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.

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At the Academy Awards, Edward Berger accepts the award for best international feature film for ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ March 12, 2023, at Los Angeles. AP/Chris Pizzello

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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