Mary McNamara: After two years of a pandemic, is it any wonder that family dominates the Oscar nods?
With apologies to Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, Tuesday morning’s Oscar nominations show was a ridiculous, self-defensive mess and, as it turns out, completely unnecessary. Running 32 minutes, the announcement of the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards played as a painfully obvious attempt to convince everyone that Movies Still Matter. In addition to the predawn effervescence of the ...
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Feb 08, 2022
3 minutes
With apologies to Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, Tuesday morning’s Oscar nominations show was a ridiculous, self-defensive mess and, as it turns out, completely unnecessary.
Running 32 minutes, the announcement of the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards played as a painfully obvious attempt to convince everyone that Movies Still Matter. In addition to the predawn effervescence of the bantering Ross and Jordan, the “show” dragged in the all the usual suspects from the nonroaring ’20s
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