The Forgotten Oscar Darlings

The Oscars are ostensibly the anointing of a year’s great films: Here’s what the high minds of Hollywood made these past 12 months; let’s exalt them now, for our sake and posterity’s. When a big war movie wins Best Picture or a thespian on the up-and-up gets Best Actor, their place is supposedly sealed in history: The Academy has spoken, and the winner’s legacy is secured.