Oscars 2019

I was (kind of) joking, I definitely would be stressed out spending 3+ hours in front of cameras

as a viewer I've never minded the length of it, for people on the west coast it doesn't run so late that we have to worry about getting up for work the next day

ok looking it up I'm surprised to see on wikipedia that it's run closer to 4 hours than 3 hours the last six years in a row

I hold the opposing view that people don't care about the results as much as they care how entertaining the broadcast is. People obv. remember the results more than the presenter but if there's no one to host the show that's going to make you laugh, or possibly make you laugh, then no one will care enough to watch with much enthusiasm. Watching Chris Rock presenting in the year of *oscars so white* was a treat, for example.

Also, people talk about how it's too long but the fact that it's too long is the point of it. If it was actually too long then they could just press-release the results. It would make for terrible oscar parties though.

The fact that it's too long is what gives it the little cultural currency that it has. If it lasts two hours and doesn't have a host then it is truly fucked.

I agree, yet I still hold the 2001 telecast with Steve Martin as host was the most fleet of foot.

Steve Martin was the best. I loved his opening line: "800m people around the world are watching us, and they're all thinking the same thing: we're all gay"

ha!

Ugh I don't enjoy there being only one, maybe two awards announced after one hour in.

Absolutely no one likes how long the broadcast is

I do

So does Kyle Buchanan:
https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/my-unpopular-opinion-the-oscars-should-always-be-long.html

Another out-of-nowhere nom that readers picked up on:
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah

why for the love of Douglas Fairbanks would anyone remember this fucking shit

it's a sodding assbackwards trade show

“hosting the oscar is like making love to a beautiful woman, it's something I only get to do when billy crystal was out of town.”

"...Didn't inhale?"

That is precisely the point of a loooong dining table.

So @theacademy continues to baffle in decision making. This has to be the single worst executed year for the awards body, in a year that they have a great crop of nominees! #JohnBaileyResign https://t.co/30GKSv8k0u via @variety

— Clayton Davis (@AwardsCircuit) January 24, 2019

get rid of that award completely.

but this is still bad.

no, it's a fun award that (in other years) offers an opportunity to add lively variety to the telecast

also the Welch/Rawlings cowboy song parody offered some good performance options

So long as it keeps the Oscars from adding a g-d stunt category, I'm fine with them keeping best song and the other twenty-odd categories.

yes, there should be a separate Stunt Awards, so that they can be awarded retroactively to at least 1918

i'm ok with this, altho the welch song could have been fun.

let's name the 8 awards that will be given out during commercials

best song will obv be live bcz Gaga

There can be a hundred people in the room, and 99 don’t believe in you, but one does.

- from some movie I will not be seeing

it's a thing Gaga says in every. single. interview. about her Oscar possibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxsX_30tjs

99/100 people didn't think Lady Gaga was believable.

but one did.

NARRATOR'S VOICE

bradley cooper looks successively more embarrassed every time she says it

Could care less about the telecast or results, but the revenues from the ceremony fund film preservation efforts. If the Academy wants to add stunts or best popular film or a zillion other categories, have at it.

the Green Book one is funny

www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2019s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/academy-asked-queen-open-oscars-bohemian-rhapsody-success-1202040335/

too bad, cuz i always miss the first 5 minutes

Struggling to understand how Kevin Hart is irreplaceable tbh

Struggling to understand how AMPAS hasn't proactively rescinded all nominations that aren't Black Panther, A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody tbh

And Green Book, shurely?

Nah, that movie didn't make $500 million at the box office which will surely translate to a total ratings rebound.

the show is gonna open with viggo mortensen doing both parts of the green acres theme song

"Viggo, what's your favorite word?"

they are predictin'

https://www.slantmagazine.com/category/awards/

The Two Moods pic.twitter.com/RdmKwB6i47

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) February 5, 2019

Average Academy voter: https://www.thedailybeast.com/anonymous-oscar-voters-blasts-smear-campaigns-against-green-book-and-bohemian-rhapsody

Best Director. In that category, will the winner be Alfonso Cuaron for Roma?

I do not like Roma. I don’t hate it. It’s fine. I just don’t understand the fuss. Some of his films are my favorites of all time, but not this one. I’m going with Peter Farrelly for Green Book.

But it’ll have to be a write-in. He wasn’t nominated.

Oh!

Maybe they didn’t transcend the controversy?

Then Adam McKay for Vice.

Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me? I’ve been a fan of him for years. His performance was such a departure from what I’ve seen him do.

I thought he always played messy gays.

I take it that in Musto's memory, Withnail and Hudson Hawk are the same movie, and he's not seen REG in anything else since.

The queen had all her pet rabbits, but I bet Glenn Close could boil them in no time.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tkEBXiVB--/dbrp9slgdhhvbznzdz27.jpg

Is it weird that for BlacKkKlansman, Adam Driver is nominated (for supporting), but not John David Washington (for lead)?

I didn’t think Denzel Washington’s son deserved to be nominated. He was fine, but not over-the-top spectacular. The thing that made that film work on a bipartisan level was Adam Driver, so I’m not disappointed that he got nominated. Is it problematic that there’s only two supporting nominees, Mahershala Ali (Green Book) and Regina King, as black actors nominated? It could be. We’re always tending to be portrayed as a bunch of racist white people by our own Academy, so the fact that BlacKkKlansman and Black Panther were nominated for Best Picture will subdue that.

Yeah, I’m skipping the show this year.