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The 95th Academy Awards Was A24’s Coming-of-Age Moment
A24 has been quietly assuming the mantle of the most respected caretaker in independent filmmaking, and this year’s Oscars ceremony was the moment all the stars aligned.
It was, as they say, just like the movies.
The writing was well and truly on the wall as soon as Harrison Ford stepped forward to present the Academy Award for “Best Picture.”
The 95th Academy Awards had passed, as host Jimmy Kimmel was eager to point out, without incident. Or had it?
A year since Will Smith slapped the smirk off Chris Rock’s face, the Academy Award organizers had been keen to return to basics; the fundamentals of what makes a ceremony tick. Tears, a smattering of good-natured humor, and polite applause were in abundance once again.
The scriptwriters for this year’s ceremony knew they had to play this right, and play it right they did. The Oscars had everything that makes a movie great — comeback stories, redemption arcs, famous faces, and overcoming-the-odds tales.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, a film that one half of its directing duo, Daniel Kwan, has previously stated is simultaneously the most underrated and overrated…
