Yes, they are strongly set in the "not-now." But they don't, imo, rise to the level of what you implied the collective Academy was sorta going for in making the nominations.
In fact, if they weren't tied to specific actual events that happened to have happened a decade ago, nothing about the movies would give away that they happened in the "past."
But it was your statement about "bias"; maybe I'm just misinterpreting it.
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