Host Jimmy Kimmel, acting as MC for the third time, was widely expected to be a safe pair of hands, and so it proved for the most part. Here are some of the night’s most egregious and surprising omissions, as well as a couple of outright shockers. Yet its domination of the ceremony, winning seven awards, meant that many equally (if not more) deserving pictures, and those who worked on them, were snubbed. There was a clear intention to laud the modish Everything Everywhere At Once there was no last-minute momentum behind a rival film, unlike Coda last year, and so the long-standing frontrunner triumphed, as it was expected to. Yet Grant hit upon a universal truth about the 2023 Academy Awards’ lack of variety. When Hugh Grant was reluctantly interviewed on the red carpet for this year’s Oscars by an over-enthusiastic Ashley Graham, his ironic remark that “the whole of humanity is here…it’s Vanity Fair” – an allusion to Thackeray’s satirical novel, rather than the glossy magazine that sponsors the after-party – soon went viral.
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