Review | The Oscars set a new tone for the 97th annual awards ceremony - The Daily Iowan

Review | The Oscars set a new tone for the 97th annual awards ceremony - The Daily Iowan

The same debate around the Oscars occurs every year: Do they matter? As a psycho who spends far too much time reading about and engaging with contemporary film culture, I sure hope they do. This year’s 97th Academy Awards finally offered evidence to support my hope for the importance of the show, thanks to a record-breaking statistic. Every winner in the main acting awards ­— Best Picture, Best Director, Best Animated, and Best International Fea…

The Oscars Recap: Big Awards and Everything In Between

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Pace chapter. From the faces on the silver screen to the hard workers behind the camera, the Oscars signifies the best of the best. Cinephiles from all over await this event to celebrate their favorite films — or hope the ones they didn’t like don’t win. A year’s worth of discourse bubbles down into one evening. So, was this year’s awards show worth it? Let’s discuss.  The show o…

97th Academy Awards post-mortem: Should we replace the Academy voters with a poll on Letterboxd?

While blockbusters like “Dune: Part Two” and cultural phenomena like “Challengers” dominated at the box office and in the public’s hearts and minds, when placed in between years chock-full of hits like 2023 and the promise of 2025 releases, 2024 seems meek in comparison.  Going into awards season, sheer mediocrity made clear consensus impossible. With the Academy Awards capping a season marked by shifting consensus — where each weekend crowned a…

After the film “Flow” will take the Oscar Award of this 2025 for Best Animated Film, Gints Zibalodis, went that same night to a restaurant of a very famous hamburger chain in the United States to celebrate the award. However, the festivities did not end there. What else did the director of ‘Flow’ do after winning his Oscar? Here we tell you. Continue reading: deserved! These are the winners in all categories of the Oscar 2025 Awards So celebrate…