Oscar winners aren't the best barometers by which to gauge the national mood. Movies and politics work at different speeds, reshaping themselves"and absorbing each other"in unpredictable bursts. Five months after the Kennedy assassination, the Best Picture award went to the British period comedy "Tom Jones," starring Albert Finney as an eighteenth-century rake. Six months after 9/11, it was "A Beautiful Mind," with R…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 02:41PM on December 2, 2016