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This Year Gave Us the Perfect Oscars Best Picture Lineup

Everyone’s a Winner

Everyone will have a gripe about snubs, but this is the first time that Best Picture is the ideal of what expanding the category was meant to do.

A. A. Dowd
A. A. Dowd 

Freelance Writer

Photo illustration of Margot Robbie in Barbie, Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction with Oscar statues
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Warner Bros./Orion Pictures/Universal Pictures
A. A. Dowd

A. A. Dowd

Freelance Writer

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