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Variety is flagging an early warning that the Oscars may be drifting back toward the exclusionary patterns that sparked the #OscarsSoWhite movement less than a decade ago. The trade notes that Michael B. Jordan's March win for "Sinners" and that film's record-breaking nomination haul could read as progress already achieved, masking how thin the pipeline remains for sustained recognition across categories. The piece frames Zendaya, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal and others as potential bulwarks against regression, but the question itself implies how precarious that progress still is.
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