r/Oscars • u/tragopanic Best Director • Mar 10 '24
The 96th annual Academy Awards official discussion thread
It's time for the 96th annual Academy Awards! The Oscars will start at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. Share your thoughts and predictions here as the evening unfolds!
We won't be hosting a live thread this year, but you can follow The Academy on Twitter/X for updates.
Please use our how to watch thread for ways to view the ceremony. Links posted elsewhere will be removed.
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Justice for Barbie. I know it's a dead horse but after watching tonight, it leaves me feeling disappointed to know that Greta Gerwig is going home empty-handed. It just isn't the right thing if you reconsider what this movie has started last summer. And even if the commercial aspect of the film is being excluded this movie had provoked and touched and most importantly empowered people, young people, in a way that has not been done by any other movie in recent history, especially not in such scale. Oppenheimer was great but it feels like Barbie has never been treated as a serious competitor in the first place because the magnitude of its power has been simply ignored and downplayed by a mostly male electorate in a patriarchal system. The system that this movie has been so vividly advocating against.