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    Analysis: New Academy, new Oscars. Sort of.

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Change is hard. It never happens quite like you want it to and most of the time it is very, very messy.

    This year's Oscars reflected an institution in the midst of great change.

    Three years after #Oscarssowhite, the largest and most diverse Academy membership in history made history with first-time wins for black female filmmakers and a record number of awards for black filmmakers. They gave an Oscar to the female creators of a short film about menstruation, the first Pixar film directed solely by

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