With Oscar nominations, women are forced to take a big step backward

When Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director in 2010, she said in her acceptance speech, "This is, again, the moment of a lifetime." In 2020, when presenter Issa Rae announced the Oscar nominations, she said of the all-male field of best director, "Congratulations to those men." Perhaps nowhere is this more blatant than in the lack of a nomination for powerhouse Sarah Polley, whose film "Women Talking" is up for best picture and best adapted screenplay. With their best director nominations, the Academy proved they don't want to listen to women talking or recognize women working, not the Black women of "The Woman King" nor "Till." Here are the 2023 Academy Arts nominees: Best picture "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Avatar: The Way of Water" "The Banshees of Inisherin" "Elvis" "Everything Everywhere All at Once" "The Fabelmans" "Tár" "Top Gun: Maverick" "Triangle of Sadness" "Women Talking" Best director Martin McDonagh Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan Steven Spielberg Todd Field Ruben Östlund Best actress Ana de Armas Cate Blanchett Andrea Riseborough Michelle Yeoh Michelle Williams Best actor Paul Mescal Colin Farrell Austin Butler Bill Nighy Brendan Fraser Best supporting actress Kerry Condon Angela Bassett Jamie Lee Curtis Stephanie Hsu Hong Chau Best supporting actor Brendan Gleeson Barry Keoghan Brian Tyree Henry Ke Huy Quan Judd Hirsch Adapted screenplay Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell Rian Johnson Kazuo Ishiguro Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Sarah Polley Original screenplay Martin McDonagh Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner Todd Field Ruben Östlund Cinematography "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" "Elvis" "Empire of Light" "Tár" Costume design "Babylon" "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" "Elvis" "Everything Everywhere All at Once" "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" Film editing "The Banshees of Inisherin" "Elvis" "Everything Everywhere All at Once" "Tár" "Top Gun: Maverick" Makeup & hairstyling "All Quiet on the Western Front" "The Batman" "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" "Elvis" "The Whale" Production design "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Avatar: The Way of Water" "Babylon" "Elvis" "The Fabelmans" Original score "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Babylon" "The Banshees of Inisherin" "Everything Everywhere All at Once" "The Fabelmans" Original song "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" "RRR" "Tell It Like a Woman" "Top Gun: Maverick" "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Sound "All Quiet on the Western Front" "The Batman" "Avatar: The Way of Water" "Elvis" "Top Gun: Maverick" Visual effects "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Avatar: The Way of Water" "The Batman" "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" "Top Gun: Maverick" Animated feature "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" "The Sea Beast" "Turning Red" Documentary feature "All That Breathes" "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" "Fire of Love" "A House Made of Splinters" "Navalny" International feature "All Quiet on the Western Front" "Argentina, 1985" "Close" "Decision to Leave" "EO" "The Quiet Girl" Animated short "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" "The Flying Sailor" "Ice Merchants" "My Year of Dicks" "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" Documentary short "The Elephant Whisperers" "Haulout" "How Do You Measure a Year?"