With in-person events gearing back up, and the entire industry probably starved for gossip, Elliott could remain a talking point for weeks. And all it takes is for one extremely online Oscar voter to attend an event this weekend and tell five less-online Oscar voters that homophobes are attacking The Power of the Dog. For all the Academy’s attempts to gin up reasons for audiences to watch the show, people really do want to talk about these movies-both for the weird controversies that surround them and the actual craft and storytelling that went into making them. ![]() (And truly, thank God for that.) But much like the clip from West Side Story that went viral over the weekend, this level of attention suggests that there’s something broader going on. To be clear, as Oscar watchers gladly remind us this time every year: The vast majority of actual voters are not following any of this on Twitter. Moonlight’s 2017 win is proof enough of how much the Oscars have changed since then, as is the fact that The Power of the Dog has made it this long without this kind of pushback. The speculation about how Crash pulled off that upset continues to this day, but a plausible theory is that there were just too many voters like Curtis and Borgnine who weren’t ready for a sweeping romance about two men. This is exactly what didn’t happen in 2006.
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