Earning an Oscar is deemed an aspiration come true, but Nicole Kidman saw it as a wake-up call. In 2003, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Hours, a watershed moment in her career.

With what a hot favourite Nicole Kidman is in the awards circuit, is Babygirl's Oscars snub indicative of a larger pattern at what the Academy deems fit? Cinema is art. And art is all-encompassing.