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How This Year’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees Fight the Power

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Gregg Goldstein From the most commercial movies to the artiest of arthouse fare, all of the year’s best picture Oscar nominees have one thing in common: themes of power struggles and an anti-authoritarian streak.

This reporter spoke with the filmmakers behind “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans,” “Tár,” “Triangle of Sadness” and “Women Talking” about how they explored these topics and why they’re so relevant today. “Our world is at an inflection point where we’re questioning hierarchical power,” says “Tár” writer-director Todd Field. “There’s a reason we’re seeing movements against authority and people that have held power: for a long time, no one questioned it.” “Women Talking” producer Dede Gardner feels that “reckoning with authoritarian thinking, power structures and behavior systems is the issue of our day.

I think it’s scaring people [because] we don’t know what to do about it, and it’s coming out of places we never expected.” Those include the reversal of Roe v.

Wade, Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, the #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite movements, onetime Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reportedly “reckoning with what he considers his party’s slide toward authoritarianism,” new anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and rising levels of prejudice and police brutality.

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