It's never too early to talk Oscars. Here are 5 things to think about now
LOS ANGELES — When we last left off, Joaquin Phoenix had just announced Anthony Hopkins as the winner of the evening's final Oscar. Hopkins wasn't on hand to accept. There was scattered applause from the few people sitting inside a nearly empty train station and ... that's all folks. The 93rd Academy Awards ended not with a bang but a bleat.
Seven months, two vaccination shots and a booster later, the motion picture academy is ready to try again, anxious, like so many people here and outside Hollywood, to forget the last couple of miserable years, put on a happy face and celebrate the magic of movies and, sure, content-churning streaming platforms.
After inviting an
