Oscars 2019

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

also the Welch/Rawlings cowboy song parody offered some good performance options

So long as it keeps the Oscars from adding a g-d stunt category, I'm fine with them keeping best song and the other twenty-odd categories.

yes, there should be a separate Stunt Awards, so that they can be awarded retroactively to at least 1918

i'm ok with this, altho the welch song could have been fun.

let's name the 8 awards that will be given out during commercials

best song will obv be live bcz Gaga

There can be a hundred people in the room, and 99 don’t believe in you, but one does.

- from some movie I will not be seeing

it's a thing Gaga says in every. single. interview. about her Oscar possibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxsX_30tjs

99/100 people didn't think Lady Gaga was believable.

but one did.

NARRATOR'S VOICE

bradley cooper looks successively more embarrassed every time she says it

Could care less about the telecast or results, but the revenues from the ceremony fund film preservation efforts. If the Academy wants to add stunts or best popular film or a zillion other categories, have at it.

the Green Book one is funny

www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2019s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/academy-asked-queen-open-oscars-bohemian-rhapsody-success-1202040335/

too bad, cuz i always miss the first 5 minutes

Struggling to understand how Kevin Hart is irreplaceable tbh

Struggling to understand how AMPAS hasn't proactively rescinded all nominations that aren't Black Panther, A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody tbh

And Green Book, shurely?

Nah, that movie didn't make $500 million at the box office which will surely translate to a total ratings rebound.

the show is gonna open with viggo mortensen doing both parts of the green acres theme song

"Viggo, what's your favorite word?"

they are predictin'

https://www.slantmagazine.com/category/awards/

The Two Moods pic.twitter.com/RdmKwB6i47

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) February 5, 2019

Average Academy voter: https://www.thedailybeast.com/anonymous-oscar-voters-blasts-smear-campaigns-against-green-book-and-bohemian-rhapsody

Best Director. In that category, will the winner be Alfonso Cuaron for Roma?

I do not like Roma. I don’t hate it. It’s fine. I just don’t understand the fuss. Some of his films are my favorites of all time, but not this one. I’m going with Peter Farrelly for Green Book.

But it’ll have to be a write-in. He wasn’t nominated.

Oh!

Maybe they didn’t transcend the controversy?

Then Adam McKay for Vice.

Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me? I’ve been a fan of him for years. His performance was such a departure from what I’ve seen him do.

I thought he always played messy gays.

I take it that in Musto's memory, Withnail and Hudson Hawk are the same movie, and he's not seen REG in anything else since.

The queen had all her pet rabbits, but I bet Glenn Close could boil them in no time.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tkEBXiVB--/dbrp9slgdhhvbznzdz27.jpg

Is it weird that for BlacKkKlansman, Adam Driver is nominated (for supporting), but not John David Washington (for lead)?

I didn’t think Denzel Washington’s son deserved to be nominated. He was fine, but not over-the-top spectacular. The thing that made that film work on a bipartisan level was Adam Driver, so I’m not disappointed that he got nominated. Is it problematic that there’s only two supporting nominees, Mahershala Ali (Green Book) and Regina King, as black actors nominated? It could be. We’re always tending to be portrayed as a bunch of racist white people by our own Academy, so the fact that BlacKkKlansman and Black Panther were nominated for Best Picture will subdue that.

Yeah, I’m skipping the show this year.

so many choice bits

Gaga could act and you finally got to see her for who she was, as opposed to the persona she portrays onstage -- so that's how acting works, got it

We’re always tending to be portrayed as a bunch of racist white people by our own Academy, so the fact that BlacKkKlansman and Black Panther were nominated for Best Picture will subdue that.

"Denzel Washington's son"

you know, it's sometimes hard to remember all 3 names of a really bland actor

Those anonymous articles are quickly becoming my favorite part of Oscar season.

So Lady Gaga’s performance in A Star is Born is no competition?

Ugh. I am not a fan of A Star is Born. The one thing I loved is Bradley Cooper’s hair. I don’t know how he got his hair to do that!

anonymous Oscar voter otm

this show could be a magnificent travesty, and it might not even take four hours to watch.

I saw the live-action and animated shorts nominees. Are they always such a grim lot?

I’ve seen all of the animated ones except Weekends. One Small Step is good; the others, meh. Most of the live action ones didn’t sound interesting to me this year; I’ve only seen Fauve (which I liked).

the animated ones are usually about like a rabbit or a sandcastle, I saw the live action shorts today and they were not only terrible but contemptible, emotionally exploitative on top of being aesthetically repulsive.