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We’re probably looking at a historic set of Oscar nominees for director this year, and the news could go several different ways.
There could be two women or possibly three. There could be two nominees of Asian descent. The slate could have a majority of nonwhite nominees.
For the record:
5:47 PM, Feb. 22, 2021An earlier version of this post omitted Preston Sturges and Joan Harrison from a list of screenwriters nominated for two Oscars in the same year.
Any one of these outcomes would be groundbreaking and a possible sign of progress or, since this is the Oscars, it could be an anomaly and we’re back to business as usual in 2022. And not in the way we want to be back to business as usual in 2022: watching movies in theaters, without masks and without worrying about why the dude behind us keeps coughing.