Something is missing from the years Best Picture nominees.
Well, yes,The Woman King,TillandBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.
We know the black-themed films didnt register.
There was no love story.
Maybe film Academy voters just werent in the mood.
Admittedly, 2020 brought a close call.
But the winner,Nomadland, when you look closely, turns out to have been a love story.
Without the haunt of her lost, dead husband, Frances McDormand would have just been driving in circles.
In 2016, two romantic fables from the year before slugged it out.
It was a good year for love.
So was 2019.A Star Is Borndidnt win.
Granted, these mostly werent romantic in the grandest manner, likeTitanicorThe English Patientor evenShakespeare In Love.
But they kept romance alive.
They gave the Oscars a beating heart, which, sadly, they seem to lack this year.
