As every year, the Oscars passed and, as every year, there is as much joy as discontent. You would have to take them more light: after all, art is not sport and the big films are thanks to the passage of time. Anyone can do the exercise of taking the list of main winners throughout history and see which coincide with the best of cinema. Do not account: 10%, take the criteria you take for “best cinema.” That said, it is usually a tribune and a diagnosis of what the entertainment world thinks of itself and occasion for many celebrities of justifying being millionaires adhering to noble causes. But something happened this time: even if Tout-Hollywood usually identifies with the Democratic Party, and after a year where they exhausted the entire dictionary of insults towards Donald Trump, it was very little what was there of politics, protest or (oh, the term!) “Wokismo”. Spoiler: Our hypothesis about it, at the end of this note.
Delivery 2025, for abúlicos standards of this kind of ceremony, was entertaining, well conducted by Conan O’Brienand with a couple of very very pure moments that are worth highlighting, such as when Mick Jagger He said that the best songs of the year were in a complete stranger, at the same time recognition of how big it is Bob Dylan and how small the current songs are (he won a horrible thing properly called “The Evil” by Emilia Pérez). There were more or less well taken tributes, a couple of musical paintings such as people and some clips. One of them, counterproductive: the sequence compilation of the Bond saga showed that there are much more cinema and imagination in those “entertainment” films than in most of the nominees. But what we all expected was that the entertainment world reacted to the political vertigo of the Trump administration. This scribe carefully scored how many times the name or surname of the president was pronounced on Hollywood’s tribute. Zero. Not even Elon Musk, new scarecrows of political correction, was criticized or mentioned.
Yes there were those who said or did something (fair or not). The screenwriter of Conclave He wore a tape with the colors of Ukraine in the flap; the winner of the costume Oscar remembering that he was the first African -American to win such a prize; Daryl Hannah raised his fingers in V by Volodimir Zelensky’s country; Zoe Saldaña recalled that she is immigrants daughter Latinos (and its Dominican grandmother named Argentina, who lit a fleeting nationalism in networks); a joke of Conan O’Brien about Anora and the Russians who alluded to the Trump administration; and the speech of Adrien Brody that condemned anti -Semitism. The only really political moment was the speech of the filmmakers of NO OTher Land, the winning documentary, where it was asked to stop the “ethnic cleaning” in Gaza, applauded standing. After Hamas’s atrocities, something at least irresponsible. But it is known: “La Paz” is a good alibi so that even a frivolous community feels justified.
And nothing more. Revised the awards, everything was quite fair. But the most interesting thing was the destruction of Emilia Pérez, who won the only awards he could win. The song, debatable. Zoe Saldaña’s is a perfect test. The protagonist of the movie, Karla Sofía Gascónwas the great white hope: the first trans actress capable of taking the prize in its category.
But they already know: old tweets came out condemning radical Islam and began a witch hunt. Gascón not only had to be trans, but woke too. That destroyed his chances and, consequently, those of the film. That he won Saldaña (who did not mention it in his gratitude) was a bit “save one of our fire.” It was worthy that Gascón went to the gala and the joke made by Conan O’Brien over the tweets (that is a great American tradition, the “roast”, the mockery of the famous, nothing to be offended) because it could not be mentioned the elephant in the room. But at the same time, he showed the exhaustion of Woke discourse, which falls into contradictions by his own, inflexible weight.
We said that there was a hypothesis regarding why so little reaction when the artistic community spent a whole year demonizing the screams (whether or not they are right, it is another song) to the current president -not even mentioned by the acting nomination of Sebastian Stanwho interprets it in the apprentice. The answer is in the numbers and in a reflection that artists have but executives.
If Hollywood remains the largest audiovisual entertainment supplier in the world, it is because its Popes developed, since the beginning of the 20th century, a reflection of synchrony with what the audiences ask and look for. And have correctly read a change in them. In addition, 2024 was a bad year: after an almost safe recovery after the pandemic, the unemployment of 2023 actors and screenwriters ruined the landscape last year (which had a fall of interannual spectators around 5%, but reached 26% in full “high season”). The films are very expensive, it is necessary to look good with everyone, and political ultra -correction is no longer an attraction for the public. Another test? It is the third consecutive year that neither Disney nor its subsidiary Pixar won the animation award: in 2022 he won the Pinocchio de Guillermo del Toro (Netflix); In 2023, El Niño y la Garza, by Hayao Miyazaki; And this year the perfect flow, a lithuana masterpiece made with less than the tenth of what is worth a tank.
Demi Moore was the great candidate to win the award for best leading actress for her commented work in the movie “The substance.” He had already consecrated in the award of the Golden Globes, the anteroom of the Oscars. But it could not be: the winner was a 25 -year -old actress, Mikey Madisonagainst the 62 that Moore has. The expression of his face demonstrated how disappointing it was for Demi Moore not to keep the prize. The irony is that, as in “the substance”, the show industry again bowed to a younger girl. A source close to the actress told the American site Page Six that Moore was “shattered”, like his character. “Demi is assimilating this defeat with great difficulty because he felt this was his chance,” he said.
So, for the first time in a long time and although the above shows that there is still a political rjora (which will not disappear since it was installed in the seventies), there was talk of cinema. Only in networks some outdated said that Demi Moore lost to Mikey Madison because the history of the substance on the glorification of youth is repeated, overlooking that the two have excellent jobs but that Anora It is also a great film and the substance, a pastiche already seen and underlined (remember death feels good?). And that the best speech was given by Baker, just winner of Anora, asking that you think about making movies to watch in the cinema, that parents take the boys to experience the big screen. Yes, the most subversive of the night was to talk about cinema that, although it is forgotten, is the reason why the Oscars exist.
By Leonardo d’Esósito, news critic
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