people accuse cannes festival of sexism every year as well, and i think that has more of a basis (on a few occasions they've snubbed popular, acclaimed female directors for unknown males for no apparent reason), but even then the problem is more with the film industry not giving female directors the same trust/backing and whatnot, and there being a much smaller pool of female directors to choose from vs. male, etc. granted, as supposed pioneers of progressivism i imagine both cannes and the academy could do more to encourage equality than they actually do, but it isn't, like, their job, so what do people expect? if they start introducing quotas or something it'll just cause an uproar from the opposite side.