Hollywood's Most Powerful Woman Could Soon Be Out of Job

Stacey Snider, the chairman and chief executive of Twentieth Century Fox Films, will arrive at Dolby Theatre for the Oscars on Sunday as perhaps the most successful studio executive of the moment. Fox movies — Steven Spielberg's “The Post” as well as “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” from the quasi-independent Fox Searchlight — have gathered up 27 Oscar nominations, nine more than the nearest competitor. Yet the night will also be deeply bittersweet, because it could represent a last hurrah. Snider took the Fox studio reins in 2016 with the belief she was in for a long ride. But in December, Rupert Murdoch announced he would sell much of 21st Century Fox to Walt Disney for $52.4 billion, arguing that new technologies required a scale his company didn't possess.