancer Vixen'', starring [[Cate Blanchett]] as [[Marisa Acocella Marchetto]], a cartoonist for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' who is diagnosed with cancer.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|title=Cate Blanchett Developing 'Cancer Vixen' at HBO|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cate-blanchett-developing-cancer-vixen-427983|access-date=15 September 2013|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=12 March 2013}}</ref> The project has yet to materialize as of 2020.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}} In early 2014, Delpy announced her next writing-directing project would be ''A Dazzling Display of Splendor'' and focus on a family of [[vaudeville]] performers.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kroll|first1=Justin|title=Worldview to Finance Julie Delpy's 'A Dazzling Display of Splendor'|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/worldview-to-finance-julie-delpys-a-dazzling-display-of-splendor-1201086368/|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=17 September 2014|date=4 February 2014}}</ref> It has also failed to enter production as of 2020.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}}

Delpy courted controversy in 2016 when the Oscar nominations included no Black honorees. "Two years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media ... It's funny—women can't talk. I sometimes wish I were African-American because people don't bash them afterward."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thewrap.com/julie-delpy-hollywood-dumps-women-sometimes-wish-african-american/|title=Julie Delpy Says Hollywood Dumps on Women Most: 'I Sometimes Wish I Were African American' (Video)|newspaper=Thewrap |date=22 January 2016}}</ref> She later apologized for the comment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Julie Delpy sorry for Hollywood diversity comments|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/01/23/julie-delpy-sorry-comments-hollywood-diversity/|access-date=2021-09-07|website=EW.com|language=en}}</ref>