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That’s how it was at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, when The Shape of Water took the Best Picture award at the end of an evening that was studiously not about the issues that have dominated Hollywood over the course of the past few months—except when it was. After all, at times this year’s Oscars seemed a tribute to an imagined past Oscars of the mind, and then at times they seemed something radical and new. I missed the relentless satiric mind of past Oscar host Chris Rock as Kimmel made a joke about the 2000 film What Women Want, or joked about a “tweetstorm from the President’s toilet.” Read more: See All the Winners of the 2018 Oscars His most urgently beat drum was the idea that the deliverer of the shortest Oscar speech would win a Jet-Ski. For viewers at home, a host with moral authority—someone to have done as much to contextualize Judd, Sciorra, and Hayek Pinault—might have been nice. No show needs to address the President, but no show can be apolitical. The Oscars as a ceremony basically tried to be, but its performers, presenters, and winners rejected it, and that’s to their credit. Oldman’s counterpart, Frances McDormand, did too. It was a signal to viewers at home, too. No matter—it reached even some viewers jaded by McDormand’s omnipresence these past months.) “I wish I was a woman, I really do,” Kimmel said, taking the stage after McDormand’s speech.