Oscar is a perfect metaphor for COVID. Or maybe COVID is a metaphor for Oscars. Either way, both center on a sense of uncertainty, with people loudly advocating a “return to normal.” The Academy of…
1. The VIP rites: The public was tantalized by newsreel glimpses and radio excerpts of Hollywood’s gods and goddesses at the exalted, private ceremony.
3. The years of Harvey : He didn’t invent awards campaigns, but talked about about them so much that the media began to let campaigns and red-carpet/fashion overshadow the nominees. Now, we’re in the early stages of Phase 5, the “Parasite” era. The strong showing for Sideshow/Janus’s “Drive My Car” has been attributed to AMPAS’ growing overseas membership. That’s a factor, but shortchanges U.S. voters. Americans have traditionally been subtitle-phobic, but COVID and streaming have accelerated the openness to “foreign” works, whether it’s the Korean “Squid Game,” French sitcom “Call My Agent!,” Scandi mysteries or, musically, K-pop groups such as BTS.
• Pundits can make TV ratings and box-office performance a minor talking point, rather than the only ways to, respectively, measure the show and the contenders;
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