A year ago, it appeared that perhaps we would be living in a post-COVID world by now, the once-usual certainties again certain, including movie production schedules and release dates. That particular future is still nebulously ahead of us, as is the diverse utopia that Hollywood studio moviemaking is still far from becoming, despite new initiatives introduced over the previous decade to fix that unrelenting “problem.” Audiences are often quick to pounce on The Academy when its nominees lack diversity, but Oscar voting members are limited to primarily studio output, where measurable diversity in the director’s chair has been stagnant, year , after year , after year .
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