The Oscars shake off the dandruff and embrace the “everything everywhere at once” multiverse.

Hollywood has struggled for years with its lack of connection with new generations. Teenagers get together to see Marvel movies or fast and furious, but his interest hasn’t extended to other industry staples like the Oscars. The shrinking audience for the most important film awards show has forced the Hollywood Academy to think about what to do to regain the attention of viewers who go to cinemas but have no connection to the awards or what happens outside of them. Your favorite franchises.

Last year, in a desperate cry, they announced a ridiculous award for the most popular film voted for on Twitter, and everyone laughed. They were looking for a prize Spider-Man: There’s no way home, the highest-grossing film of the year and the one that saved cinema after opening after the pandemic. In the end, the award was not sung at the ceremony, nor did Marvel win. A false move, criticized and it showed the nerves of the establishment. A year later, the same industry decided to take direct action and release a film that connected precisely with young audiences.

A film about multiverses, with its crazy editing and fragmented narrative, which many saw as a film for the TikTok generation, accustomed to these short stories, quickly jumping from video to video, was immediately promoted by the Oscars everywhere. The way, like the hero jumps from world to world. It was they who made this film a success, for which no one paid a single penny. And they were the ones who made it the weirdest, most surreal and different winner in years. The film won seven Oscars, the most since 2008. Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, Actress, Supporting and Supporting Actor. A booty that shows the film is an absolute phenomenon.

Many feared that the preferential vote, which rewards consensus films, would favor more academic options such as There is no news on the front or Fabelmans, but this time the Academy did not interfere and got rid of the dandruff at once. Nothing else could happen green booknor any other Code. They chose modernity, a surreal comedy, and awarded a film that is much more than a film where there are multiple versions of characters with fingers that are hot dogs and where villains jump between worlds where Analia infiltrates. An irreverent, crazy, and also incredibly touching portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship.

But Everything everywhere at the same time It is also a film that vindicates a society that has been treated with racism for decades. The Asian community finally saw itself represented and proudly embraced this film, which puts a 60-year-old hero at the center who has spent decades dishing out punches in action films. Michelle Yeoh, who also won Best Actress for her role over second-favourite Cate Blanchett. A historic moment took place on stage when Halle Berry, the first black woman to win an Oscar, presented the award to Yeoh, the first Asian.

Yeo gave a speech defending their dreams and telling boys and girls who see themselves in them not to give up. “To all women, never let it be said that your best moment has passed,” she previously said, dedicating it to “mothers, the real superheroes.” Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert also dedicated the award to them, who justified “strange people” like them.

It soon became apparent that the night would be for the Danes. The second prize of the evening, Best Supporting Actor, went to favorite Ke Hui Quan, the mythical Capon De. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which received one of the biggest ovations of the night. The entire audience stood up and cried, remembering his mother: “Mom, I won an Oscar.” “My life began on a ship, I was in a concentration camp. Stories like mine only happen in movies, I never thought it would happen to me. This is the American dream,” he added. It was also the third for Hollywood legend Jamie Lee Curtis, who also won her first nomination for Los Daniels and dedicated it to her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. They spent the night in the first bars.

There was a moment of fear when There is no news on the frontThe Netflix war drama began to win technical awards until it reached four (photography, production design, soundtrack and international film, where it left without an Oscar). Argentina, 1985). Many have seen coverage of what happened at the BAFTAs, where Edward Berger’s film earned a nod and won Best Picture. Its weaknesses were noted in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, where it lost to Sarah Polley, the only woman nominated in the Best Picture category, who won for her adaptation. They are talking. Picking it up, Polly shot a small arrow at the academy, “Thank you for not offending the words women and speaking too close together.”

In a best actor duel that ended without a clear favorite, it was Brendan Fraser who took home the Oscar, having started a fight back in September when he presented. Ვshap at the Venice Festival. There the Volpe Cup was awarded to Colin Farrell, but here Fraser beat the Irishman and also his great rival Austin Butler. Elvis. Frazier arrived at the Oscars almost shaking, and while she didn’t give a speech as emotional as she did at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, she brought everyone to their feet. An award that tastes like forgiveness from an industry that has abandoned him for years. Ვshap It was another winning film as it also won the Best Makeup and Hairstyling award.

An edition that featured many losers, perhaps too many. Up to five titles nominated for the best film at the Oscars remained empty. Fabelmans, Tar, Banshees of Inisherin, The Triangle of Sorrows and Elvis They were left with zero points. for that Avatar: The Sense of Water and Top Gun: Maverick It was the rock for James Cameron’s film, it was the Oscar for best special effects, and for the blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, it was the best sound nomination. A consolation prize for the two highest-grossing films of the year.

Neither Cameron nor Cruise attended the gala, and for them it was one of the best hooks of the night, delivered by Jimmy Kimmel in his opening monologue. “They both insisted we go to the movies, but they didn’t make it to the theater,” Kimmel said, sparing another shot at the director. “You know the gala is too long when James Cameron doesn’t come,” she began, before spreading the rumor that she didn’t go because she was angry about his absence in the best performance category: “I find it very hard to believe someone with such profound humility From a human.That’s right, how come the Academy doesn’t name the guy who directed it Avatar? What do you think this woman is?

Kimmel was outstanding in his initial appearance. It was fun, with plenty of taunts and, above all, a quick attack on the elephant in the room, Will Smith’s smack last year. “If someone attacks another person who knows the consequences, they will win the Oscar for Best Actor and get to give the eternal speech,” he began warning that he had bodyguards between the seats to protect them and listed. Featuring Pedro Pascal, Michelle Yeoh and many other actors and actresses. It was one of Gala’s few brilliant notes that, ironically, caught Smack’s shadow. Everything seemed too restrained, as if they were holding their hand in fear of something unexpected.

Probably because of that lukewarm naatu naatu RRR, A song that won an Oscar and was eaten with fries by music stars. Neither Rihanna nor Lady Gaga had the strength of the Indian theme, which is not only the best scene in the film, but also one of the great moments of the ceremony and the song with the Oscars, again denying Diane Warren, who returned. Losing its 14th nomination, Naatu Naatu is another example of how Hollywood is looking for a new audience as the theme is a viral phenomenon on TikTok.

Even the speeches were half-throttle. Accustomed to the power shown in past awards, the winning actors and actresses knew little. No political mentions, no speeches with any commitment (beyond Sarah Paul). Only by winning Navalny As the best documentary there was a certain intention on the stage to ask for the release of the opponent and his wife, after calling for the release of political prisoners and all those who fought against any dictatorship. Among the negative notes, the forgetting of Carlos Saura in In Memoriam. It’s unfair for a filmmaker who was nominated for the award three times (for Mother’s 100th birthday, Carmen and Tango) and who was one of the most important European film directors.

The Oscars, with these awards, clearly showed which is the most important film of the year. While on other occasions, with an overly spread out list of winners, it looked like they were giving the Best Picture award more out of elimination than conviction, this time they made it clear. Everything everywhere at the same time An important film that showed that original, different and even “rare” cinema can bring people to theaters, but convince the Academy, which only five years ago preferred. green book until Rome. Now it remains to be seen, as is usually the case in Hollywood, if this move was just a strategy to clean up their image or if they decide to watch a different kind of cinema.