Hey, thanks for reading! Since this prompt was about the Oscar competition & comparisons, I didn't dig into specific themes. I did write a piece last year on my Substack, though, that gets into the queerness of it all, and then some:

https://open.substack.com/pub/popdeco/p/cabaret-american-exceptionalism-and?r=3erqzm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true