‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ ‘American Fiction’ and ‘The Boy and the Heron’ among other early winners.
Sometimes a little bit longer can mean a little bit better.
For years, each of the acting Oscar recipients from the previous year would return to announce a new winner — but for the 96th annual Academy Awards, five previous winners took the stage for the supporting actor and actress presentations, each delivering a message to one of the nominees.
It was a nice touch, especially seeing as how some younger or more casual viewers might not have known, for example, that Mary Steenburgen won the Oscar for 1980’s “Melvin and Howard,” a wonderful early film by Jonathan Demme, who of course directed the multiple Oscar-winning “The Silence of the Lambs,” which starred Jodie Foster, who won Oscar for that movie and was nominated again this year for “Nyad.
