Oscar Best Picture Winners Are Getting Smaller—And That’s a Good Thing

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By Stephanie Zacharek March 3, 2025 3:57 PM EST D epending on whom you listen to, as a society we no longer care about the Oscars : the movies are dead, long live streaming product. Or we care about the Oscars too much—don’t people know there are wars going on? Do we care, should we care, is there really anything left there to care about? It seems, now that the 2025 edition is in the rear-view mirror—a ceremony during which Sean Baker’s independently made Anora won a total of five Academy