For starters, we’ll by no means know what the vote tally for “Oppenheimer” seemed like demographically as a result of AMPAS understandably doesn’t reveal who voted for what. I do suppose they may make the competitors extra attention-grabbing to most of the people in the event that they launched vote totals, however the management has constantly resisted this.
Most of those wins have been foregone conclusions when “Oppenheimer” hit theaters in July. There was a glimmer of hope on the time that the Barbenheimer phenomenon would result in a heated awards competitors between the 2 vastly totally different films, however Greta Gerwig’s very humorous and superbly crafted movie simply could not get important status traction over the previous couple of months. When Gerwig and Margot Robbie didn’t make the ultimate 5 for, respectively, Finest Director and Finest Actress, that was all she wrote for “Barbie” in the primary classes.
As soon as once more, the Academy demonstrated its tiresome choice for seriousness over enjoyable (although “Barbie” had rather more on its thoughts than an excellent time).
That the massive, sobering film that did massive field workplace received massive on the Oscars should not come as a shock — notably at a second fraught with fear over declining theater attendance within the Covid age. And this, I feel, is the massive takeaway from Oppie’s massive night time.