{"id":34781,"date":"2025-03-02T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-observer-view-on-the-oscars-a-night-of-toe-curling-embarassment-awaits-observer-editorial\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T06:59:29","slug":"the-observer-view-on-the-oscars-a-night-of-toe-curling-embarassment-awaits-observer-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-observer-view-on-the-oscars-a-night-of-toe-curling-embarassment-awaits-observer-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer view on the Oscars: a night of toe-curling embarassment awaits | Observer editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At such a juncture of history, Hollywood must deliver its best: melodrama, conspiracy, dreams \u2013 not to mention the films<\/p>\n<p>There is a common complaint among film buffs that cinema, dominated by superhero fantasies and blockbuster franchises, isn\u2019t what it used to be. They look back misty-eyed to the 1940s heyday of the studio system or to the 1970s rise of the counterculture auteurs as celluloid golden ages that are destined never to be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>It is, then, a rebuke to the naysayers that the 97th Academy Awards boasts a full array of compelling genres: steamy melodrama, political conspiracy thriller, science-fiction action and disaster epic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/02\/the-observer-view-on-the-oscars-a-night-of-toe-curling-deliciousness-awaits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At such a juncture of history, Hollywood must deliver its best: melodrama, conspiracy, dreams \u2013 not to mention the films There is a common complaint among film buffs that cinema, dominated by superhero fantasies and blockbuster franchises, isn\u2019t what it used to be. They look back misty-eyed to the 1940s heyday of the studio system &#8230; <a title=\"The Observer view on the Oscars: a night of toe-curling embarassment awaits | Observer editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-observer-view-on-the-oscars-a-night-of-toe-curling-embarassment-awaits-observer-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Observer view on the Oscars: a night of toe-curling embarassment awaits | Observer editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}