Oscars 2020

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

Lost almost every bet I made and other than *********** I feel like Howard R rn

Such an awesome BD speech by Bong, incredible that Parasite won BP

A great year for movies, no?

Jojo Rabbit winning anything let alone SCREENPLAY is infuriating, that's when I stopped watching. I was lucky enough to go downstairs right before BD and BP were announced.

Greta G should've been nominated for BD

i’ve watched it 600 times pic.twitter.com/evQ4waw1H1

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) February 10, 2020

i didnt like the #MilkLecture ie Joaquin’s speech but i forgave him when he choked up quoting River <3

kinda unhappy with him after learning about his flippant behavior regarding respecting fight choreography

thats so beautiful

xxp

Link on the fight choreography story?

here: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/joaquin-phoenix-stunt-improvisation-made-joker-all-the-more-dangerous

the article itself curiously presents it as a virtue, but my local fight choreographer friend was livid when he read this.

opposing view: https://allagesofgeek.com/this-just-in/joaquin-phoenixs-unpredictable-fighting-improv-is-literally-a-danger-to-everyone-on-set/

sorry for derail!

no, that's helpful. I did two courses of stage combat in undergrad and saw at least one guy get his bell rung onstage when somebody thought "being in the moment" was cool. It's obviously not. If that extra were an inseminated cow, I'm sure he would have been much more respectful.

lol re: cow.

yeah I don't have a ton of stage combat experience but we did a "Rube Goldberg"-esque swordfight in my last production where there were lots of chain reactions and we were all freaked out about people missing their marks cos many of us were new to combat.

had someone decided to improv I'd have peaced, lol. perhaps figuratively and literally.

I liked phoenix's speech

People are saying this is all mea culpa because they didn’t give it to Roma last year.

People will say lots of things to undermine achievements.

Especially if the winner is part of a group they don’t care about.