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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was watching Bill Mayer last night and he did a story on how large number of Best actress awards went to women who played hookers or sex workers. Think it was over 20 or more. Lovely. Anyone could have played that part in Anora it was nothing special. [/quote]

That's really interesting.  I'm sure it's in part due to misogyny and that sex is titillating.  But it's also because it sort of goes to the core of the female struggle over thousands of years and so it provides a lot of meat for female actresses dealing with the female condition. At some level, we're all dealing with the comidification of our bodies and trying to find a way to assert ownership of our sexuality and selves.  [/quote]

NP and I think you are giving the academy more credit than they deserve.  They love to glamorize sex work and do “research” and thank the sex worker community.  They don’t give two sh**s.  Sex and nudity sells and they exploit women in movies all the time.[/quote]

+ 1 billion!!![/quote]

And the cycle just repeats as movie houses back movies they know “will sell” sex/nudity. I disagree that stories about sex workers are about THE human condition or even the female condition. They are stories about a subset of people. If they are the only stories honored, is overall disservice to women and reinforces to be in entertainment as a female, greatest odds your roles will be a stripper, sex worker, rape victim or cadaver who was a stripper, sex worker or rape victim. [/quote]

I liked Anora. It was well done. And I disagree that it’s not about the human condition - from my vantage point it is and transcends a story purely about sex workers. 
 
My concern is that Anora got the attention it did because the sex scenes / dancing scenes were relatively graphic for theater movies. If it weren’t so graphic and these scenes shot to be less revealing and “real”, the movie would not have gotten the kind of attention it did. And this isn’t just bad for women actors, it plays into a mode of “gimmicky” film making that isn’t great for audiences. It’s akin to movies that get attention for the special effects or “realistic” graphic violence versus the story line and acting underneath it.

In sum: Mickey Madison was great in Anora. Strong performance. Good movie. But she shouldn’t have won the Oscar. [/quote]

I'm not sure Anora would have received as much attention if the main actor in Emilia Perez had not posted racist comments to her social media. Emilia Perez was the talk of the town until the racist posts came out.

I noticed the Oscars pretty much kept the actress off screen as much as possible. [/quote]

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