The Holdovers, American Fiction and Past Lives are my rooting interests this year. Not that I do much rooting, but I’m ok with giving a marketing boost to the occasional good movies. My other passing interest is whether the industry is starting to self-correct a bit on wokeness. Reaching back a couple of years, I suspect that CODA beating out The Power of the Dog was due partly to the sane people in the industry (yes, there are some) having had enough. CODA winning was perhaps an early sign that we’re past peak woke. Nothing gave me heartburn last year. Fingers crossed this year.
Oppenheimer had some good points and I’m ok with it winning a nod or three. I’ve not seen Barbie but, like Oppenheimer, it was a great box office success, and I’m ok with the industry getting back to honoring movies that audiences actually wanted to see.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST won the best international feature movie...It is about Holocaust...
The producer (?) of that film mentioned Gaza conflict...He talked about “the victims of dehumanization” both in Israel and Gaza...The guy is angry with both Israeli government and Hamas?
Robert Downey Jr just won the best supporting actor...