As anyone who suffers the Academy Awards nonsense knows, the new mandate in Tinseltown is “diversity.” There have to be “people of color” in every nomination category now. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that women keep getting the short end of things when it comes to scripts of Best Picture winners. (I haven’t seen data for the last eight years, but I doubt there’s been much change.)
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