Oscars 2021

i'd say that they're the favorites in the supporting actor category, but raci could solidify support and win if there's vote-splitting.

i personally think stanfield was fine, but he's been much better in other things. kaluuya was a force of nature.

borat, ma rainey, and judas are the only movies nommed in the big 6 that i've seen

I know they really want to give Boseman the best actor Oscar, and I'm OK with that but tbh his role could just as easily have been classified as supporting.

he's the main driver of the plot and the emotion, i'd say he's definitely a lead. also learned recently that his role was originally played on stage by charles s. dutton

*idk why i wrote emotion when i meant "conflict" but whatever

I guess Stanfield was *submitted* by the studio as a lead, but the academy voted to nominate him as supporting?

So who makes these calls? The voting members of the acting branch, whose votes determine the nominees, regardless of studio campaigns or critics’ awards.

According to academy rules, “A performance by an actor or actress in any role shall be eligible for nomination either for the leading role or supporting role categories ... The determination as to whether a role is a leading or supporting role shall be made individually by members of the branch at the time of balloting.”

Correct.

Just to be clear, WB did not campaign #JudasAndTheBlackMessiah as a leadless movie. Voters who believed that Stanfield was supporting were simply plentiful enough for him to make the category. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/zOKFyQkPqd

— Myles McNutt (@Memles) March 15, 2021

good to know. would've been a bummer for stanfield to miss out due to people voting for him in different categories.

Lakeith is obviously the lead. Kaluuya would be fine to class as co-lead or supporting.

― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, March 15, 2021 1:58 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also correct. I saw a breakdown of screen time, and Stanfield has just slightly more (like 49 minutes vs. 46 minutes), but he's also the audience surrogate, which makes him more of a lead.

LaKeith Stanfield has shared his reaction to being Oscar-nominated in Best Supporting Actor for JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH pic.twitter.com/9TQFx17gkW

— Isaac Feldberg (@isaacfeldberg) March 16, 2021

Love that guy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/22/the-most-awkward-oscars-moments-ranked

I've no recollection of this

"Possibly the least showy moment on this list, but easily the most excruciating. The Vice hair and makeup team didn’t seem to know each other when they arrived onstage to collect their award. One of them started a speech, then stopped as his colleague unfurled her own speech. She ordered him to read it. He refused. She started reading it. A third winner, holding her own speech, haltingly joined in. They started to get played off, but ploughed on nonetheless. As they collectively fumbled to decode some handwriting on one of the now several speeches, the camera cut away. They kept going. The stage lights switched off."

Without looking at the list, curious if they included the Hearts and Minds acceptance speech in '75 or whenever. Will check the link.

They didn’t, too niche i expect.

They don't have Benigni climbing over people or the lady from Once getting cut off either.

Oh, and "Uma...Oprah"!

and not a single one of these :(

https://clickhole.com/the-best-speeches-from-last-night-s-oscars-1825120978/

There's nothing embarrassing about that Jack Palance acceptance, it's great

They didn’t, too niche i expect.

Faulty memory. I looked at the clip, and not nearly as incendiary as my 45-year-old memory of it. I thought there was loud booing, like with Michael Moore. Not at all; the crowd sounds quite on their side. I think, later, there may have been someone speak disparagingly from the stage about Schneider--Bob Hope or John Wayne?--but I'm not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMR1mVGbfUk

legit stream

https://ustvgo.tv/abc-live-streaming-free/

Canned laughter?? taking a cue from the Brits there.

Isn't best supporting actor usually first?

this was always going to be awkward and boring but they've really outdone themselves!

That 'talking to the nominees from the stage' thing sucked ten years ago, God knows who thought they should revive it.

Those introductions from Laura Dern to the supporting actors! Is that what you are referring to? Every acceptance speech other than Zhao's has been ridiculously long too.

Sorry, I'm only half watching but thanks for the link-up, piscesx.

I liked that they presented the best director award so close to the beginning, Chloe Zhao totally deserved it and she gave an admirably short acceptance speech

i started this half and hour or so late so i could ffwd through commercials and endless sanctimony and boring shit i'm already out of buffer

lol

Reece never ages, it's incredible.

Denzel Washington and Laura Dern don't either.

Laura looked gorgeous. Have we had best supporting actress?

i don't think so

Woah that Octopus film looks great. That's a sentence i never thought i'd write.

xp No Supporting Actress yet.

If Glenn Close doesn't win she makes history as the most nominated actor *ever* to not win.

Peter O'Toole will join her for a drink.

re Octopus it's nice, I liked it a lot and there is a lot of beautiful underwater photography but the anthropomorphizing is kind over the top

they should let youn yuh-jong do the rest of the speeches

Love that Harrison Ford read the blade runner notes

Anyone else think Sound of Metal will win best picture?

Blade runner was one of the first movies where ford didn't even try to act and just read off his lines. It needed different cuts to work around his shit performance.

Didn't need a speech about tolerance from the gay homophobe. Especially not one decrying intolerance towards cops.

Glenn Close's monologue on "Da Butt" is her most moving screen performance since 1988.

Just imagine, if we hadn't had the Questlove music quiz come of these dead people may have got more than a fraction of a second of commemoration. Some of them disappeared so fast you didn't have the chance to read the name.

what? best picture now?

who's the 'gay homophobe'?

Tyler Perry, allegedly.

this is a fucking mess of a production. the sound is terrible. no clips? what was that ten minute torturous guess if the song won an oscar game? Questlove's DJing is bad, bad, bad, utterly context-free songs from 'movies' disconnected from everything...

in memorium rushed through with an upbeat stevie wonder song, with only Boseman and Connery getting more than a fraction of a second

xp ah gotcha.

christ this is the most painful idea.. kill it with fire.