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Oscars Dodge Mentioning Donald Trump, but Some Speeches Still Hit on Hot-Button Political Issues
Oscar presenters and honorees largely avoided talking about President Trump at the ceremony, though the 'No Other Land' speech provided some politics.
There was a brief zinger by host Conan O’Brien, spurred by trophies won by “Anora”: “Two wins already, I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.” That evoked Trump’s characterization of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator,” as well as the tense media spectacle of the pair’s White House meeting earlier this week to discuss America’s foreign aid amid Russia’s invasion of the country. Amid other political gestures during the ceremony, presenter Daryl Hannah shouted “Slava Ukraini,” in a presumably unscripted show of support for a country waiting out a U.S. administration that could retract its foreign aid. Accepting best actor for “The Brutalist,” Adrien Brody noted that both Oscars he’s won came for playing Holocaust survivors, saying that “I’m here once again to represent the lingering traumas and the repercussions of war and systematic oppression, and of antisemitism and racism and othering.
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