When Quentin Tarantino strode onstage last night at the Academy Awards ceremony to hand out Best Director, it was an indicator of two things. The first was that last year’s winner in the category, Christopher Nolan, was unavailable. Nolan is currently in Marrakech working on his star-studded, carte blanche adaptation of The Odyssey , an almost self-parodically grand project made possible by the world-beating success of Oppenheimer and whose production also potentially explained the absences of