While Scott’s science-fiction films are vastly different from one another through their subgenres and visual design, their uniting factor—and thus, Scott’s stylistic unifier—is their emphasis on humanity.

In Better Days, director Derek Tsang situates [the theme of loss of innocence] within the context of school bullying, at once telling the story of a young girl’s journey to adulthood and critiquing the broader societal factors that make her path particularly painful.

Although asexual representation is sparse in the media as a whole, BoJack Horseman has a number of canon asexual characters, all of which unfortunately misconstrue the average viewer’s understanding of asexuality.

Ultimately, the film promotes a feminist story through the eyes of both a male protagonist and a male filmmaker in writer/director Noah Baumbach; rather than using it for its typical voyeuristic form, Marriage Story uses the male gaze in order to attack the world view it represents.

Drive My Car is certainly an eccentric film especially compared to other star-studded Oscar nominees that offered mind-blowing cinematography or a Beyonce soundtrack. Drive My Car is merely — as a friend of mine put it — people talking with each other in a car for three hours. Yet, the beauty of this piece lies in all these “talks” — after all, film is a form of audio-visual storytelling.