Someone Was Missing at the 2018 Oscars
Last year, the Trump administration drew the ire of the Hollywood elite. This time around, it was the industry itself.
Last year, there was a looming over the 2017 Academy Awards, saturating Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue, popping up in acceptance speeches throughout the night, and even making its presence felt via tweets projected onto the backdrop of the Dolby Theatre. Back then, the Donald Trump presidency was just a month old (even if it felt older, given the of this administration), and the commander-in-chief was at the epicenter of the outraged pop-cultural imagination. Books were being hastily published. Dystopian plays were being staged. And at the Oscars, people including Gael
