https://variety.com/2023/awards/awards/2023-dga-nominations-steven-spielberg-daniels-1235485855/
The entertainment media is a primary driver of woke nonsense, but I'd just like to point out that the movies that got nominate for best picture at the DGA awards are actually devastating to the narrative that superficial "representation" matters.
Why?
Because in spite of all the films being directed by male directors, half of them are stories about women, and the actresses that played those women -- Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh -- turned in some of the best performances of their entire careers in these films.
So here we have men directing women in brilliant performances telling stories about women, and they're some of the best films of the year.
Is there some reason to believe that if Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert or Todd Field had been replaced by female directors, their films would have been better? Is there something about their gender that makes them less capable of telling stories about women?
And if so, then why have so many women praised those films and the lead characters in them?
If that kind of representation actually mattered the way Variety likes to claim, then you'd think that films about women directed by men would be bad. But it turns out that there is no inherent connection between being a good or a bad director or being able to tell good stories about other people and gender.