content: Yup. The Danish Girl is Oscar Gold, plain and simple. It's one of the oldest tricks in the Hollywood book.  Want an Oscar? Just make some tepid contemporary or period drama about some disadvantaged subject or historical tragedy, lather it in tawdry and vacuous moralistic sentimentality, and watch film critics cream their pants and have awards thrown at you like panties at a pre-LSD Beatles concert. It  Never  Fails