The 90th Academy Awards will be remembered for a speech that closed off a tumultuous season in powerful, resonant fashion. That moment aside, this year’s Oscar ceremony – coming in the wake of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo and #TimesUp fightback – was bizarrely free of righteous anger. Emma Stone, last year’s Best Actress winner, presented Best Director and two pairs of women presented the lead acting gongs. The proportional voting system used for Best Picture since the start of this decade has, happily, made that race the least predictable of the lot. Saoirse Ronan, a Best Actress nominee for that film, will have many other chances.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2018 16:18 UTC