Oscars 2019

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.

This is the Trump era where everything up is down, so its momentum might be unstoppable now.

directed by the man who made Bill Murray's hair a wonder in Kingpin.

carrey is mainly a twitter guy now

between the announcers and the different presenters for every award, all the oscar host gets to do is waste time.

i thought glenn close was overdoing it at the GGs, but i looked it up and she's never won a movie globe or an oscar before.

between the announcers and the different presenters for every award, all the oscar host gets to do is waste time

absolutely, if this had actually been planned and written on purpose, it would be a great idea

have missed any and all recent Green Book eruptions

however, since I am banned from Jeffrey Wells' site, plz feel free to engage him

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2019/01/green-skeleton/

Hosts seemed to have had the shit kicked out of them online by everyone so you can see why it’s a poisoned chalice. Ellen was by far the best this last 10 years or so, does she not want it this time? Haven’t been keeping up with all the hoo-ha.

The only ones I've truly liked in the last 25 years have been Steve Martin and Whoopi (just the first time)

https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/the-oscars-green-book-and-bohemian-rhapsody-controversy.html

Though the answer to "How Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody Became This Year’s Oscar Villains" is "they won the top two Golden Globes."

Here is who I would like to see host The 2019 Oscars Awards:

Whoopy Goldburg, Marky Mark Wallburg, Steve Guttenburg, Steve Carrel, Michael J. Fox, Cardi B, Michael B. Jordan, regular Michael Jordan, Kate Micucci and Aubrey Plaza, John Cho and Kal Penn, Cindy Williams and Hologram Penny Marshall, Hologram Penny Marshall and Hologram Jerry Van Dyke, John Stewart and Steven Colbert and an otter, just an otter by itself, Gabriel Iglesias, Elle Fanning, Steve Aoki, chainsmoking Sean Penn connected to an I.V. that is never acknowledged or explained, Willow Smith carrying Jada Pinkett Smith on his shoulders, Hologram Patricia Schneider (ex-wife of Rob Schneider), a roomba with an otter on it, Drake and Judy Dench, Billy Bush and Fellicia Rashad, Zöe Kravitz, Billy Crystel, Martin Shorts, Will Shortz and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Lisa Desjardin and Yamiche Alcindor, Manuel Lin-Maranda, Amy Schumer riding inside of a comically large roomba, Charles Barkley, Kirk Douglas, Patti LeBelle, Skrillax, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Dwight Yoackam, Lizz Winstead, Ron Funchs, Peter O'Toole, Paula Poundstone, Jair Bolsonaro, Seth Myers.

skrillax ftw

if vulture's right in its predictions, these are gonna be the least interesting possible noms from a great year in film

https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/oscars-2019-predictions-who-will-be-nominated.html

At least they, unlike me, think Vice is getting snubbed for the big one.

Here we go. God rest our souls.

if Hawke and Schrader are dissed I can skip the show w/ enthusiasm

Did anyone predict Roma for supporting actress? If so, bravo

Nope.

Morbs, you can get enthused. Schrader did get in, though.

Fat Viggo and Fat Bale over Hawke is pretty bad.

Hawke not being nominated invalidates the entire thing for me.

Richard E Grant! Can You Ever Forgive Me? totally passed me by, anyone seen it?

Hasn't been released in the UK yet

Good for Driver, Schrader and the Coens (sneaking in to the Adapted Screenplay category on a technicality), though. Also, "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" for Best Song made me smile (though I prefer "Surly Joe").

xp ah that explains it.