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Generally agree with this description of the Oscar dilemma, but this year it could have been resolved by giving the Best Picture to "A Star is Born":
It made twice as much money as "Green Book," had better reviews, and its leads generated the show's most memorable moment. It wasn't the best movie of the year but it was the movie you reward if you want to be a mass market show without annoying cinephiles.
My sense is that the other factor here was the Trump effect, where Best Picture voters want to make a political statement For These Troubled Times -- and though the woke didn't like Green Book, for the merely liberal it felt like just the middlebrow statement they wanted.
