This modestly increased representation of female nominees comes at a time when women in Hollywood have become increasingly vocal about inequality and injustice in the workplace through the Time’s Up movement.

Indeed, many of the films under consideration for Best Picture depict strong women finding their voice – and have well and truly earned their spots on our list of films every feminist needs to watch in 2018.

And yet…

While the nominations list has filled us with hope for progress, there is still a long way to go: Patty Jenkins has again been ignored for helming the critically-acclaimed Wonder Woman, the highest-grossing superhero origin movie of all time and the most successful film ever made by a female director.

African-American filmmaker Dee Rees has not been recognised for her period drama Mudbound, a devastating look at historic racial and class divides in the United States that has been widely praised for its direction.

And, when you tally it all up, only one woman has been nominated out of the 10 Best Picture slots, one woman for Best Director out of five slots, and zero women of colour in either category.

Actress Amber Tamblyn highlighted the issue in a series of tweets, writing: “The Oscar nominations are not just a problem of exclusion. This is a problem of representation.

“There needs to be more films written and directed by women and women of colour, PERIOD.”

This is what we really learned from the 2018 Oscars nominations list