{"id":39289,"date":"2018-03-05T23:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T04:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2018-03-08T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:18:00","slug":"my-best-dressed-at-the-2018-oscars-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2018-oscars-is\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Dressed at the 2018 Oscars Is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s Academy Awards — the 90th such ceremony but the first of the #TimesUp<\/a>, post-Harvey Weinstein era<\/a> —\u00a0 had its highs and lows, both off the red carpet and on it. And there’s no getting to the red carpet without dealing with everything else first.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, Jordan Peele was nominated for Best Director for his debut movie, Get Out<\/em> — making him the fifth black director in the history of the awards<\/a> to be recognized in the category. Similarly, Greta Gerwig was celebrated as the fifth woman ever nominated for Best Director<\/a>, for her first solo effort, Lady Bird<\/em>.\u00a0 They and fellow nominees Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread<\/em>) and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk<\/em>) lost to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water<\/em> — a movie that I loved, but which left a lot of other movie viewers lukewarm. Peele still made history by becoming the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay<\/a> (he was only the fourth black screenwriter nominated).<\/p>\n

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