Awards award ceremony – Oscars 2025: The name Trump did not fall

Anyone who expected explicit political tones against Donald Trump at this year’s Oscar gala was disappointed. The mostly left -liberal Hollywood kept his feet still. The name of the new old US president was not mentioned. Only at the end of the show on Sunday evening in Los Angeles could moderator Conan O’Brien be carried away to the remark: “I think the Americans are thrilled that someone finally prevails against a mighty Russian.” This led to great applause. He alluded to Trump’s attitude towards Putin and the big winner of the 97th Oscar ceremony: the film “Anora”, which tells of a New York sex worker who gets involved with a relationship with a Russian oligarch son and does not allow himself to be offered by its violent family attachment.

The drama, a kind of “anti-pretty woman”, which tells of class differences, capitalist constraints, migration, male dominance and misogyner violence, had already won the golden palm in Cannes. Now “Anora” received the Oscar in the most important category: as the best film. 25-year-old Mikey Madison was also able to look forward to the prize as the best leading actress; Sean Baker received the award as the best director and the Oscars for the best original script and the best cut.

The films with a record -breaking number of nominations, especially the musical “Emilia Pérez”, received far fewer prices than expected. Zoe Soldana received the Oscar as the best supporting actress, and the title song from “Emilia Pérez” also received an Oscar. But after it became known a few weeks ago that leading actress Karla Sofía Gascón had posted numerous anti-Islam and racist comments on social media in the past (among other things against the Black-Lives-Matter movement), it was clear that the film should hardly have Oscar chances.

At least three Oscars became from the ten nominations for the over three -hour opus “The Brutalist”, as expected, Adrien Brody received the coveted trophy as the best leading actor. Director Brady Corbet told “Variety” that Trump wanted to turn the time back in the direction of the 1950s. What is politically primarily for migrants, the film explains in a disturbing way. The Vatican thriller “Conclave” of the German director Edward Berger, who was nominated ten times, who tells about political ranking in the Pope election, was just given an Oscar for the best adapted script.

German expectations were disappointed this year. Only Gerd Nefzer received an Oscar for the visual effects in “Dune 2” – his third by the way; He had received the others for “Blade Runner 2049” and “Dune 1”. On the other hand, “the seeds of the Holy Feigenbaum”, a political family drama that tells of conflicts and fights in Iran, whose German producers had still hoped for an award as the best international film.

Instead, this coveted trophy received the Brazilian contribution “Forever here”, which can be seen in German cinemas from mid -March. The film stages the real history of the socialist politician Rubens Paiva, which was deported by the governing fascist military in the 1970s and murdered in the torture prison. His wife then started studying law and, after the dictatorship, became an icon of investigating the crimes of the military dictatorship in Brazil.

The fact that this under the skin was awarded an anti -fascist family opus can of course also be understood as a political statement against the current development in the United States under Donald Trump. Even if Hollywood does not seem to be in political terms against Donald Trump’s new regime, “Anora” and “The Brutalist” are at least explicitly explicitly political films among the winners of the evening.

The film “No Other Land”, which is hotly discussed in Germany, was also the best documentary. In the United States, the film about the conflict between villagers in the West Bank and the Israeli army, which built a military training area in its field, has not found a lender and is now sold by the filmmakers themselves. With applause, the Palestinian co-director Basel ADRA called to “stop the ethnic cleaning of the Palestinian people”.

The question so often asked in recent years as “knows” the Oscars are actually or how underrepresented are non -white actors and filmmakers, hardly played a role this year. The adaptation of Colson Whiteheads with the Pulitzer Prize Awarded novel “Nickel Boys” was nominated for two Oscars, but went away empty-handed. This is despite the fact that the extraordinary film about racism and abuse in the American youth penalty of the 1960s was discussed in some US feature lages.

Director Ramell Ross implements this depressing book as a not quite simple, lyrically -looking film with exceptional camera work. The “New York Times” described the 42-year-old documentary filmmaker, who presented his first feature film with “Nickel Boys”, recently even as a director who “reinvented the act of seeing”. In Germany, the film, which was launched in the United States in December, does not even come to cinemas, but has been seen at Amazon Prime since last week. This is reminiscent of the racism -critical film “American Fiction”, which in 2024 got an Oscar (best adapted script), but did not make it into the cinema in this country.

So the Oscar gala did not offer big surprises this year, after it was not clear until a few weeks after the devastating fires in Los Angeles whether it was taking place at all. Among other things, academy member Stephen King had spoken out against the gala. The money for this should rather be paid into auxiliary funds for those affected, while others emphasized that the Oscar show could be used for charity purposes. Overall, the surrounding of the Oscar ceremony was much smaller this year. Events in advance as well as various parties were canceled. The ceremony is said to have cost an estimated $ 50 million.

In contrast, the political films are inexpensive this year. The three -hour “the brutalist”, “Anora” only cost almost $ 6 million. Only Jesse Eisenberg’s “Real Pain” via a Shoah training trip to Poland, for which Kieran Culkin received the Oscar as the best supporting actor, was even cheaper with $ 3 million. The anti -fascist opus “Forever here” only cost $ 1.5 million. So political film doesn’t have to be expensive. Let’s see if at least that has arrived in Hollywood.