Hollywood Cools on Ukraine, but Real Drama Is Brewing
The Academy Awards did take aim, albeit indirectly, at the principal author of Ukraine’s present pain: Vladimir Putin.

LOS ANGELES — The horrors of war were by no means absent from Hollywood’s biggest night on Sunday, but the battle raging in eastern Europe was notably absent from the spotlight. Whether that is indicative of flagging interest with the war in Ukraine, or simply an oversight in an already culturally freighted event, is debatable, but the 95th Academy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles may have marked an unavoidable inflection point not lost on some in Ukraine.
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