Did the LBJ controversy hurt her chances?

Entertainment Weekly's story speculating on the reasons Selma did not get a Best Director nomination:

(Ava) DuVernay predicted that she would not be the first black woman to land a directing nod. “It would be lovely,” she told EW over lunch in L.A. on Dec. 18. “When it happens to whomever it happens to, it will certainly have meaning.” But it would not be her. “This is not me being humble, either,” she said. “It’s math.”