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Secrets of the Oscars Class Photo

What does it take to produce this image? We spoke to the Academy’s special events wrangler to find out.

Over the past five years, BAFTA’s tastes have diverged from its American counterparts’, especially in Best Film, where it has twice gone for the arty directorial achievement over middlebrow crowd-pleasers ( Roma over Green Book and Power of the Dog over CODA) and twice eschewed buzzy genre efforts in favor of World War I movies ( 1917 over Parasite and All Quiet on the Western Front over Everything Everywhere All at Once). The biggest test will be in Supporting Actress, where Team Oppenheimer must cross their fingers and hope voters finally hand Emily Blunt a trophy at the fourth time of asking. Stone and Gladstone are just too strong, and while Hüller gives a great performance in Anatomy of a Fall, she doesn’t transform, play a real person, or get grievously ill.)

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