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The 1A Movie Club Recaps The 2023 Oscars

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🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood's biggest night has come and gone. And it was a memorable one, even in the run-up.

Excluding Michelle Yeoh of "Everything Everywhere All At Once", this year's slate of best actor nominees were entirely white. That's three years after the academy announced new diversity guidelines in response to 2015's Oscars-so-white campaign.

We discuss where the Oscars go from here and what they tell us about the state of movie-going.

Later, we revisit our conversation with Best Actor winner Ke Huy Quan, and Best Director Winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert from 2022.

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We now know who won what awards on Hollywood's biggest night, the 95th Academy Awards.

0:13.8

It was an evening of firsts of the 20 acting nominees, 16 were first time nominees, and

0:19.8

that includes Michelle Yeau, who scored a historic best actress win for everything

0:25.1

everywhere all at once.

0:27.4

She's the first Asian woman, Yeau as Malaysian, and second woman of color to win in the category.

0:33.1

And then there was Vietnamese American actor Ki Hui Kwon, who also won for his role in

0:38.4

everything everywhere all at once.

0:40.8

He became the second Asian man to win in the best supporting actor category.

0:45.4

But excluding the historic nomination for Michelle Yeau, this year's slate of best actor

0:50.0

in actress nominees was entirely white.

0:52.7

That's only three years after the Academy's new diversity guidelines in response to 2015's

0:58.2

Oscars So White Campaign.

1:00.6

Then there was also the investigation into the campaigning tactics of best actress nominee

1:05.6

Andrea Reisberger in January.

1:08.2

So where do the Academy Awards go from here?

1:11.0

And what do this year's nominees tell us about movie going?

1:14.0

We get into all of that and more after the break.

1:16.6

Later on, we revisit our movie club discussion of everything everywhere all at once, which

1:21.3

took home the big prize for best picture.

1:24.4

I'm Jen White, you're listening to the 1A Podcast where we get to the heart of the story.

1:28.7

We'll be back with all things Oscars in just a moment.

1:37.3

It's the 1A Movie Club's Oscars recap.

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