“We fiery young feminists said, ‘We’re going to create our own kind of culture.’”

— Julia Reichert, director of the documentary “American Factory”

What would the Oscars look like if they weren’t #sowhite and #somale?

Perhaps a little like the documentary category.

Four of the five feature documentaries nominated for an award on Sunday are directed or co-directed by women. Three of those stories revolve around women, focused on their daily struggles and lived experiences. And all of them feature a diversity of languages.

“When I first became a board member, I, along with a number of other people, had concerns that we weren’t really representing the world,” said Rory Kennedy, a documentary filmmaker who in 2015 became the board governor of the Academy’s documentary branch. Among other things, the branch is responsible for drawing up a preliminary list and whittling it down to the final five documentaries for the rest of the Academy to vote on.