{"id":2325234,"date":"2026-03-12T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325234"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:55:57","slug":"the-oscar-best-picture-winners-have-long-been-a-sign-of-the-times-this-year-even-more-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-oscar-best-picture-winners-have-long-been-a-sign-of-the-times-this-year-even-more-so\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar Best Picture Winners Have Long Been a Sign of the Times. This Year Even More So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The Oscar for best picture goes to the best picture. Yet there\u2019s another way to read that most defining and crucial of Oscar categories. If you look back at the best picture winners from years past, they will often tell you a great deal about what was churning around in the culture \u2014 the themes and passions and rocky incarnations of what was once called the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068646\/\">The Godfather<\/a>\u201d and its majestically dark sequel cast their grand shadow over the first half of the \u201970s. Their dual Oscar wins for best picture expressed, among other things, a national reckoning with the idea that America had become a land of corruption. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079417\/\">Kramer vs. Kramer<\/a>\u201d (1979) caught the lacerating social change wrought by the age of divorce. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082158\/\">Chariots of Fire<\/a>\u201d (1981), with its stiff-upper-lip reverence, embodied the return to \u201ctraditional values\u201d of the Reagan era, while \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0109830\/\">Forrest Gump<\/a>\u201d (1994) captured how history itself was becoming,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar for best picture goes to the best picture. 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