Oscars 2019

lol: the makeup guy who gave rami malek horse teeth got a nomination

... Bohemian Rhapsody didn't get nominated for makeup tho?

whoops, I was looking at the TFE list page which was predictions.

as producer of 4 Little Girls, yes xp

I believe the Katrina docs were both made for HBO.

The Academy's bias against Asian ci-ne-mah persists.

Shoplifters got in FLF... I am somewhat relieved by the Steven Yeun omission.

(and by Burning's, truth be told)

People are sharing this about on Twitter, i've no recollection of it at all. It must've been cut from the tv coverage in the UK, they did a next-day highlights package on the BBC in the 80s, until the early 90s when Sky began showing it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bclKPuuE0

Fair dos; Spike's kids going nuts

Spike Lee’s reaction to this morning’s #OscarNoms. #BlacKkKlansman

📹: @sirjacksonlewislee on Instagram pic.twitter.com/0OvhWa3V3n

— BlacKkKlansman (@BlacKkKlansman) January 22, 2019

I believe the Katrina docs were both made for HBO.

Which means, these days, they would've been eligible.

No, didn't they change the rules again after the O.J. debacle?

no Wiseman again is of course a disgrace, but they gave him an honorary last year.

Just looked at the list. Mild rooting interest in Bale--no feelings about anybody else. They should give some kind of an award for the "It's Too Late to Turn Back Now" scene in BlacKkKlansman.

Is this going to be the least watched telecast ever?

If it is, ABC backs out of their contract with the Academy the very next day.

Based on how the ratings have been trending, yes.

uh what

you guys aware that two blockbusters are up for Best Picture? It's gonna do better than the last few broadcasts.

They should give out the Academy Awards as the Super Bowl halftime show.

I said "if it is," ftr, but I also believe that people are probably kidding themselves if they think Black Panther is going to bring the show back to Titanic ratings.

Feels like Black Panther came out three years ago.

I hadn't thought of the blockbuster impact, you're right.

All I wanted was Sade for Widows.

all the little monsters will surely tune in for ASIB

From filmexperience.net Oscar trivia post:

We believe but we don't yet have the clarification that Marina de Tavira is now the ONLY performer ever in the modern era to receive an Oscar nomination without a single notice from critics awards or precursors of any kind. Not a single one. And remember there are 40+ now. There were far fewer precursor awards in 2000 when Marcia Gay Harden stormed toward the Oscar for Pollock out of the blue significant precursor attention but she did have a smidgeon of precursor support. She was a Spirit nominee and she won one major prize: The NYFCC for Supporting Actress.

I said "if it is," ftr, but I also believe that people are probably kidding themselves if they think Black Panther is going to bring the show back to Titanic ratings.

― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 22, 2019

never wrote that!

Another out-of-nowhere nom that readers picked up on:

Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah

Marina de Tavira nom might be an indicator of how many people have been watching Roma on Netflix just in the last month or so.

I honestly didn't even grok that Black Panther was one of the BP nominees till just now. I pretend it ends around the 75-minute mark. #teamkillmonger

anyway despite the lack of a director nom I'm putting my $$ on ASIB

Absolutely no one likes how long the broadcast is. Putting a firm cap on it (3 hours) and doing only two montages (memoriam and + rando) would probably have more people stay tuned in. Or do they make it so long for commercial dollars?

it's because they love themselves so much I think

No, even the attendees usually talk about how much they hate how long it is.

I was (kind of) joking, I definitely would be stressed out spending 3+ hours in front of cameras

as a viewer I've never minded the length of it, for people on the west coast it doesn't run so late that we have to worry about getting up for work the next day

ok looking it up I'm surprised to see on wikipedia that it's run closer to 4 hours than 3 hours the last six years in a row

I hold the opposing view that people don't care about the results as much as they care how entertaining the broadcast is. People obv. remember the results more than the presenter but if there's no one to host the show that's going to make you laugh, or possibly make you laugh, then no one will care enough to watch with much enthusiasm. Watching Chris Rock presenting in the year of *oscars so white* was a treat, for example.

Also, people talk about how it's too long but the fact that it's too long is the point of it. If it was actually too long then they could just press-release the results. It would make for terrible oscar parties though.

The fact that it's too long is what gives it the little cultural currency that it has. If it lasts two hours and doesn't have a host then it is truly fucked.

I agree, yet I still hold the 2001 telecast with Steve Martin as host was the most fleet of foot.

Steve Martin was the best. I loved his opening line: "800m people around the world are watching us, and they're all thinking the same thing: we're all gay"

ha!

Ugh I don't enjoy there being only one, maybe two awards announced after one hour in.

Absolutely no one likes how long the broadcast is

I do

So does Kyle Buchanan:
https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/my-unpopular-opinion-the-oscars-should-always-be-long.html

Another out-of-nowhere nom that readers picked up on:
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah

why for the love of Douglas Fairbanks would anyone remember this fucking shit

it's a sodding assbackwards trade show

“hosting the oscar is like making love to a beautiful woman, it's something I only get to do when billy crystal was out of town.”

"...Didn't inhale?"

That is precisely the point of a loooong dining table.

So @theacademy continues to baffle in decision making. This has to be the single worst executed year for the awards body, in a year that they have a great crop of nominees! #JohnBaileyResign https://t.co/30GKSv8k0u via @variety

— Clayton Davis (@AwardsCircuit) January 24, 2019

get rid of that award completely.

but this is still bad.

no, it's a fun award that (in other years) offers an opportunity to add lively variety to the telecast