Photo: ABC In honor of the highs, lows, and true woahs of the 2021 Oscars — “Da Butt” dances, shock Best Actor wins, wolf howling and all — Vulture’s film critics joined forces to discuss the COVID-safe ceremony that was this year’s weird, new, and wild Academy Awards.
As a result, so much of this season has felt so pre-programmed. It’s weird to think that Nomadland was only technically released a couple of months ago. It has somehow been the front-runner since fall! But that also speaks to what a weird Oscar season it has been. Nomadland, directed by Chloe Zhao: Unstoppable Oscar juggernaut? What? When you step back and look at it, it all feels so amazingly weird. Sometimes wonderfully so. Sometimes debilitatingly so.
AW: You’re right, Bilge, and theatrical releases also, I think inarguably at this point, allow for movies to have more traction in the public awareness just because they have a longer life. They’re not just plopped out on a streaming service and left to compete for attention with all the ruckus of constant new releases.
BE: You’re absolutely right that part of the issue with this award season has been the issue with the whole movie year, which is that a certain critical dimension of it felt like it had been removed. The last movie I saw in a theater before entering quarantine March of last year was a press screening for In the Heights, which felt to me at the time like it was destined to be one of the best films of the year. And we were gonna get a big Steven Spielberg musical and everything.
I didn’t like My Octopus Teacher at all, and If Anything Happens I Love You downright enraged me, but I’d felt resigned to those wins by the time those categories rolled around. I appreciate Steven Soderbergh’s dedication to restoring some sense of the electric quality of broadcasting live from a room full of talent. But this winners list feels like it’s been actively competing against that by going with the most predictable picks in most of the categories we’ve seen so far .
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