Your constant commentary on this is bloated and counter productive. We need to be having a discussion whereby we’re saying a film doesn’t have to be political. It can simply be about anything. As long as it’s good! And Wonder Woman as best picture or best actress? Please. The film was a piece of shit. Come on guys! I’m hearing rumours that however current ‘The Post’ seems to be, it’s also looking in bad shape and needs heavily recutting. The only films that look even remotely worthy this year are ‘Last Flag Flying’, ‘The Florida project’, ‘Call me by your name’ and of course ‘Phantom Thread’ (come on Anderson!!!) More films like this please.

I would agree with you if WW was the lone bastion of female-fronted movies in the conversation this year. Then it would definitely get a nom as the token “girl power” movie. But the voters have so many more — and so many better — female-fronted films to choose from this year: Three Billboards, Shape Of Water, Lady Bird, I Tonya, The Florida Project, The Post, Molly’s Game, Battle Of The Sexes. Academy members aren’t exactly starved for choice this year, so there’s no way they will stoop so low as to nominate a mediocre superhero movie for Best Picture.

Remember when Idris Elba was basically the lone representative of non-white actors in the conversation a couple of years ago? And yet the voters still decided they’d rather not nominate him for Beasts Of No Nation and face the inevitable #OscarsSoWhite backlash than acknowledge that Netflix was a viable movie studio. There’s no way they’re reversing decades of genre bias for WW, either, especially when they don’t have to.

Now, with the Weinstein scandal, every Oscar voter out there will want to show their support for strong women in the industry, hence why WW and maybe Patty Jenkins (hell, maybe even Gal Gadot) will get nominations. Movie doesn’t deserve it, but it’s a weak year and Oscar voters loooove sending a message, so yeah…it’ll happen.