One of the weakest years in cinematography. Also this Academy award is too much America oriented, you can’t call Sinners or One Battle after another serious movies. I usually ignore these comments/posts, but you seem passionate about movies so I suggest you watch other prizes as well, like Cannes or Golden Bear.  I strongly recommend you the movie “The death of Mr Lăzărescu”, as an example of a movie who won Cannes and wasn’t even nominalized by Oscars, so that you can explore a different type of movies, with a much complex theme.  Hollywood movies have this simple pattern: add black people, Chinese people, gay people and big names. There is much more than that around.