The Oscar idyll with independent cinema is not a mirage, and ‘anora’ razing this year is the best test

by usatoday24 March 3, 2025, 12:57 pm

The whims and trends of Hollywood go through Rachas and now (and for a few years) it is the turn of independent cinema: ‘Anora’ has made a full of five Oscars and confirms a trend that had been seen for years: the blockbusters are no longer the beautiful girl of the industry, which prefers to reward the small, emotional and remote tapes of the Blackbides of the blockbusters.

Five Oscar, five. Be Baker He has taken with ‘Anora’ five Oscarfour of them for Baker on a personal capacity: Best film, best address (Baker), Best Screenplay (Baker), Best Assembly (Baker) and best cast actress (Mikey Madison). It is especially striking that Baker has collected four of these five awards (including best movie, since he produces it), marking a total record in the history of the Oscars: never before one person had won so many awards in the same gala. It is an unusual recognition.

Triumph for independent. With this success of ‘Anora’, this edition of the Oscar completely reveals a type of cinema that is made with six million dollars (and raises more than 40), which makes Sean Baker the movie one of the cheapest to win the Grand Prix of the Night. And there is a second winner: the indie neon -only distributor that two years ago It was A24 With ‘everything at once everywhere, which already has experience in these lides, since it was the one that took the Korean’ parasites’ to the United States, facilitating its victory in 2019.

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The indie sweeps. As We have commented previouslythe Oscars have been rewarding independent or, at least, at least, regardless of the great proposals of the Majors: ‘All at once everywhere‘In 2022,’Coda‘In 2021,’Nomadland‘(2020) or’Parasites‘(2019) have been the most recent. The only exception on this streak took place last year, with ‘Oppenheimer‘, But in this edition we return to the fold, in what is confirmed that it is more than a coincidence: next year we will have to be very attentive to the proposals in the margins, because in view it is that they start more likely to success.

A convulsed year. The sweep of ‘Anora’ has left almost without prizes to the rest of the favorites, who have had to settle for secondary and very distributed awards. ‘Emilia Pérez’ has been punished for Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweetsand he has only taken cast actress for Zoe Saldaña; ‘The Brutalist’, maybe also affected by the use of AI In the movie, he stays with photography, music and actor for Adrien Brody; ‘The substance‘, another that could have put up the gala, does not wear an actress or director, and is made up of makeup and hairdressing. Of secondary actor, in short, the favorite Kieran Culkin wins.

Below the blockbusters. That ‘Dune 2‘ and ‘WICKED‘They have gone home only with technical awards (sound and visual effects one; costume and production design another) makes the Oscar turn very clear. Above all, taking into account how good it went to ‘Oppenheimer’ last year; And no, it is not useful that in reality, that is an author film: the same can be said of ‘Dune 2’, which also belongs to a genre very dear to Nolan. Small movies is what he likes now, and Majors Like Disney, Warner or Universal will do well in taking note of it.