A quiet moment in the noisy bar at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday night crystallized the feeling many people in Hollywood have at the end of Oscar season.
"We can breathe again," Stellan Skarsgård ("Sentimental Value") said to Jacob Elordi ("Frankenstein"), as the two nominees for supporting actor hugged and expressed relief about not having to deliver a speech. They had just lost to Sean Penn ("One Battle After Another"), who didn't even attend the show.
Much of the drama of this awards season has been the back-and-forth between two well-loved films, "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners," which dueled all night. "One Battle" ultimately won six awards, including best picture, and "Sinners" collected four awards, including best actor. There was a particular poignance to the dominance of the two movies, both made for a 103-year-old studio — Warner Bros. — that has just been acquired by Paramount Skydance and is expected to change radically if that merger goes through.
As awards season winds down, this Oscars gave us lots of moments to remember. Here are just a few …
