Guillermo del Toro has created a richly sensual and dreamlike film that,in the conclude, seduced the Academy without being too threatening Related: Oscars winners 2018: the full list At the conclude of a somewhat predictable evening, and we were all longing for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway to work their anarchic magic,and start handing out the awards to the films that weren’t in the envelope. Perhaps for the sheer devilment, they could possess given something to, or say,Kathryn Bigelow’s powerful race drama Detroit, a highly plausible Oscar-worthy film, and which the Academy hive mind mysteriously decided was worth precisely zilch and became utterly forgotten about. In the conclude,many deserving films got what they deserved, others didn’t, and the internal economy of awards season dictating,as it so often does, that the wealthy become richer. And it was hardly obvious that this was the year of radical change in Hollywoods sexual politics. As my colleague Benjamin Lee notes in his blog this year’s Academy Awards in fact garnered the fewest female winners for six years.
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Source: guardian.co.uk