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Oscars: How Category Fraud, Social Media Scandals and Independent Film Defined an Unpredictable Season
The 2025 Oscars season was defined by category fraud, social media scandals, and needed lifeline for independent cinema.
One of the craziest awards seasons in Oscar history concluded on Sunday with the coronation of Sean Baker’s “ Anora,” a comedy about an outer-boroughs sex worker that was shot in guerrilla fashion for just $6 million. By choosing “Anora,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, once dismissed as old and out of touch, has demonstrated that it is open to movies that push the envelope, in terms of both language (there are more than 400 uses of the F-word in the film) and sexuality. We had our first back-to-back Afro-Latino best actor nominee (Colman Domingo), Fernanda Torres followed in her mother’s footsteps as the second Brazilian actress to be nominated and Zoe Saldaña became the first Latina (who didn’t play Anita in “West Side Story”) to win an acting Oscar.
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