Oscars 2019

The King's Speech and A Star is Born are C movies, mundanities. We have to be like Minos in Inferno, wrapping our tails around our bodies judging which circle in hell to cast these movies.

Argo wasn't terribly offensive, by virtue of not trying to be terribly important, unlike most of the rest of those

the shape of water was good. burn the rest

Argo made the CIA heroic and Ben Affleck into a Serious Director. That's important.

yeah i bet the hostages loved that shit

Jimmy Carter was all "lol, that didnt happen"

what 1969-relevant elders can they get to present Best Picture? Hoffman and Voight are kinda pariahs... Redford and Katharine Ross?

Birdman soundtrack was smoking.

XP Peter Fonda & Jack

...riding onstage on a chopper.

Argo is by far the worst of the movies in that list you are crazy

does Nicholson still go out? haven't seen him since that last Jim Brooks movie.

He was gonna be in the Toni Erdmann remake.

not if there's a god

the likelihood of Bohemian Rhapsody being in the BP line-up

wait...waht

There were only 3 maybe 4 non-franchise hits this whole year. You better believe the Oscars are going to try to jam as many as possible in the top category.

Bohemian and Crazy Rich Asians could complete their transformation into the People's Choice Awards.

Or undo their transformation into the Indie Spirit Awards.

Full list of eligible films: https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_reminder_list.pdf

the Venom campaign starts now

really was hoping for some Welles action, but then again no eligibility for the Fassbinder miniseries

d'souza robbed

Robin Hood is eligible. 24 Frames is not.

Glad to see Madeline's Madeline still in the running. Fingers crossed!

not too late for Zamarama

Or for 12 Strong Bing Bong

lol, there is still no host?

Apparently they couldn't find anyone else and are now begging Kevin Hart to reconsider?

Given this will clearly be the last Oscars ever, what a way to go out.

what, is sea level rise affecting California too?

Oscar will be exposed as a serial flasher

so 'no host' is the plan, it seems

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscars-no-host-2019-kevin-hart-1203103010/

Good idea tbh, if only because it might tighten things up

they had 'rotating hosts' one year, don't think it went over that well

Apparently they did it all the time in the '70s.

i didn't watch til '76, but earlier in the decade, yeah probably.

then Carson did it for awhile when Bob Hope got too old.

Maybe the one your thinking of was the Gandhi ceremony that had Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau?

sounds like it! i thought Chevy Chase was involved in one. I remember him starting with "Good evening, Hollywood phonies."

Liza as host THIS year would be unimaginably entertaining. Or, just unimaginable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies

Chevy did the Last Emperor one.

man, Chevy hosted solo in '88! I definitely don't recall that. xp

also, Whoopi Goldberg's ran over FOUR hours. And seemed longer.

Those ceremonies had a talent for length, like Prince.

The Chevy-Goldie-Paul Hogan one I was thinking of. Def didn't realize Robert Shaw parlayed playing Captain Quint into a co-hosting role.

That's a crazy ratings drop from 2014 to 2018.

One that I think you can find across the board with network TV shows.

Although, maybe not ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings

they really couldn't find a funny hollywood-adjacent person to host the show? very weird.

as someone pointed out, Jim Carrey was by far the funniest person on the GGs

too unpredictable though, and more a TV guy now

after his run as an ensemble player on a TV show c. 1990-93, he did 27 movies, then did one TV lead in 2018. not sure he's fully outweighed the last 25 years by doing a show that 166,000 people watched.

Green Book has gone, in three days, from recrudescent Oscar frontrunner to the movie written by the guy who tweeted at Trump about personally witnessing Muslims dancing in the street on 9/11, directed by the guy fond of flashing his penis to co-workers as a "joke." I'm fully entertained.