2018 Oscars misses women directors

The 2019 Academy Award nominations are in and the nominees are… mostly white and very male.
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Image: Tomasin McKenzie in Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.

While the Oscars did provide a few very exciting choices, ranging from Spike Lee’s first Best Director nomination, Roma’s Yalitza Aparicio in Best Actress and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed in Original Screenplay, it is overall a rather disappointing bunch of nominees considering the incredible depth of films released in the past year.

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Grace Boschetti
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Grace Boschetti is a film student, awards obsessive and keen observer of media trends.