In some sense, you can say that it was like the old days. Oscar Knight, whether the broadcasting broadcast is great or just that (I am unable to find the bad Oscars explicitly-I am more than just addicted to entertainment), always gave you a feeling that Hollywood was in the center of the world. The Academy Awards ceremony was about the popularity of quality meeting, about a type of solid land in the middle of the road-and in the moments, artistic fear. They were a dream of how Hollywood wanted to see him, and it is a referendum on the state of cinematic works. The image that the industry that she knew about itself always comes loudly and clearly.
This was definitely the case this year, as Anura, the epic Shun Baker comedy about the sex factor who is doing a quick job in marriage to the son of the Russian Qala, won five of the six -an Academy Awards ceremony that was nominated, while it was a wonderful survey. What seemed new and different is that by decisively in an independent movie, the vast majority of the broadcasting broadcasting, most likely, unprecedented, repeated the Academy Awards, repeated the spirit of independent film awards, and closed what might quickly become their new identity as prizes.
Broadcasting itself was a fast -executed media piece elegantly, and successful in more than ways. It is designed with lavishness and cleansing from dead sites, and the winners have been given the opportunity to reveal who they are, and it is in fact the heart of the show. The evening opened in a thin style with a stir from “Wicked”, such as Ariana Grande, in a dress that looked like an accessory designed by Schiaparelli to Sangers Ruby Dorothy, sang “somewhere above the rainbow”, then joined by Cynthia Erivo to perform “Defined Gravity” who was not anyone who had nothing that had nothing not He has nothing.
Konan O’Brien then came out, and while I admit that his commercial sign of the superior mockery was never a cup of Jabri Al -Hawari, he shook his first appearance as a host, and he walked on the ideal line between acid and affection, whether he was manipulating “brutally” (“I did not want to end, and fortunately, it was not that). Bad. This was Konan at his best, as Jimmy Kimmel gave a tour for his money.
The presentation had many good things: the appearance of Mick Jagger to present the Best Song Award, which is the Puppet Sandworm joke (at least, the first one), the fake Conan advertisement for “Cinemastreams” (a way to flow a movie on their youth on a large screen … in a building!), And the scene “Jokes”. There were also some non -good things, such as honoring James Bond, which could be prominently forgotten (007 montage, diverse dance, three songs) and the second sandworm joke.
But the launch of the same prizes was based on the best innovations in recent years to make each category feel meaningful. Kiran Kulkin, who won the award for the best support actor for “Real Pain”, won the ball by increasing the bet on the skeptical bet he made with his wife in an Emmy acceptance speech. (Now that he won the Academy Award, he wants fourth child). But the first advice that “Anura”, after winning the best original scenario, would have spent a big night when Sean Baker, the famous writer and director of the film, won the best editor (Baker modifies his own films).
With Anora continued to achieve victories, you can say that the audience at Dolby Theater was euphoria, even when people at home were saying things like, “So what is this movie anyway?” There were many speeches about moving the import, such as a call to communicate in the Middle East from a Palestinian team and the Israelis who took the best winner in the documentary, “There is no other land”, or the best representative of the Adrian Broody winner, and after he was nullified in the circumvention, after it was overcome, it was not verified. “
Is it wrong to choose quality on popularity? Theoretically, no. You can say, of course, that it may be the right thing to do. However, in the effective Hollywood rejection of even when he was discovered in the traditional motifs from it, it gave the Oscar 2025 Awards significantly different messages from the old scanning operations. The image of the industry expected to be more than before by the newly voting bloc. This was a trademark of film taste that had no room for two potential winners such as Demi Moore, for her inspiring work in “The Mortance”, or Timothe Chalamet, which was regardless of being wonderful Bob Dylan, which is the only performance that one of the actors presented this year who prompted a kind of national conversation. I think Chalamite would have won it easily. This was the Academy Awards a decade ago. But the tormented Brody performance in the movie “The Brutalist”, like the movie itself, is a kind of walking from artistic purity. This, for the better or worse, is what is now governing the Academy Awards.