This year’s Academy Awards were, among other things, another celebration of genre filmmaking, a recent trend that’s already included a romance from the Black Lagoon and a homicidal story of upwards mobility. Everything Everywhere All At Once deservedly took home the night’s highest honor, while other nominations reflected 2022’s cinematic variety. For the first time in a while, it felt like the Oscars were letting some new blood trickle in... but in a year filled with so much audacious filmmaking, there were some notable omissions.
