CNN Opinion’s culture critics weigh in with commentary on the 96th Academy Awards and share their Oscars takeaways.
Five CNN Opinion culture critics share their takeaways from the 96th Academy Awards. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Gene Seymour: Hollywood’s next existential question Most of the big, expensive movies walked away with Oscars Sunday night. But at least one award winner used his narrowly allotted time for an acceptance speech to argue that movies don’t have to be big or expensive to succeed.
There were extremely expected presenter pairings: “Beetlejuice” topliners Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton! Twinsies Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, together again! Presenters served up warmed-over Golden Age of Sitcoms schtick, with a particularly cringey example being old pals Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer having to do a bit in which Disney cartoon chipmunks Chip ‘n Dale were mistaken for the bare-chested bachelorette-party Chippendales. Things started an hour early.
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