The Oscars: A Grump Fest About the Possibility of Minority Nominees

The Oscar nominations were announced today and like every year for the last, I think six, the celebration of the glories of cinema became a grump fest about the posity of female or minority nominees. In 2018, Greta Gerwig was once again left off the best director list, causing Natalie Portman to say, and here are the all-male nominees. Maybe it's possible that on artistic merits, Little Women wasn't as well directed a film as the Irishman or 1917 or the other three movies that were nominated. What does that even mean? The Oscars these days seem not to define great directing as people mostly talking in rooms.