Get the latest gossip
The Year When Oscar Narratives Ate the Oscars
Acording to the new Oscar rules, the story a movie is telling is no longer enough. It’s now competing with the story being told about a movie.
That said, I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a switchback Oscar moment quite like the one that took place on Feb. 8, the day that the Directors and Producers Guilds both bestowed their top honors on “ Anora,” Sean Baker’s acclaimed tale of a sex worker who makes fast work of marrying a Russian oligarch’s wastrel son, only to see the fireworks fly when his parents find out. The original one, stretching back decades, was the “It’s time!” factor: actors and, on occasion, directors winning Oscars because they’ve been nominated so often and have never won, or are simply well-liked industry warhorses who Academy voters want to honor. “Anora” is guilty of including sex scenes staged without an intimacy coordinator (though the film’s lead actress, Mikey Madison, handled this issue so adroitly that it appears to have faded).
Or read this on Variety