Entertainment
How the Oscars managed to catch up with the times – Sydney Morning Herald
The nominations include for the first time two female directors and the most diverse field of acting nominees in Academy Awards history.
The touchingly human Nomadland has Frances McDormand – a two-time Oscar winner who is nominated again for both acting and producing – as an itinerant worker cast adrift by the economic, social and spiritual decline of middle America.
And Fennells fiercely satirical Promising Young Woman has Carey Mulligan – who has her second Oscar nomination – as a troubled former medical student who wants revenge for a sexual assault on her best friend.
The nominations, announced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick…
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