Oscars 2021: Five years since diversity debate, is The Academy likely on the verge of making award-season history?
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Oscars 2021: Five years since diversity debate, is The Academy likely on the verge of making award-season history?

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From Riz Ahmed becoming the first Muslim nominated for best actor, to Chloé Zhao’s nomination as the first woman of colour in the directing category, this year’s eclectic mix practically ensures Oscar history will be made. Best Actor and Best Actress Chadwick Boseman’s best-actor victory for _Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom i_s so assured that you’d be forgiven for forgetting how rare a posthumous Oscar win actually is. Dual wins for Davis and Boseman would also make _Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom t_he eighth movie to take both lead-acting Oscars — a feat not managed since 1997’s As Good as It Gets — and the first to ever do it without a best-picture nomination. That snub feels especially egregious now since the film is well-positioned for two other wins, both of which would also make history: Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson may become the first Black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling, while the 89-year-old costume designer Ann Roth is poised to become the oldest woman to ever win an Oscar.

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