No worries, I'm not gonna restart my entries on each of the categories, as I once did. Last year, however, I got the impression of some attenuation of the "politically correct" attitude that perturbs the Oscars since a while ago. Not that these are the only awards suffering of such issue - just look at the discussions stirred by the BAFTA nominations of this year. Well, look at the Oscars list for directing, it's the same, talking about some of the reported "inequalities", and that's simply because it's just probably the best selection of this year for directing.
With all the risks, I said it before, and I'll keep saying it, discussions on race, gender, or whatever else equality are valid in many situations but not that normal in the context of some awards given on artistic criteria. It's like someone would revolt on the lack of equal appreciation for jazz singers from Asia, or on the reason of why don't we have recognized black renaissance painters. The simple answer is that from a set of nine green balls and one red ball, it's perfectly normal that one of the green balls to probably be the most "spherical perfect" of them all. Why from start we have nine green and just one red? that's a very reasonable subject to debate of how we got into this situation. But once we have what we have, the choice criteria of a movie/person/etc normally should strictly depend on the artistic value of the nomination and not be altered by other discussions with social implications. Anyway, long story short, as usual the best source for the nominees list is on IMDb = at this address, where we easily can get to more details.
Probably, as we get closer to the awards, I'll dedicate one more entry for some predictions, but again, as usual - the awards mean less, more important is the nominees list which brings to light sometime some really good movies, especially in the categories that are more low profile = foreign movie, screenplay, etc. So, enjoy watching ;)
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