OSCARS: A RECORD YEAR FOR WOMEN, BUT IS IT PROGRESS?
At the glad-handy Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this month, film academy president John Bailey proudly told the 171 nominees in the room that there were a record number of women nominated for Academy Awards this year. The statement seemed to take everyone a moment to process, or calculate, but soon Lady Gaga, Amy Adams, “Black Panther” costumer Ruth E. Carter and others were applauding.
Numbers-wise, women did have a comparatively good year. In the 20 non-gendered categories, 52 individual
