The 1A Movie Club Recaps The 2023 Oscars : NPR

Oscars statues line the red carpet at the 95th Academy Awards.

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Oscars statues line the red carpet at the 95th Academy Awards.

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Hollywood’s biggest night has come and gone. And it was a memorable one, even in the run-up.

Shortly after announcing its nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences conducted an internal investigation into the campaigning tactics of best actress nominee Andrea Riseborough.

And, excluding Michelle Yeoh of “Everything Everywhere All At Once”, this year’s slate of best actor nominees were entirely white. That’s three years after the academy announced new diversity guidelines in response to 2015’s Oscars-so-white campaign.

So where do the Oscars go from here? And what do this year’s awards tell us about the state of moviegoing?

Later, we revisit our conversation with Best Actor winner Ke Huy Quan, and Best Director Winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert from 2022. We sat down with them in April to talk about the now award-winning Best Picture, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”

It’s a comedy, a family drama, a love story, and a science fiction martial arts flick. It’s a story about fractured selves, queer acceptance, and paths not taken.

It explicitly asks whether life has any meaning, and it shows us what can happen when we believe it doesn’t.

KPCC‘s John Horn and Rotten Tomatoes‘ Jacqueline Coley join us for the conversation.

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