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The South Korean film parasite was nominated for The Best Director in the year in Oscar history to win by becoming The First non-English language film The Best picture. Bong Joon-Ho also won best Director for the film, But his Success - he won four awards - still not silenced the critics have highlighted the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar categories.

no women were nominated in the category best Director - " Greta Gerwig , missed as the Director of Little Women , which means that your nomination for Lady Bird, in the year 2018 was the only Director in The Last 10 years.

There have only nominated five women as The Best Director in the awards' 92-year history, with only one winner: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.

In the directing category, and no women were nominated for either the Golden Globes or the Baftas this year.

Florence Pugh , who was nominated in The Best actress in a supporting role category for her role as Amy in Little Women , told Bbc News : "It is sad. But the fact that last year we had more female writers and Directors than ever before, and we are still against him is quite an obvious problem. But we talk about it, and I hope it is changing. "

It is worth noting that " Greta nominated Gerwig was for best adapted screenplay for Little Women and the film was nominated for best Film.

"What makes it so shocking is that I've seen more inspiring movies of women in 2019, and in any other year that I've been a critic," Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, the chief film critic for the Metro, said Reality Check .

"I don't find that discouraging and I hope it is disheartening for the women-film-makers. "

What's with the actors?

In the acting categories, Cynthia Erivo , the only non-white candidate was to nominate. It was for best actress in a leading role for the title role in Harriet, a film about a slave became an abolitionist.

The category was won by Renee Zellweger for her portrayal of Judy Garland .

In the year 2019, three of The Four acting categories were won by non-white cast members: Rami Malek , Mahershala Ali , and Regina King . Olivia Colman won the fourth for their performance in The favorites.

We've looked through all of the nominations in The Last 10 years, and of the 200 nominees in The Four acting categories, it non-recognised 26 white players, with seven of them winning their categories.

The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag started in the years 2015 and 2016, if there is no non-white nominees in the acting categories for two years in a row.

The Academy said it had taken steps to have a more diverse membership in the year 2016, But many people nominated in the case of Twitter, the hashtag back after The Announcement for the year 2020.

When suggesting that Lupita Nyong'o was this year nominated for her performance in the Us, although they also said that The Academy might be more likely to see horror films.

Ms Nyong'o was awarded an Oscar in 2014 for 12 years a slave.

This piece was originally published on 13 January, in the time of The Oscar nominations. It has been updated to The Oscar Results .

Source of news: bbc.com