The question for this Sunday’s Oscars is not whether the ceremony will get political, but in what ways, according to a story in Variety. Jimmy Kimmel will return to host, after spending the intervening year confronting politics for the first time on his show, focusing particularly on health care and gun control. The #MeToo movement is sure to be a topic of conversation both for Kimmel, who promised that it would be part of the show, and other speakers. Though RNC spokesman Steve Guest pre-emptively criticized the awards show for being “Hollywood liberals blabbing about politics,” George Mason University media professor Robert Lichter expects Sunday to be a showcase for political unity. “This is a cause solidarity,” Lichter told Variety. “Solidarity against Trump. Solidarity against gun violence… I will be surprised if, one way or the other, there are not a lot of expressions of political unity.”
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