4 pressing questions ahead of Tuesday's Oscar nominations


              This image released by Fox Searchlight shows Frances McDormand , from left, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in a scene from "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." The film won a Golden Globe for best motion picture drama and is a contender for an Oscar for best picture. (Merrick Morton/Fox Searchlight via AP)
This image released by Fox Searchlight shows Frances McDormand , from left, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in a scene from "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." The film won a Golden Globe for best motion picture drama and is a contender for an Oscar for best picture. (Merrick Morton/Fox Searchlight via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar nominations balloting might be finished but Hollywood's "Me Too" moment has kept right on going.

When Academy Awards nominations are announced Tuesday morning, it might be a brief, celebratory reprieve for an industry enflamed by sexual harassment scandals and gender equality protests. Or it might just add more fuel to the fire.

Will the motion picture academy, as it has done in 85 out of 89 years, field an all-male field of film directors? Will James Franco squeak into the best actor category after several women made allegations against him of sexual impropriates while filming sex scenes? Franco denied the claims on late-night shows just days before nomination voting closed last Friday.

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