The Oscars

[Mike Thick]

If you want to comment about the Oscars live on a political internet forum, this is the thread for you.

[buritobr]

Cate Blanchett is very beautiful, but usually she does not do well in her looks. She is dressed like Galadriel today.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Oh gosh, this Chris Rock monologue! Genius! I haven't laughed this hard at an intro in years! Maybe more than ever before!

New Yorkers are the best at everything. It's unbelievable.

[buritobr]

An award for "The Big Short" is good to Bernie Sanders

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

BREAKING: Big Short screenplay writers endorse TRUMP (developing)

[buritobr]

BREAKING: Big Short screenplay writers endorse TRUMP (developing)

Is it true?

[RI]

Sounded more like a Sanders endorsement.

[Mike Thick]

Yeah. It's not like that was terribly surprising or anything...

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Sounded more like a Sanders endorsement.

Sanders has been destroyed already. The nominees are Hillary and Trump. Hillary took money from the banks. Trump did not.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

BREAKING: Big Short screenplay writers endorse TRUMP (developing)

Is it true?

No

[Cubby]

I watched the first hour and the only time I laughed was when they came back from commercials and Chris Rock said "And we're black." Although Jared Leto gets points for saying "merkin".

Mad Max winning 2 Oscars- disgusting! What a garbage movie. What's next, Michael Bay getting a lifetime achievement award? It was bad enough it was even nominated, but for it to win just reeks of the Academy putting box office grosses ahead of actual film quality.

I miss Billy Crystal so much on Oscar nights.

[RI]

Spotlight? Ugh.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I watched the first hour and the only time I laughed was when they came back from commercials and Chris Rock said "And we're black." Although Jared Leto gets points for saying "merkin".

Leto makes my skin crawl. The fact that he knows (or the people writing his jokes know) obscure terms for the vagina doesn't change that.

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Go ahead and dislike the less technical aspects of Fury Road all you like, but if you have a serious argument that it had bad sound editing, sound mixing, production design, makeup and hairstyling, costume design, and film editing, I'm perfectly willing to hear it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yup.  Indeed, if the Academy weren't so snooty, Fury Road would have been a legitimate contender for best picture rather than something included among the nominees just to add a few eyeballs for the ratings.  It clearly was the best epic film of 2015.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Anyway, did the thank you crawls have the desired effect?

[YaBoyNY]

I poured the Champagne when I saw Leo finally got his Oscar.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Surprised Mad Max did better than Star Wars and The Martian.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Carol was robbed. Obviously mostly at the nominations stage, but whatevers.

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So did the Wolf of Wall Street/Titanic guy finally win the award that everyone was making fun of him for never winning?

And who would've guessed the Academy Awards and the Oscars are the same thing?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Carol was robbed. Obviously mostly at the nominations stage, but whatevers.

I agree that the problem was mostly at the nominations stage, but as for the awards for which it was nominated:

Personally I was the most upset about it losing adapted screenplay to what somebody on tumblr described as 'the Kidz Bop version of The Wolf of Wall Street', but one of Carter Burwell's best scores losing to one of Ennio Morricone's least good (and one which was used for an awful movie, and I say that as somebody who generally likes Tarantino a lot) was also bullsh**t. A valid argument can be made that Brie Larson deserved best actress more than Cate Blanchett. I didn't see The Danish Girl so I can't make any judgment on that one, except that characterizing Rooney Mara's role as 'supporting' was in the first place ridiculous, as the Golden Globes understood (Sarah Paulson, I think, would have been worth considering in that category). Costume design is an understandable loss, cinematography less so (although I won't complain about an Oscar not going to somebody who co-directed a Larry Clark child-porn-in-all-but-name-fest).