Oscars Review: Conan O’Brien Rocked His Hosting Debut, but the Telecast Felt Too Small for Hollywood’s Biggest Night
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In a sense, you could say it was like the good old days. Oscar night, whether the telecast is great or just so-so (I’m all but incapable of finding the Oscars outright bad — I’m too much of an entertainment junkie), always gave you the feeling that Hollywood was at the center of the world.
The Oscars were about quality meeting popularity, about a kind of middle-of-the-road solid ground — and, at moments, artistic fearlessness.
They were a dream of how Hollywood wanted to be seen, a referendum on the state of the movie business. The image that the industry projected of itself always came through loud and clear.
That was certainly the case this year, as “Anora,” Sean Baker’s epic comedy about a sex worker who makes fast work of marrying a Russian oligarch’s son, won five of the six Oscars it was nominated for, in what amounted to an awesome sweep.
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