Ah, it’s that time of year again. Time for me to become irrationally angry at a group of old white people voting for awards that don’t actually mean anything. I can remember the exact moment last year, finishing up my Oscars post, that I decided to delete my lengthy rant about how Green Book would probably win and replace it with the far more hopeful prediction of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma. “It’s very possible,” I wrote at the time, “that the members of the Academy became aware of all of this criticism [re: Green Book] before voting, and not wanting to come out of this year looking like fools, have opted to cast their votes elsewhere.”

We now know that the fool… was me. 

A year has passed, and although I am older and wiser, the pool of nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards does not display much growth. The nominations continue to be #sowhite, with not a single person of color nominated in the supporting actor or actress categories, and women have yet again been boxed out of the race for best Directing. Are we surprised? No! Are we angry? Yes! Will I be soap-boxing more throughout this post? Read on to find out!!!