If you look at the list of nominated films for this year's Baftas, there's good news in terms of the number of female-centric films nominated, but shockingly bad news in that no female director is down for best film, outstanding British film, film not in the English language, nor animated film.
Its four leads — Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis — were nominated for their performances, and the film was one of five nominated for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.
Andrea Riseborough is perched on her bags in the hallway of her hotel (no room key yet), rattling down the line about the honour of being nominated – for a Bafta rising star award – and how she fell in love with an American (for her sins) and moved to Idaho in the middle of nowhere, to a haven in the woods, which is beautiful.
"We gave them pizza and beer". Since 2014, Polatin and Brunstetter said they have experienced a spike in the number of nominators taking part in The List and the number of nominated plays eligible for recognition, partially due to the fact that they invited people to request to be a nominator for 2016's list.
This man who, when we presented him with our list of nominated truth commissioners for him to make the final cut, asked first, "Have we sufficient women on the list?
His screenplay for "You Can Count on Me" and his work on "Gangs of New York" were nominated for Academy Awards.
And a first collection makes up his debut album: Ground of Its Own, nominated for a Mercury award last month.
The project, one of only three nominated for web excellence, combines Guardian reporting with verified crowdsourced information to build a more comprehensive record of such fatalities.
It's hard to think of any American nominated for the lofty post who has had less experience in navigating existential issues of war and peace.
Paul Weitz, who was one of three people nominated for "About a Boy" in the best adapted screenplay category, joked that "everyone in Hollywood, I hear, is overpaid anyway, so I don't think it will help us".
