Short-sighted Hollywood already forgot the fantastic Yesterday

The Academy Awards didn’t get the Oscar nominations right Monday morning because they didn’t get Yesterday right.

The joyously creative movie Yesterday, accurately described in Forbes as the “summer’s lone sleeper hit,” received not a single Academy Award nomination. Instead, the Oscar nominations are dominated by the usual mix of the pompous, the dark and moody, the homages to Hollywood itself, and, of course, the annual over-stylized mob flick. (Okay, Little Women, which I haven’t seen yet but I’m told is wonderful, doesn’t fit any of these categories, but Hollywood likes it probably because Hollywood considers it to be slyly feminist more than because the academy actually recognizes quality.)