...Partly because it's not really about the Oscars. It's about how Hollywood movies consistently under- or misrepresent women, an analysis made here by applying "the Bechdel test" to Oscar nominees. It also varies the test for other marginalized and minoritized groups. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8JuizIXw8 

The video ends by sort of exhorting Hollywood to make more meaningfully "female-centred" films. I'm not convinced that's the answer. But the analysis in itself is a compelling and elegant form of content analysis.