“Anora” wins Oscar for Best Picture: The “wokeness” of Hollywood and the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
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Summary
While the Oscars celebrated Anora, a film promoting controversial themes, a stark contrast is offered in the film Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. This powerful film follows Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian who resisted Naziism at the cost of his life. Hollywood’s focus on social advocacy reveals a deep desire to influence the world—yet, as Bonhoeffer taught, true impact comes from courageously doing God's will. His legacy challenges us to stand firm in a world that often celebrates the opposite.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Monday, March the 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:18.4 | Anora won best picture at last night's Academy Awards and five Oscars in all. |
| 0:24.5 | According to NPR, the film is, quote, the story of a sex worker who marries a former client and gets mixed up with some Russian oligarchs, end quote. |
| 0:34.5 | I had to quote them, since I will not see the film due to its graphic nudity. |
| 0:38.7 | It also normalizes prostitution, euphemistically called the sex worker community. |
| 0:44.9 | Great cinema is apparently in the eye of the beholder, and many of the beholders are not many of us. |
| 0:51.2 | The Atlantic headlined, the Oscars have left the mainstream moviegoer behind. |
| 0:56.8 | NPR reports that the more popular the movie, |
| 0:59.8 | the less likely it is to win awards. |
| 1:02.4 | Then there are the politics. |
| 1:03.5 | Host Conan O'Brien made a joke about President Donald Trump's relationship |
| 1:07.7 | with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying, |
| 1:10.4 | Ava Nora, I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian, end quote. |
| 1:17.6 | The audience cheered loudly. |
| 1:19.2 | Daryl Hanna voiced a traditional Ukrainian battle cry when she took the stage to present the award for Best Film Editing. |
| 1:26.4 | Some actors wore, quote, Gaza red-hand |
| 1:29.9 | protest pens that many Jews consider an explicit reference to a year 2000 incident in which a |
| 1:37.1 | group of Palestinians murdered Israeli reservists and then held up their bloody red hands to the delight |
| 1:44.1 | of a cheering crowd. |
| 1:45.6 | But it wasn't always this way. When Marlon Brando protested Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans |
| 1:50.9 | in 1973 by sending an activist named Sachine Littlefeather to refuse his best actor Oscar for |
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