After Chloé Zhao’s historic win at this year’s Oscars, will we have to wait another decade for our next female Best Director winner?

Over at Next Best Picture, I break down the top ten contenders who could follow in Zhao's footsteps this awards season to snag a Best Director nomination - or statue 😉

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At LONG last, we’ve come to the end of the elongated 2020-2021 awards season and, as such, here are my and my fellow senior staff writer Bernard Ozarowski’s final predictions for Sunday’s Oscars ceremony!

(Casual reminder: I know nothing.)

MY FRIENDS AND I JUST FOUND THE HOUSE WE’LL BE LIVING IN WHEN WE MOVE TO LA THIS JUNE SO OF COURSE I HAD TO REWATCH THIS NOW

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Getting back into my Best Picture marathon and... this was somewhat of a rough start 🥴

The Last Emperor certainly isn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, but in spite of all its elegance, it just left me feeling... empty? I tend to be hit-or-miss with epics (for every Gone with the Wind there’s an English Patient), and this one just didn’t feel like it had the substance to match its sumptuous style. Paints its protagonist with too broad a brush, IMO.

Oh well, onto the next.

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The A-Force moment in Avengers: Endgame wants what Éowyn‘s “I 👏🏻 AM 👏🏻 NO 👏🏻 MAN 👏🏻“ has

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