“You know it’s a bad year for women when none of the best picture nominees even features one in a lead performance. Both Good Night, and Good Luck and Munich present almost entirely hermetically sealed male universes, while Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Crash feature women as ignored wives and gal pals… [Historically,] only 7% of the 250 top-grossing films were made with female directors. No woman has ever won the best director Oscar; only three have been nominated.”