An Oscar parody of the genre to the old.

The 2019 Academy Awards started breaking records and meeting expectations. Barely an hour away, the Academy had already awarded a record number of Oscars to black women, including Ruth Carter and Hannah Beachler, for costume design and production. Black Pantherand, while many other laureates were complying with the predictions, there were at least some pleasant surprises. With Roma Winner of the best foreign language film, the best director and the best cinematography, it seemed that all Julia Roberts had to do was give Alfonso Cuarón his fourth statue of the night and launch it in the closing credits.

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In retrospect, we might have seen Green paperThe best photo to come. allotment Roma in the foreign category allowed the Academy to say that the black and white film in Spanish about an indigenous Mexican woman had at least won a best picture, otherwise the best picture. And Green paper was rather progressive, at a superficial level, for voters to have the impression of making a declaration on racial equality, while actually supporting a story whose moral is that if blacks were exceptional enough, even the more racists would be bitten whites eventually coming around.

The Academy has significantly increased its membership in recent years, with a particular interest in adding female, non-white and foreign voters, and it seemed that this increased diversity could have put an end to the real winners of best film. There have been years when the film that won the Best Film Award was actually the best image! Arriving exactly 30 years after the confrontation between Driving Miss Daisy and Do the right thing, Green paperThe triumph is a memory of the time when the Academy had chosen comforting fables about racial tolerance to the detriment of films that challenged its white members to question themselves or a film like this. Moonlight, which totally excluded whites from history. And while it is difficult to generalize the "brutally honest" stories of Oscar-winning voters, there is certainly anecdotal evidenceGreen paper The vote was motivated by resentment over criticism against him. It is a film that preaches tolerance, but its victory also served to warn its detractors to remember their place.

None of this is even worth mentioning the fact that Green paperS road to victory began with his white star while pronouncing the word-N, went through the family game of his subject, came across with the revelation that his director had the habit of showing his colleagues as a joke, and then again speeded up after, Day later, Twitter users have unearthed the old pro-Trump anti-Muslim tweets from his screenwriter.

In retrospect, we might have seen Green paperFrom the best picture to come up.

The Eve of the Oscars, Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street could speak won the best film at the Independent Spirit Awards. In recent years, the Academy has tended to focus on the performing arts, but the spirits had become a kind of warm-up for the big show, to the point that they began to seem slightly redundant: if the first prize of the Oscars is identical, movies like Spirits – as he did five times between 2011 and 2016 – why even bother with two separate series? But this year, for the first time in years, none of the best Spirits nominees were nominated for the best film. Adapted from a novel by James Baldwin, Beale Street It is a story of black indomitableness, a protest against the injustice of the police and the mass incarceration which is also deeply sensual, inundated with the intense emotion of the young love and the pain of the separation of these lovers . He was nominated for three Oscars and won one, for Regina King's portrayal of a mother afflicted with unjust incarcerations by her grandson's father. But Beale Street was missing in the top categories of Oscars and Green paperVictory makes his absence more acute. Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, a film less covered with sugar on a black man and a white man working together, has at least been nominated for the prize for best film, and won the adapted scenario prize Beale Street). But Lee, who would have tried to get out of the theater right now Green paperThe victory was announced, we could not help but notice that the story seemed to repeat itself. "Whenever someone leads someone," said Lee, "I lose."

Beale Street is in the past, but Jenkins makes it clear that the systemic injustices that existed at the time are still very much alive here. Green paper tells us that racism was bad, but only in a region circumscribed in time and in space. Drive a few hours north or wait a few decades, and these problems will disappear.

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