Is This the Year the Oscars Finally Embrace Hunks?

It seems as if every year at the Oscars, another of the Academy’s old biases falls by the wayside. Genre films like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Barbie, and Sinners now rack up major nominations. International contenders regularly compete all across the ballot. More work remains to be done — infamously, there has still never been a Black Best Director winner — but it’s heartening to see the definition of what, and who, is considered Oscar-worthy expand beyond the narrow confines of yore.