Though “the old Academy is still alive and kicking,” writes rilaws, “a new era may finally be dawning.” On frontrunners, underdogs, and a twisting Oscars race:
nominations tell a story of two Academies. As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences works to expand and diversify its membership, it has invited hundreds of new members from outside the United States. The result this year is a slate of wide-ranging nominees, with inclusions that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. That gives the Academy a vague shimmer of newness, of reinvention, of a different kind of respectability. A new era may finally be dawning.
Which is why it’s heartening to see the Academy blessing the riskier stuff with these headline-grabbing nominations. Maybe there is some ribbon of a possibility that awards attention will remind moviegoers of the breadth of cinematic glory available to them beyond the sleek familiarity of superhero adventures.a hushed portrait of two grieving people fumbling toward healing through art and conversation.
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