🎧 Oscars: Demi, 'Anora', Adrien & a Final Debrief
Tyler Coates and I break down the emotional night
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Just a few hours after we kicked up our heels on the dance floor alongside the Russian stars of Anora, Tyler Coates and I reunited to talk about everything we saw at this year’s Oscars, from the meaning of Anora auteur Sean Baker’s very big night to why some of us got our predictions so dramatically wrong. After a pretty great show that went off without a hitch and some statuettes for movies that people really love, are the Oscars going to continue their upward trajectory? Or does handing best picture to one of the lowest-grossing winners in history mean the awards are destined to remain niche, or become even more so?
The ratings for the show weren’t in yet when Tyler and I spoke, but given that it ran well over three hours and featured the longest speech in history courtesy of Adrien Brody, we perhaps shouldn’t be surprised that the numbers were down a bit. (However, the Academy has been eager to point out that ratings were up among younger viewers — call it the Wicked effect?)
We also get into the surprise win for Mikey Madison and what it might mean for her fellow best actress nominee Demi Moore, why it’s still so hard for Netflix to find traction in the best picture race, and what it will finally take for Diane Warren to win that best original song Oscar. Hear it all on today’s special post-Oscar edition of the Prestige Junkie podcast.