Oscars 2021

If Glenn Close doesn't win she makes history as the most nominated actor *ever* to not win.

Peter O'Toole will join her for a drink.

re Octopus it's nice, I liked it a lot and there is a lot of beautiful underwater photography but the anthropomorphizing is kind over the top

they should let youn yuh-jong do the rest of the speeches

Love that Harrison Ford read the blade runner notes

Anyone else think Sound of Metal will win best picture?

Blade runner was one of the first movies where ford didn't even try to act and just read off his lines. It needed different cuts to work around his shit performance.

Didn't need a speech about tolerance from the gay homophobe. Especially not one decrying intolerance towards cops.

Glenn Close's monologue on "Da Butt" is her most moving screen performance since 1988.

Just imagine, if we hadn't had the Questlove music quiz come of these dead people may have got more than a fraction of a second of commemoration. Some of them disappeared so fast you didn't have the chance to read the name.

what? best picture now?

who's the 'gay homophobe'?

Tyler Perry, allegedly.

this is a fucking mess of a production. the sound is terrible. no clips? what was that ten minute torturous guess if the song won an oscar game? Questlove's DJing is bad, bad, bad, utterly context-free songs from 'movies' disconnected from everything...

in memorium rushed through with an upbeat stevie wonder song, with only Boseman and Connery getting more than a fraction of a second

xp ah gotcha.

christ this is the most painful idea.. kill it with fire.

this is a fucking mess of a production. the sound is terrible. no clips? what was that ten minute torturous guess if the song won an oscar game? Questlove's DJing is bad, bad, bad, utterly context-free songs from 'movies' disconnected from everything...

― akm, Sunday, April 25, 2021 11:11 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

every year prior to this had at least 3 extended bits that were worse than the song trivia

oof that's an upset! Hopkins not even there!?

not there, thanks, goodnight, the end.

lol

Glen Close dropping knowledge about da butt was the highlight of the show, fuiud

they ended it with actress and actor just because they thought boseman was a lock. good moment nonetheless.

So...Boseman doesn't get the tribute he deserves, Hopkins doesn't get the kudos that courtesy demands, and the ceremony just wilts

pitiful. apparently steven soderbergh was the mastermind behind this.

thought the surprises in best actress and best actor at the end were worth hsnging around for though. and Frances McDormands' howl. don't remember a year like this

boseman is dead, hopkins wasn't interested in attending, and the voters voted. having it last was a mistake but otherwise what are you gonna do.

i think soderbergh made a valiant attempt to sort of human scale the ceremony and i certainly didn't miss the endless clips, prerecorded bits, comedians, and song performances. i think he wanted to make it about people talking about movies, and have the presenters be in dialog with the nominees in some capacity. i'm not going to tell you it worked but at the same time this show is subjected to withering criticism every single year and i don't have the slightest idea what people actually want it to be.

idk the specific reasons Hopkins chose not to attend but an 83y/o choosing not to attend a 4hr indoor event with hundreds of maskless attendees & crew is not unreasonable imo. Not his fault he actually won.

he's vaccinated and traveling the world; currently visiting his childhood home in wales

Those introductions from Laura Dern to the supporting actors!

no clips

The reasoning of "weird year, we all related to movies differently, let's tell you how moviemakers relate to movies with actual personal anecdotes" was a good move. it is a weird year! (TWO years!) clips rarely tell you jack shit and are especially selected by a tone-deaf Oscar computer that's been left on too long!

Oscar trivia game was a GREAT idea, terribly executed (except for Close) (#justice4DaButt)

Yeah I don’t see how this was a debacle. No songs, no pointless bullshit, only one brief comedy bit, felt very lean and mean to me, wouldn’t mind if it was like this every year.

xp cad otm

I don't have a problem with Hopkins winning tbh; it was an unusually strong category, with Oldman the only bleh nominee.

Milking Boseman for ratings, though.

Shoulda nominated Delroy.

as a casual Oscar watcher (i see almost no movies and don't care who wins, etc.) this show was a major drag. missed the jokes, song performances and *especially* the movie clips badly. way too much talking. terribly solemn and boring.

glad they jettisoned the songs but I missed the movie clips, they are like catnip to me

I only watched the second half but I thought it was decent. The lines they gave the presenters were the best ever. I'm generally fine with the songs but it's OK to go without for a year. "No montages" should be the standard from now on.

i just watched minari instead, which was good but lacked some resonance and depth i thought. but still well written/directed/acted!

I see from reports that all of the songs were shown before the main show started.

as a casual Oscar watcher (i see almost no movies and don't care who wins, etc.) this show was a major drag. missed the jokes, song performances and *especially* the movie clips badly.

I do NOT watch movies and have no interest in them. I am INFURIATED that I have not seen ten 19-second excerpts of some movies from last year, and have no way of doing so.

way too much talking. terribly solemn and boring.

It absolutely sucks that this year's ceremony did not involve ramming thousands of people shoulder-to-shoulder, having strangers hug each other, and making people sing directly into each other's faces. I have not watched and TV or read any news since last year's Oscars.

(I do think the songs should have been in as pre-records.)

I have not watched the majority of these movies but I’m shocked to have learned the Oscars messed up this year!

just wanted to know how mad I should be about best original screenplay...it worked! I'm mad

Didn't watch, but apparently Adam Schlesinger was skipped over in the memorial? Writing songs for movies with even a big part of his thing. I mean, he's a former Oscar nominee!

Also apparently missing, Monte Hellman, Stuart Gordon, Jessica Walters ...

Pretty sure he would've enjoyed the snub but nevertheless, a good place to start: Stuart Gordon, the motherfuckin' man - FARINA'D!!! pic.twitter.com/kyEZMZIYQn

— Chris Cabin (@Crabin) April 26, 2021

I only watched for hour or so of this yesterday, but it definitely felt like the most boring oscars I've watched. I don't think I fully realized how important having clips was for me. I liked the opening credits.

I usually watch but I know basically none of the movies that were nominated this year so we tuned into a random 15 minutes in the middle during some technical award and it was so weird and awkward and the nominees clearly hated having a camera jammed in their faces and dealing with the presenter's overly-familiar banter. It was all too ramshackle and post-apocalyptic for me. I'll take gross + gaudy Oscar pomp over whatever that was any year.

maybe it's because i was only paying half attention, but the presenter spiels dragged and dragged, making the actual awarding of the oscar a weird anticlimax.