It's the Year of the Auteur at the 2018 Oscars
After every Oscar-nomination morning, pundits scour the list for important milestones and bit of trivia. Sometimes the landmarks or patterns are obvious, like the slate of all-white acting nominees in 2015 and 2016 that drove the #OscarsSoWhite protest and a serious effort to reform the Academy’s voter body. Among this year’s honorees, though, a more unusual (and encouraging) statistic emerged: This is the first time in 90 years that all five Best Director nominees also wrote their movies.
In general, 2017 despite not appearing in a single frame. The same went for Jordan Peele and his dark horror satire , and certainly for Christopher Nolan and the bombastic epic . The other directing nominees were Guillermo del Toro for and Paul Thomas Anderson for , two of the most highly regarded auteurs in recent Hollywood history.
