The Oscars and politics have mixed many, many times

Considering the state of things, two questions come to mind. Who cares whether Timothée Chalamet’s views on opera hurt his chances of winning best actor at the 98th Academy Awards? Second, will we see any protests, even symbolic, during the ceremony?

As you might expect, given the enormous nexus of money and power and the role US cinema has played in shaping the Anglophone sense of reality over the last 100 years, overt politics frequently encroaches on Hollywood night nights.