Unlike most critics online, I was generally fine with the Oscars broadcast. It wasn't as good as last year's and had some real duds but whatever, history has been made, memes have been created, and I'm happy with the ending.
13-11 again! I really blew it. Never expected their to be so much sharing all around.
First up we have the red carpet pre-show. Usual fluff but there were some moments.
I like Billy Porter but the greatness of his dress didn't translate to his interviewing skills. He stumbled a lot and called Michael Strahan, "Michael Strahorn".'
Billie Eilish is here. Really? What for? It was real cool though that she dropped that The Babadook and We Need To Talk About Kevin as films she loved while growing up.
Dear lord, Kirsten Wiig's dress. A red downward arrow mixed with a duster and a lasagna noodle.
Oh man, the look on the face of the female interviewer when while chatting with Brad Pitt she inadvertently said that Natural Born Killers is one of the best films of all time. Cringe at its best.
Oh great, Seacrest is back. Nice to show off the huge cue cards he's reading off from.
The show kicks off. Welcome everybody to this celebration of film. Here's a performance of a television show theme song!
I love Janelle Monáe but that opening was a bit of a mess. The trouble with he blouse button. The failed sweater zip up. The backup dancers largely dressed up as characters from royally snubbed movies (Midsommar, Us, Dolemite Is My Name). The not so hot call and response. Almost a flashback to the infamous Rob Lowe/Snow White duet.
The pure silence when Steve Martin and Chris Rock shouted out Jeff Bezos. The pompous billionaire then proceeded to not be amused at the jokes at his expense.
I was really enjoying the montages before every major acting category. Instead of the usual Oscar clip, you got to see more of why they were nominated. The Tony Awards-like reading afterwards of the nominees was clever.
Brad Pitt finally wins an acting Oscar. Nice job jabbing at the losers in Washington at the start and finishing his speech with a nice reflection of his journey and giving respect to stunt people.
Freaking Toy Story 4! Yeah, it was my #12 Best Film of 2019 but the fact that it won when Klaus was coming into the evening as the heavy favorite, with I Lost My Body being a potential dark horse, harshed my buzz.
At least I got Hair Love. And there's the first shoutout to Kobe Bryant.
I really liked the package of "Into The Unknown", from Josh Gad's hilarious intro to the decision to feature the Elsas from around the world. Still not hot at all for that song though.
Some nice funny banter between Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves. And wow, Bong Joon-ho getting Best Screenplay!
Oh my god, Timothée Chalamet. What is up with that jumpsuit?!
Happy for Taika Waititi, even though I wasn't the biggest fan of Jojo Rabbit. At least his script is way better than the book in some key areas.
Time moved slow with Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig stalling with an unfunny routine on acting. Billie Eilish is utterly confused at this shit. The singing mashup was good.
Of course the period piece with all of the fancy dresses would win Best Costume Design. Why did I second guess it?!
Okay, just right into the song for Breakthrough. So weird and so not like "Shallow".
What's with all of these odd introductions by presenters to other presenters?
Hah, a bunch of snubs in the Best Documentary montage. Seriously the Academy, you were apparently too good for Won't You Be My Neighbor? and now you want to hail it?
Want to win Best Documentary Short? Have a great eye-catching title. Tony Hawk was invited to the Oscars. I'm guessing he was a producer of the short? (Doesn't seem to be the case!)
Very touching speech by Laura Dern, giving a solid shout out to her acting parents. Congrats on the special birthday prize!
Lin-Manuel Miranda literally gave a shout out to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles song!
This song montage is amateurish YouTube crap. Why is it taking up precious air time?
Oh no. Really, Eminem?! He didn't even go to the Oscars when "Lose Yourself" won!
The Academy really needed to push the Mom's Spaghetti meme to get those young folks tuning into a non-advertised surprise performance.
Billie Eilish, bless her, is not having it. Idina Menzel doesn't know what to think about it. Scorsese is so tired.
A standing O?!! He barely sang it all and the rest was largely bleeped out!
Great, now people will have their brief speeches cut down even further.
Ford v Ferrari over 1917 in Best Sound Editing. Must have been those squeaky tires.
1917 gets Best Sound Mixing. One of the absolute best things about that movie.
Now a weird throw to Randy Newman. The large stage swallowed him up and the plain song lost all of its luster once removed from its movie. Yeah, it will not win.
This Oscar recap rapper, who I later found out is Utkarsh Ambudkar, is far and away better than Eminem tonight.
The editing was good in Ford v Ferrari but not that good.
The Academy needs to shill the hell out of there new museum so they got Tom Hanks to do it. We have an opening date (Dec 14). Nick shout out to Kirk Douglas at the end.
Cynthia Erivo certainly has the power but "Stand Up" is just another uplifter.
Of course newly Razzie nominated James Corden and Rebel Wilson are here to mock Cats and its now infamous visual effects. Wait what, 1917 was the best visual effects of the year?!
Geez, major spoilers for 1917 in Best Makeup. It stinks that the Bombshell didn't get to finish their speech. Eminem was just too important.
Loving that foreign language film montage. Loving even more with Parasite winning.
Elton John was far better than every one else. Nice for him to show up and jazz up the proceedings.
I'm getting sick of the same commercials airing constantly. "For Life", more like three seasons than cancellation at best. Stupid meme M&Ms. Stupid Qibi, the streaming service no one will ever remember fondly.
Damn, no David Lynch sitting in the audience. Not even for Laura Dern's likely win tonight, Davey?
Wow, that's one cool female conductor. Awesome outfit.
Hildur Guðnadóttir wins, thus concluding this tribute to women by Gal Gadot, Brie Larson, and Sigourney Weaver. Great speech by her about women hearing the music within them.
2nd Oscar for Elton. Bernie Taupin finally gets some gold love. "Wow, this didn't suck", indeed. Too bad Randy Newman can't say the same after seeing his two chances wiped out in a row.
Spike Lee with the Kobe Bryant tribute suit. I thought he was a diehard Knicks fan?
Holy crap, what an upset in Best Director. Bong Joon-ho gave some nice love to Scorsese and Tarantino for their work and appreciation.
Oh, so that's why Billie Eilish is here. Please Oscar producers to remember to cut out the crowd mic.
Who got Farina'd in the "In Memoriam"? Luke Perry, Sid Haig, Tim Conway, and Ron Leibman to name a few.
Oh no, here comes Joaquin, primed and ready to blow.
... Okay that was something. Sad to see that he's still affected by River's untimely death.
Renée got it. Oh phooey. Now she's competing with Joaquin on who can have the most rambling speech of the night.
I just noticed that they cut out the Best Picture clips throughout the evening. Wise decision.
Jane Fonda looking real good.
Oh, wow wow wow wow! I'm utterly ecstatic! Parasite makes history! Justice for Roma!
A weird last note with the producers cutting the lights only to bring them back due to the crowd only to then cut them when there was an opening.
The Irishman was completely shut out. Good, says the man who still hasn't watched it.
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