HA!! The Oscars literally have a dei checklist and if the movie the studio has does not meet it then no award for you so the studios caved in and the plummeting box office and near empty soundstages and now the oscars on youtube are the result.
The last time I rooted for an actor to win the Oscar, was Gary Oldman for his 2017 portrayal of Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour.” I didn’t think they’d give it to him because of the character he was portraying, but they did. I figured it would be one of the two black actors up for the award that year, one being Denzel Washington.