Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest. But this year, with a culture-wide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct, a film business in decline, a volatile political climate and the fact that last year the esteemed show couldn’t even manage to present its biggest award correctly, the film academy and host Jimmy Kimmel stages a complex and sometimes incongruous dance of attempting to both honor and atone for the past.
A sense of change is palpable at the 90th Academy Awards as Hollywood seeks to confront the post-Harvey Weinstein era and pivot to a vision of a more inclusive movie business.
Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest. But this year, with a culture-wide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct, a film business in decline, a volatile political climate and the fact that last year the esteemed show couldn’t even manage to present its biggest award correctly, the film academy and host Jimmy Kimmel stages a complex and sometimes incongruous dance of attempting to both honor and atone for the past.
A sense of change is palpable at the 90th Academy Awards as Hollywood seeks to confront the post-Harvey Weinstein era and pivot to a vision of a more inclusive movie business.