Opinion by Alyssa Rosenberg: If cinema’s actually what unites us, the Oscars should put the people who make movies and the people who watch them on the same team.
, according to the service’s proprietary metrics — though 702 percent of what isn’t exactly clear. More broadly and more importantly, the Oscars define a genre that includes everything from sober-minded adaptations of classic science fiction novels to micro-budget indies about the fringes of the American gig economy.
The Academy has flailed around in search of a solution, ping-ponging between an expanded Best Picture pool, a quickly-scrapped proposal for a “Best Popular Film,” and this year a, sure-to-be-awkward “fan favorite” award chosen via Twitter. A more elegant answer might simply be a new mind-set. Rather than trying to inject youth or edge through the choice of host, the Academy should choose someone who can keep the focus on the eventual winners. Enough with efforts to engineer viral moments. Don’taudiences why they ought to be going to theaters when the implicit answer is “because a lot of rich celebrities want you to”; remind them what moviegoing used to feel like at its best.
The family drama of Disney’s delightful animated movie “Encanto” couldn’t be more different from that in Jane Campion’s grim Best Picture nominee “The Power of the Dog,” but it’s still transporting. It’s possible to resent the dominance of superhero movies and still be delighted to see Tony Leung elevating the genre simply with the elegance of his presence in “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Too often, the Academy Awards seem less like a celebration of movies, and more like the cinematic equivalent of a prepper colony warding off the day when American culture enters a terminal decline. That’s a mistake. If cinema’s actually what unites us, the Oscars should put the people who make movies and the people who watch them on the same team.
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