Oscars 2020

An anonymous actress weighs in...

Little Women was badly acted and confusing, and I have no idea why they cast four British actresses to play American girls. [Emma Watson and Florence Pugh are British, but Saoirse Ronan is Irish-American, and Eliza Scanlen is Australian.] And every time they said they were poor, I gagged — they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.

Oh my god...

And they're not very little!

of course she's a big Inglourious Mansons fan

now now

So for me, it was between [Pain and Glory's] Antonio Banderas and [Joker's] Joaquin Phoenix, and I had to go with Joaquin because that is a performance that sticks in your mind. Antonio's was much more subtle and poignant; Joaquin hit it out of the park.

There you go, she decided me.

de Niro (subtle) and Sandler (not) robbed by this floozie

I've now come to accept "Brutally Honest Oscar Voter" as "Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote On Dog Catcher."

And every time they said they were poor, I gagged — they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.

All that statement proves is that America is actually worse now than when young girls regularly died of scarlet fever.

Parasite is beautifully done, but it didn't hold up the second time, and I don't think foreign films should be nominated with the regular films.

I liked 1917 and Sam Mendes' direction, but I thought Quentin did a great job, and I want an American director to win.

I won't vote for [Harriet's] Cynthia Erivo because I think that they should have gotten an American actress to play Harriet [Tubman], not an English actress.

I didn't know Hedda Hopper was still alive.

MOGA

this could be Jeff Wells in drag

I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never understand the preoccupation with Manson etc.

way to break precedent by not bumping this thread

haven't seen a minute of this

so nothing major aside from Pitt lambasting the impeachment verdict, eh

Wow (director)

oh, Bong for directing

They say when you've lost Brad Pitt, you've lost Mr. and Mrs. Middle America.

Hah! Just kidding. Wake me up when Pat Sajak publically roasts the Senate for not removing Trump from office.

I guess Parasite could win BP maaaybe

I still suspect best doc feature will go to the Obamas' prod co (American Factory)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 20, 2020

Yeah, that was my initial hunch but Ed won me over.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, January 20, 2020

Who ya gonna call?

I only lightly taunted him over that.

THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE

omg Parasite!

Awesome

Congrats to the Academy for giving it to a pretty good film w/ kind of a boringly violent last 20 minutes

better than they usually do!

holy shit

First foreign language film to win Best Picture, not to mention Best Director

I did not expect either of those. wow.

something else to trigger the MAGAts. nice.

I started to suspect this after the second win but I’m surprised none the less

My suspicion is despite 1917’s alleged momentum no one really cared much about that film and it just seemed like an empty choice of a default agreed upon generic best pic even for the historically low standards of the academy in that regard.

It's amazing that a rather good film won the top two categories.

Best Best Picture winner since No Country for Old Men?

everybody I know talked about wanting to see it. not a single one did see it (1917)

xpost I think so.

I honestly thought this might happen in terms of 1917 not taking it (it’s not a film that has anything to cling onto for this group of voters imo) but I thought OUATIH might be the one to sneak in and grab it. But parasite really had a lot of quiet momentum too.

xxxp exactly what i was thinking (best since NCFOM)

i would have been angry and disturbed had Parasite not won

Best Best Picture winner since No Country for Old Men?

I prefer 12 Years a Slave and The Hurt Locker to Parasite, meself. But it's better than shit like Argo and The Shape of Water, obviously.

and Birdman, fucking Birdman

PARASITE

hell yeah

I thought Guðnadóttir's speech was the highlight of the night.

The Hurt Locker is a really fine best picture choice. The worst of the post-NCFOM run is probably ARGO imo, it was just such a dumbed-down, amped-up version of what is I'm sure a fairly interesting story. The tone felt like the fake film at the end of The Player.

tonight's winner is significantly inferior to Little Women and The Irishman btw

(not to mention, say, Ash Is Purest White)

King’s Speech was the worst IMO especially since that was an otherwise really good set of nominees.

King's Speech was leagues worse than Argo, up there with Crash in worst-to-win

Watched about a third, heard another third--about normal. I was glad Joker won score; not a category I take much notice of, but that was an exception. I was glad Phoenix won--until his speech started, when I fled pronto. Bong Joon-Ho's speech was excellent; honestly, I liked it better than his film (which was okay, I guess). Martin and Rock were pretty good.

(His best director speech, that is--he was up there a few times.)

tonight's winner is significantly inferior to Little Women and The Irishman btw

(not to mention, say, Ash Is Purest White)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

Well, your last movie, which I liked, doesn't count

i don't understand the appeal of The Irishman at all

It was well acted and had a good story?

Had a good beat, danced to it