Borat Subsequent Moviefilm made an impact because, like most of us, the film staked real value in family, health, social justice, and civil rights.
As did Judas and the Black Messiah and Minari, Nomadland and Promising Young Woman, Time, Soul, and Sound of Metal, among many others.
Largely eschewing spectacle for the intimate scale of the personal crusade, these movies still captured larger-than-life heroes and movements, powerful triumphs and struggles.
They captured us.Did the Academy get it totally right? Of course not — unless every single member is currently working on the script that will finally garner Da 5 Bloods star Delroy Lindo an Oscar nomination.
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