Geena Davis was widely celebrated after she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1989, but the reception she got from a few directors was less than enthusiastic.

While chatting with the "Allison Interviews" podcast, Geena recalled how she felt after the honor.
"I didn't ever think, 'This is my magic ticket to doing everything I want to do,' or, like, now I was at the top of the A-list, or anything like that," she said. "I didn't think of it that way, but I did unexpectedly feel a tremendous feeling of having accomplished something. I thought, 'Well, I got that out of the way. I never have to wonder if I'm going to get one of these things.'"
A few unnamed directors, though, wanted to flex their muscles after she won the coveted award for her performance in "The Accidental Tourist."
"I had two directors, after I won the Oscar, who I had a rocky start with, because they assumed that I was going to think I was 'all that,' and they wanted to make sure that I didn't feel like I was 'all that,'" she recalled.

"Without having met me or having spent any time with me or anything, they just assumed I was going to be like, 'Well, now no one is going to tell me what to do!'" she continued. "I think maybe because I was a woman, the directors felt that way. And maybe it was even unconscious bias that they would maybe do it to a woman and not a man. But they didn't want a woman to potentially cause them any problems. They wanted to make sure I knew my place, and maybe … it probably wouldn't happen to a man."
Geena went on to be nominated for another Oscar after 1991's "Thelma and Louise."