Our partner Mauro Mueller attended the 98th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Reflecting on the experience, he sees the Oscars not as an endpoint, but as “a carefully engineered system”—a brief, illuminated crossroads before everything dissolves back into the long, uncertain process of making the next film.
If you’d like to read more about the night, you can find his full Substack essay here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-191439423