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And the Oscar Goes to … Sue


How Demi Moore lost the Best Actress award after staging a near-perfect career comeback.

Anora ’s near-sweep of its six Oscar nominations is ultimately a wonderful thing for indie filmmaking, especially with Sean Baker hitting the podium four times to cheer-lead for the continued existence of movie theaters. Marching through Moore’s early films, it’s remarkable to see how often she was the magnetic bright spot in stories that didn’t give her much: sexist dreck like Blame It on Rio; Brat Pack fare both aggravating ( St. Elmo’s Fire) and halfway interesting ( About Last Night); potboiler noir like Mortal Thoughts. I wonder how many current voting members of the Academy were working in the early ‘90s, and whether those individuals felt The Substance — in all its invigorating excess; a movie that was about the exact kind of terror that comes with being put out to pasture as an actress!

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