Feb. 8, 2022 was supposed to be an exciting day for me. The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were released, and this was the first full calendar year I really started getting into film. But the nominations didn’t excite me nearly as much as I thought they would. Not that I’ve seen every critically acclaimed film from 2021 and was disappointed with the selections — I haven’t.
But the premise, style and aura of these films are certainly different from previous years. And unlike many of the cultural shifts seen in the past couple of years, this cannot be pinned on COVID-19.
Source: Op-Ed: Cinema’s renaissance is dead; the gilded age has just begun