23rd Academy Awards

Age in Hollywood and Actresses having to change their identity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/tv-movies-hollywood-women.html?referringSource=articleShare (great article, but they use Sunset Boulevard as the example of where we have come from)

Not that this is anything new, but aging women in Hollywood were and still are thrown aside on the trash heap once they pass a certain age, lets say 25. They are viewed as lesser than their worth because age does not equal beauty. That cut off between beauty and washed up starlet has only been pushed back and back and back over the years. Now we celebrate them and praise actresses when they are daring to show their age. It can be viewed as something fantastic and brave, human. It could also be the moments that woman have been waiting for. To prove that their beauty is lasting and that age is natural. In terms of Best Picture winners, we see a huge turn in the 1950 winner All About Eve….

“Back then, and until quite recently, anything past 40 was considered ancient in Hollywood years. “It’s always been this youth-obsessed industry,” said Yalda T. Uhls, founder and executive director of U.C.L.A.’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers.

Men could find roles whatever their age, but women might disappear from the screen during perimenopause, or emerge a few years later in supporting roles, usually as dowdy, eccentric or senile grandmothers, evil stepmothers or spinster aunts”. - NY Times article

“Great actresses are kind of enjoying being nonglamorous and not trying to look 20,” Dr. Douglas said. “They’re looking their age and they’re proud of that and they work with it.”

Inclusion of Marilyn Monroe in the film and how her career start was part of this film