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Brad Pitt won an Academy Award last night for Best Supporting Actor. He won an

Oscar in 2014 as a producer. In his acceptance speech, he said, they told me I only had 45 seconds

up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week. Thus began a night of awards

juxtaposed with politics and surprises. Wachene Phoenix won the Best Lead Actor Award for

Joker and spoke out against artificially inseminating cows. Parasite became the first

non-English language film to win the Best Picture Award. presenter Natalie Portman wore a cape on which were written the names of women who weren't

nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.

The Oscars felt to me like an evening of cultural commentary interspersed with occasional

awards.

The popularity of many of the actors and presenters can dilute us into

thinking Hollywood speaks for us. The opposite is actually more the case. Of the nine movies

nominated for Best Picture, Joker made the most money, ranking ninth in box office sales for

2019. Avengers Endgame grossed more than twice that much.

Women make up 50.8% of the American population,

but they have received 0.01% of best director nominations in Oscar's history.

Five out of 447 official nominations in 92 years.

People of Color comprised nearly 37% of the American population in the 2010 Census,

but only one person of color was nominated in the four major acting categories.

Actress Cynthia Arrivo for her lead performance in Harriet.

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