'As sad as it may be that we can now celebrate that 3.1% of all directing Oscars have gone to women, it’s even sadder that we aren’t, because everyone is so busy talking about how the academy handed Will Smith an Oscar minutes after he clocked Chris Rock.'
Women made Oscar history Sunday night, but it was a man who managed to hijack the headlines.
— “The Power of the Dog” and “CODA.” “CODA’s” director, Sian Heder, was not nominated in the directing category, but she won for best adapted screenplay . And when “CODA” took best picture, it was only the third time in 94 years that a female-directed film had won.Producers and the cast of “CODA” after winning the award for best picture.Yes, that was the most chaotic Oscars in history
You know what’s not progress? Having a man excuse any sort of violence by saying “love will make you do crazy things.” Rock’s joke about Jada’s shaved head was crass , but too many women have heard variations of “love makes me crazy” far too often. Every category that followed, beginning with the award for documentary that Rock, amazingly, managed to present to Questlove for “Summer of Soul,” occurred in a stomach-clenching, anxiety-riddled, dumbstruck vacuum. It was hard to focus on Questlove’s remarks — at times, it appeared, even for Questlove.
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