I honestly enjoyed this edition of the Oscars. It seemed to move by fairly quickly and the lack of a host made it more livelier. Of course the conclusion was a huge sigh but we'll get to that disappointment in a bit.
13-11 in my predictions. I really blew it. I should have gone with the predictable or at least have some more love for Black Panther.
Not much to say about the red carpet pre-show besides I heart Maria Menounos, Billy Porter and his lovely/bizarre tuxedo bathrobe jacket and detachable giant gown, Glenn Close talking about her 42 pound golden dress and cape, and Ryan Seacrest sadly popping in the last 30 minutes.
Adam Lambert and Queen kicked things off. This the Oscars, right? You sure it's not the Grammys? They were fine but they did the classic rock radio decision of playing "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" back to back. Maybe if they performed the songs while the director cut to some footage of last year's films, we would have a proper movie awards show.
The opening year-end montage featured such classics as Tag, A Wrinkle In Time, I Feel Pretty, Stan & Ollie and Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Also boo on using Won't You Be My Neighbor? as the wraparound soundtrack considering the massive snub you gave it, Academy.
I was kinda digging the goofy set. Giant obtrusive waves in the foreground and a bunch of galaxy swirls across the backdrop and floor.
Oh look everyone, three talented comedians that should have been the hosts in the first place. Oh but there are all women and the Academy can't really put their trust in them.
Those were some bright ass red envelopes, brighter than the bizarre plastic top thingy Rachel Weisz was wearing.
"God is good, all the time." Great job Regina King.
Dear lord, I got quickly sick of the plugging of the official Oscar online prediction game during the pre-show but was even more annoyed whenever the banner for it popped up during right before the announcement of the nominees for many of the major awards.
Tom Morello?! From Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave to being the presenter for Vice.
My god, the total cringe during the acceptance speech for Best Makeup. You're not helping the case for casting this award to commercials, you three nitwits!
MVP of the night: Melissa McCarthy's bunny hand puppet. Sam Rockwell couldn't handle how funny that was during Best Costume Design.
Alright Ruth E. Carter! Kicking ass, taking names, and making history as the first black winner.
And Black Panther's streak continues by nabbing Best Production Design. The Academy normally hates awarding works of fantasy in the tech categories but not this year it seems. Also, what really good heartfelt speech by Hannah Beachler.
Maybe I've been spoiled by Eurovision and the currently ongoing National Finals but I really detested the number for "I'll Fight". It was cut way short, Jennifer Hudson was often off-key, and it was a forgettable song in general. What a horrible nominee.
Serena Williams really missed the point of the recent remake of A Star Is Born. Bradley Cooper was the main focus, especially towards the second of the film.
Please tell Bohemian Rhapsody doesn't win Best Picture after picking up both sound awards. Seriously, over Roma?
Oh shit, Roma is so not winning Best Picture. The Best Foreign Language Film Curse might be too strong to overcome.
Dear me, Keegan Michael-Key must have had a lot of liquid courage to do that Mary Poppins stunt. Did you see how fast he flew down on those wires?!
OH NO, Best editing for Bohemian Rhapsody! I guess the Academy voters did see that video tweet showing off how bad the editing was in that film.
Of course Ali won. Love his hat though.
You get Laura Dern to come in and you have her kill air time by pushing the long-developed Academy Museum. For shame.
Hell yeah Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse! Sadly, that fifth guy didn't get to talk, which really sucked. ABC needed more time for Kacey Musgraves to come out.
Eh, that dolly shot during the Ballad of Buster Scruggs performance.
People talking about the teaser trailer for The Irishman. You know, that absolutely nothing teaser that was practically pure black screen.
Stop screaming Dana Carvey! Oh fantastic, a Wayne's World routine in 2019 which of course fell flat with the audience. Myers and Carvey didn't even dress up for the part, those lazy middle-aged bums!
So happy for Bao and the win going to two female animated directors.
I just had to go with the depressing one for Best Documentary Short Subject. An absolutely killer opening line for the acceptance speech that will make the montages for years to come. Could have done without the screaming, considering what we just had to sit through, but the adrenaline was pumping too much for those excited filmmakers.
Had absolutely no idea who the fat guy was with Diego Luna when presenting Roma. My mom had to inform me that he's a famous chef. Seriously, what television audience member wanted to watch the Oscars just to see that guy?
Very happy with First Man earning Best Visual Effects. Very understated and not bombastic and laughable like in the standard Hollywood blockbusters.
Wow, what an intro for "Shallow". And holy shit, what a phenomenal performance, all done in one shot. Congrats Oscar cameraman and director.
I freaking knew it. Don't go with thrillers for Best Live Action Short.
Great, an Anti-Muslim guy (who I just learned also co-wrote the legendarily awful Deadfall) and Peter freakin' Farrelly get an Oscar over Schrader. And oh goody, Farrelly is going crazy again, trying to talk even more after having the mic cut.
Loved Samuel L. Jackson being the hype man for Lee. That big yelp and hug made it even better.
Very rambling but Spike Lee's speech had a good message and was long deserved.
Very glad with the score, though I've lately really fallen for If Beale Street Could Talk. Too obvious with song.
Stanley Donen got Farina'd during In Memoriam but that was to be expected. But to snub out Dick Miller, R. Lee Ermey, Carol Channing, Sondra Locke, Aretha Franklin, and John Mahoney? What the hell? Also, shout out to We Hate Movies who called the shot that Verne Troyer was definitely going to be left out.
Barbra for BlacKkKlansman?! Oh, it's because of some twitter exchange that I never knew about.
Happy for Rami Malek snatching up Best Actor but dear lord, the producers should have picked a different clip. Showing off that he lip-synched didn't help the case of him winning tonight.
Did they have Senator John Lewis out to present for Selma back in 2015? Because him coming out to present for Green Book really sucks despite what he had to say about the film.
I told you, told you, told you. Always bet on Colman. Her overjoyed and jumbled acceptance speech was absolutely delightful. If it wasn't for her, The Favourite was almost shut out.
It looked like Guillermo del Toro wanted to run away with Alfonso Cuarón's Best Director Oscar.
Ah fuck. Really, Green Book for Best Picture? Driving Ms. Daisy winning the same award was a smear to the Oscars and now thirty years later a redux of it wins the top prize. Oh great, even more Farrelly, who immediately pushes how it was all thanks to Viggo.
I did perk back up a bit with Julia Roberts snarky send-off.
A fun show but oh boy the think pieces that will be coming for the next couple of weeks.
