the Earnest Oscars. True, the institution, even in your typical year, is not known for sparkling levity or ironic dash. But the pandemic, and Black Lives Matter, and the death of Chadwick Boseman, were bound to cast some kind of extra existential pall.
The films up for Best Picture were all about pain and protest; the winner, Nomadland, was a sorrowful odyssey with sickness and a sense of alienation in its soul.
Cinema, in the true sense of the word, had shut up shop in 2020. What was mostly reflected in the tenor of these awards wasn’t just the urgency of getting the shutters back up, but the live-giving importance of artistic expression.
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