Four years ago, we analyzed Oscar nominees for Best Picture against the Bechdel Test, a metric commonly used among critics and moviegoers. The test poses three questions:

The test is named for Alison Bechdel, an illustrator who, in 1985, presented the rule in an installment of her “Dykes to Watch Out For” comic strip. The Bechdel Test is not a perfect feminist litmus test. Films that do not pass may still dispel gender stereotypes or feature nuanced characters who exist outside the bounds of conventional Hollywood story lines. Conversely, some films that pass may do so on a technicality, through a fleeting, perhaps inconsequential, exchange between two women. And while the Bechdel Test is perhaps the most well-known metric, it is by no means the only way to measure inclusivity in film. Many new tests have emerged that further address gender stereotypes or measure for bias against race or ethnicity, including the DuVernay Test, coined by the film critic Manohla Dargis in honor of the filmmaker Ava DuVernay, which is meant to gauge whether “African-Americans and other minorities have fully realized lives rather than serve as scenery in white stories.” Many of these evaluations look behind the camera as well, an especially important endeavor given that, according to the Women’s Media Center, “77 percent of all Oscar nominees in behind-the-scenes roles are men.”

Still, the Bechdel Test remains useful for how little it asks of movies, and for the sobering fact that many films still fail to meet its basic criteria. When we last evaluated the Best Picture nominees, in 2014, only four of nine films passed. This year, which saw the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, was historic for women’s voices being heard in Hollywood and beyond. As Richard Brody wrote in a post earlier this week sharing his Oscar predictions, change in Hollywood is slow, but it is happening, ever so gradually. Let’s revisit the Bechdel Test to see how many of the films the Academy chose to honor this year stack up.

Each of this year’s Best Picture nominees is pitted against another favorite from the past. In each case, one satisfies the Bechdel Test; the other doesn’t.