No one expected drama from the 2022 Oscars. For an occasion that supposedly celebrates innovation and imagination in the film industry, the Academy Awards has cultivated an almost impressively tedious reputation in recent years, constituting several hours of repetitive back-patting and mainly White people winning things, interjected with the occasional tearful speech.

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