Oscars 2019

Re:Donen & The Death Montage: I saw somewhere once that they have to have it prepared a couple weeks in advance (due to timing and clearing the clips), so anyone who dies prior to the ceremony has to wait until next year.

That said, wasn't a big exception made for Whitney Houston or somebody else this decade?

Olivia Colman is our Favourite: https://t.co/jTMmKVhINj pic.twitter.com/yFJan1BhlX

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) February 25, 2019

You were saying, about Slant’s predictions, Morbs? Not sure many others got 7 of the top 8.

I walk into the living room, where my wife out of sheer desperation has the Awards turned on. I hear the producer of Green Book sating "This was a movie about love." My reaction: well, it's about time!

lol Peter Farrelly

Farrelly winning for a segratation film in front of Coogler and Lee's face is just straight evil mise en scène and why would one continue watching this dumb ceremony after that.

I assume he was listing names so the son couldn't have time to say something stupid (see his Globes speech), or at least that was the intended joke.

great job New Yorker spelling Coleman's name and face wrongly.

what should I watch tonight: OF FATHERS AND SONS or FREE SOLO?

(I've seen MINDING THE GAP and loved it)

Free Solo is terrific. If only for the relationship between character and filmmakers!

I want to watch Free Solo, but only if I can tie a safety line to my bedframe.

yeah I am personally terrified of heights so...

there is remarkably little discussion of OF FATHERS AND SONS that I can really find anywhere

Watch MERU before you watch FREE SOLO imho

Also this guy turned in his words impressively fast imo
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-green-book-worst-best-picture-winner-20190224-story.html

Jesus, Olivia Colman. Would love to be her mate.

GET SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AT YOU THE WAY EMMA STONE LOOKS AT OLIVIA COLEMAN! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/HJBvZUu8bl

— 9Honey Celebrity (@9HoneyCelebrity) February 25, 2019

I haven’t seen many of the other nominated film but the favourite is a great movie and the performances by the three leads are really excellent. Well deserved win by Olivia Coleman.

great job New Yorker spelling Coleman's name and face wrongly.

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK),

uh

OMG how embarrassing, I will just die over in the corner

A Quiet Place was really robbed.

Watched the Olivia Colman speech, and it will be the only thing I watch from these Oscars. Glenn Close steaming worth it alone, but most wild to see Yorgos Lanthimos crying at the Oscars. Awesome.

On the other hand,

Spike Lee: "Every time somebody's driving somebody, I lose."

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— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) February 25, 2019

"This time, the racist is in the front" etc etc.

yeah you woulda lost anyway, Shelton.

Kudos on Green Book I suppose, Eric, you know to expect the worst.

6 of the last 7 Best Actor wins have been for biographical roles. Something broken.

True, they used to split with the physically and developmentally challenged.

I saw about 10 minutes early on, and it feels so good.

https://media.giphy.com/media/2m0rqJZ0vQ0IhTCyRp/giphy.gif

frankly amazed RBG lost

If you wonder what a "champion of Green Book" sounds like, well, here is renowned liberal racist awards blogger Jeffrey Wells.

Alas, the p.c. left tried to kill Green Book over and over. Ask anyone in the Oscar-strategizing business — it was one of the ugliest attempted takedown campaigns in Hollywood history.

But Academy members, to their eternal credit, told the haters to stuff it. It’s not that I think Green Book is an especially brilliant or mesmerizimg film, or that it delivers a profoundly meaningful subcurrent or after-vibe or what-have-you, but the tears of joy that came to my eyes when it won are about the glorious decision by Academy voters to tell the Stalinist lefties and p.c. virtue-signallers to go fuck themselves…that they like or love what Green Book is about and how it made them feel, and to hell with the snooties.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2019/02/a-fairly-wonderful-thing/

as soon as I see "virtue-signallers" is when I know I'm definitely reading a well-informed and nuanced correspondent.

Doesn’t this guy know you’re not supposed to cry when you’re enjoying a delicious mug of lib tears? The tears are gonna get all mixed up and where does that leave you?

he considers himself a lib (unsurprisingly)

Wells has always been a crank, now he can join the Intellectual Dark Web

I kind of hovered for the first half--DVD going, No Country for Old Men on TV (seemed apropos: "that colossal goat-fuck out in the desert"), some computer time in the adjacent room--caught as much of the second half as I could stand. Highlight was Lady Gaga's Lola Heatherton speech ("Bradley Cooper, I want to BEAR YOUR CHILD!") about how tough she's got it. Disappointed that Jonas Mekas was left off the death roll.

there is now a place on the Oscar website for obituary also-rans

https://oscar.go.com/photos/2019/oscars-in-memoriam-2019-photos/582573fb44deb48f463bb74c0f186dff8601a960cd036f397cefa2558c1f1969

Deleted Green Book scene where Don Shirley learns about the birth of rock n' roll from Chuck's cousin Marvin Berry.

— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) February 25, 2019

Prediction: the star of the Elton John biopic wins Best Actor next year.

a world where taron egerton has an oscar would be final definitive proof that we are living in a simulation

and not a good one

When I saw that trailer for the Elton John movie, my thoughts were basically just "I guess we're going to get one of these every year now"

I saw the trailer and thought, "Well, I guess that's why they call it the blues."

i for one am psyched for the bee gees biopic starring the jonas brothers

I have had tiny dancer stuck in my head since last night. I get why these movies are made.

lol the Elton John was directed by the guy who finished Boh Rhapsody

really taking chances

shallow isn’t even a song. it only works in 20-second snippets.

what a horribly formed "song"

and BCoop was just atrocious on that duet!

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2019

I'm v happy for Colman as her performance was phenomenal but can anyone explain the rationale behind her being in the Best Actress category and Stone and Weisz being nominated for Best Supporting Actress? If anything it felt like the hierarchy of the character focus was Stone>Weisz>Colman (personally I'd put them all in the Best Actress category).

"I always have tremendous success when I go off the teleprompter--my staff loves it, and I say great things."

I'm v happy for Colman as her performance was phenomenal but can anyone explain the rationale behind her being in the Best Actress category and Stone and Weisz being nominated for Best Supporting Actress? If anything it felt like the hierarchy of the character focus was Stone>Weisz>Colman (personally I'd put them all in the Best Actress category).

― Fetchboy

The politics of securing a nomination. Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson had equal screen time.

xp Colman's character is the focal point of The Favourite, and even though they were all leading actresses, they can't put all three of them in the same category. It would've also looked weird to put Stone & Weisz in different categories, obviously fitting to have them competing in the same category as they do in the movie. in other words, arbitrary bs

what alfred said. this happens almost every year.

she was the queen

Stone>Weisz>Colman

This is correct, and they should have shared one prize, but the split meant we got a solo Colman speech