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Anora, a low-budget drama about a sex worker, swept the Oscars with five awards, including best picture, best director, and best actress.
It was a good year for indies, Axios noted, with gongs for A Real Pain and Flow. The Hollywood journalist Matt Belloni told Semafor’s Mixed Signals that the Oscars have become more artsy: After a backlash over a lack of diversity, the Academy expanded to include more foreign members, who are often “actively anti-Hollywood,” eroding the ability of giant blockbusters like Titanic to take the top prizes.
It may be ironic that the best actor award went to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist, about a pioneer of a style beloved of architects but disliked by the actual public.
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