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    Mary McNamara: Netflix isn't disrupting anything when it comes to Oscar nominations and diversity

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2020 4 minutes

    What is the point of Netflix if the year that it receives more Oscar nominations than any other studio is the year that we return to the status quo of no female directing nominees and exactly one person of color nominated in the acting categories?

    Seriously, is this the brave new world of streaming? Where press releases go out daily about the wildly "diverse" television creators drafted by Netflix (and to a lesser extent Amazon) but the Oscar-nominated Netflix films come from Martin Scorsese and Noah Baumbach?

    This isn't changing the film industry; this is gaming the film industry, leveraging the grand traditions of awards season -

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