The 95th Academy Awards ceremony was a blast, with eclectic, extravagant, quite perplexing absurdist comedy/drama Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) scoring 7 wins, including in the “Best Picture” category. Written and directed by the duo of “Daniels” aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this film is as far from “Oscar bait” as it can be. Michelle Yeoh’s historic — first Asian actress to have won an Oscar in the “Best Actress” nomination — golden statuette is yet another clear signal of the long-awaited cinematographic tectonic shift. The Oscars are — finally! — changing. But are they?
Les merThe 92nd edition of the Academy Awards took us by surprise. Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho’s masterpiece about social struggle and inequality, received all the acclaim it deserved and swept four major awards. But does this mean that the Academy is going to pay more attention to good and original stories from now on?
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