I think it started with “The Artist” a few years ago, it seems like the Academy now likes the quirky films that are unconventional.
Not so much quirky but perhaps one of the topics voters like, one of their own or about the difficulty of their art. I guess anyway, my wife and I bailed after 30 minutes.
But we did discuss our Academy winner about a mentally challenged, mixed race woman, with AIDS, working to be an actor whose white father abused her.
We figured it would be a shoo in.