Oscars 2018

ah, the fish-fucking movie

Haven’t seen it but I called it

First sci-fi Best Picture winner?

my whole FB feed full of theatre kids is whining about the best song winner not being the Greatest Showman song. *updates FB purity*

Right choice imo

Not sure it's a sci fi tbh

Never in my drunkest fantasies have I ever thought Warren Betty was hot. Even when he was a young man I couldn't imagine him working up energy to make love to anything except his ego.

Beatty is purdy in Splendor in the Grass.

deer scene was just a re-run of this

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

xps u just made Alfred splutter in the glass

^Alfred Soto's sin

I'm surprised Lady Bird got the full snub.

Not snubbed from my heart

JERRY LEWIS WON THE IN MEMORIAM, CALLED IT

HAIL JERRY, KING OF THE DEAD

I like vedder a lot tbh, also him doing the in memoriam is extra poignant since most of his vocalist peers are dead now

― Simon H., Sunday, March 4, 2018 9:15 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, good point. i thought he nailed the performance.

My kids listen to this Greatest showman millennial whoop shit all the time. It's like an Christian pop.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, March 4, 2018 8:52 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah yep. my kids cant get enough.

so sad. imagine Agnes's acceptance speech

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, March 4, 2018

uhhh, I'm pretty sure I posted her speech/dance with Jolie when she accepted her special award at the Governors Ball? in November?

Note to Wesley Morris: Kubrick won an Oscar for 2001's special effects (shared with Douglas Trumbull I think).

here you go jed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5vFXOqNCso

so i think the BP winner turned out to be the most safely, inoffensively well-liked film?

sorry, the revolution has not yet come

(ok, prob unfair if you consider the Brit hurrah pair well-liked)

that's so great but we were talking about tonight not that thing in november

i honestly cried when i watched it.

The fish sex fantasy

Cmon morbs try less hard or try harder the current level is pish

safer than the mushroom soup S&M comedy

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

Fucking Churchill, wtf's up with you Americans? Churchill and the fucking Beatles, just have them, we don't want them.

safer than the mushroom soup S&M comedy

Fucking Churchill, wtf's up with you Americans? Churchill and the fucking Beatles, just have them, we don't want them.

considered the possibility of that for just long enough to raise my blood pressure a couple of points

I looked up "Inclusion Rider"--Steppenwolf B-side from '68. I'm not big on the rah-rah, so I had to flee from Frances McDormand.

the entire thing was a liberal issue checklist for the Whole Foods demo

Tom D, at least Judi Dench wasn't even nominated this time

Tomboto, go see Phantom Thread and then we can podcast about it

I only got 20/24 correct so I got no prizes in the online contest I co-won last year (missed both Blade Runner awards). I did beat the Slant guys at least (sorry, honeybunch).

Not a lot of people know this but A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS was the first Best Picture winner to feature fish fucking

— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) March 5, 2018

I was watching on dvr on a slight delay and had to fast forward through that greatest showman song it was so fucking irritating. I know we all like to make fun of the sufjan but that was a nice (and short performance) and I liked seeing Annie Clark and Chris Thile up there. Other performances were all pretty great too.

Chris Thile is a miracle of a musician tbh

It was a big mistake not having the Showman singer wearing her bearded-lady makeup/costume

"Dear Basketball was terrible of course it won"

I'm shocked they gave an oscar to someone widely assumed to be a rapist this year.

and no one booed him

You're shocked that Angelenos voted for a Laker?

I'm shocked they did with everything else going on, yes. slightly less shocked that they voted for Oldman considering his reputation as well but maybe they feel taht's far enough in the past.

i'm really glad Alison Janney won. I thought she was amazing in I Tonya (so was Margot Robbie actually).

Janney's pause, point, glance into the camera and then "I did it all on my own!" before then composing herself and thanking a ton of people was officially A Great Moment.

or just a good joke.

For a few seconds this morning I forgot what won Best Picture.

i never saw what everyone else saw in janney's performance - seemed like a very very good impression or caricature but not a ton of notes to play. my pick was metcalf followed by manville, but i also haven't seen mudbound.

I don't mind performers doing goon show imitations of people but Janney did nothing with the already pallid script.

surely making dubious dull decisions is the point of the Oscars?

Roger Deakins finally wins his Oscar for Air America!

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) March 5, 2018

btw: Lesley Manville is in the Gary Oldman Ex-Wives Club, along with Uma Thurman. Neither of them are the one he allegedly hit in the face with a phone (when phones were heavy).

Beatty fish fuck!

This is a pretty good (pre-show) rundown of the contenders by A.S. Hamrah, tho I don't share all the brickbats or praise:

Allison Janney goes beyond simple ludicrousness. Her performance, equipped with shoulder parrot and emphysema hose, exhales malice in an anti-Lady Bird evocation of working-class motherhood....

Call Me by Your Name’s strength is that it really does seem like the character played by Timothée Chalamet made the film himself. Who else but an actual actor-director would end his film by staring tearfully into a fireplace in winter because he’s realized he will always be separate from other human beings, even though he spent last summer having sex in Lombardy with two kind and very attractive people (Armie Hammer and Esther Garrel)? The first Sufjan Stevens song that interrupts the movie so we can concentrate on nature for a few minutes also indicates the hand of Chalamet’s Elio at work, as he remembers how beautiful it was and how nothing hurt, before he found out on that last trip that Hammer’s Oliver was going to start dancing in public to “Love My Way” again.

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/sanctuaries-of-trust-and-caring/

haha oh lord

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/05/frances-mcdormand-oscar-stolen-arrest