Oscar Best Picture Films Have a History Highlighting Social Issues
variety.comSteven Gaydos Executive VP of Content Since the beginning of the Academy Awards in the late 1920s, Hollywood filmmakers have been making socially conscious films.
Many of the best of those have scored the film town’s top honor — Oscar best picture. This year, that winner could be “Oppenheimer,” a film that boldly and starkly dramatizes the creation of man’s most dangerous invention: atomic weapons.
It could be “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a film that brought a lost and dreadful piece of American history into the sunlight of the Cannes Film Festival and ultimately the spotlights of awards season.
It could be either “Barbie” or “Poor Things,” two of the wildest, most colorful and inventive investigations of feminist and/or post-feminist womanhood to ever hit the big screen.
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