The movie received only lukewarm praise, but its topic, boosted by the presence of revered industry veteran Aaron Sorkin as writer and director, helped secure Best Actress and Best Actor nods for Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. The Academy's love for films about show business is reflected again in nominations for Being The Ricardos, a biopic about actress Lucille Ball and performer husband Desi Arnaz.
The French-Canadian film-maker was not expected to win that category - those behind science-fiction or superhero movies rarely do - but a Best Director nod seemed to be a given because of the film's impressive haul of 10 nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Hamaguchi's inclusion in the Best Director category left no space for Denis Villeneuve, who helmed Dune. While love has been lavished on Japanese film-maker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car, a drama about grief - it is nominated in the Best Picture and Best Director categories - Hamaguchi is an industry veteran and the film's central character is a theatre director, which taps into Hollywood's incestuous bias for films about itself. The fact that so many films by established, white, male film-makers made the cut in the Best Picture and Best Director categories shows that the efforts made in recent months by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be more racially- and gender-diverse has some way to go.
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