95th Annual Academy Awards

Missed the ceremony on my flight home from Spring Break, but caught up on it afterwards. Other than some cringey moments from Kimmel and the embarrassing omissions in the In Memorandum segment, this was one of the best produced shows in a while. JLC winning was absurd and I'm very annoyed that McDonagh lost Original Screenplay, but otherwise I'm fairly satisfied with the results.

 

The only true robbery was The Batman’s hair and make-up loss. I’ll simply never recover.

 

Honestly I'm quite happy with all the winners. Not just all the EEAAO peeps and Fraser, but I thought the awards that All Quiet on the Western Front and Women Talking won were well-deserved too. Well, if The Batman had rightfully been nominated for cinematography and score, I would've given those to it easily, but of the ones actually nominated, I think All Quiet deserved 'em. Only things I'd change would be to give JLC's Oscar to Hsu, the hair & make-up to The Batman, and maybe original screenplay to Banshees. But all-around a pretty well-chosen set of winners this year, imo. Much better than any of the last few years I can recall.

 

They definitely fell victim to "Bigger Is Better" mentality that is really common with BTL categories once everyone is voting on them. The massive prosthetics heaped on Fraser for 'The Whale' were more dramatic than the less extreme but better work done to turn Farrell into The Penguin (along with the other great, traditional work in The Batman) so it gets the most votes. A shame, but I saw it coming a mile away.

 

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Best move they made. Those bits are always cringe and you can tell the audience there doesn’t know how to react.

 

I mean I kinda get what he's saying, but of course it's articulated in such a **** way.

 

Anytime anyone uses the word “woke” to make an argument, I immediately think they are either an a-hole, dumba—, or both.

 

I'm just gonna point out that international/globalism is usually a dog whistle for something else...

 

And you would be right on both fronts, there is always a much better way of communicating than using that.

 

Someone needs to lock the dude out of his account before he transforms his legacy from "Screenwriting Legend" to "Bigoted Facebook Crank." Like... the fact that he seemingly considers EEAAO to be a "foreign" movie is a BIG yikes.

 

Woke has come to mean "recognizing the existence of people other than straight white males".

 

Hard to say if people tuned in to see another slap like event. But I do think nominating crowd pleasers like Top Gun and Avatar helped. Plus you have older people like me who wanted to see Ke and Brendan win.