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Typo on my part.

Even if he's telling the truth and it wasn't about Boseman, it's still stupid. There is a reason the show is structured with Best Picture last. It is the biggest award. Even a win for Boseman would not have been an appropriate ending because there is a natural build to the evening which leads...

Sony Pictures Classics already released The Wife too in addition to The Father. ;)

The Hollywood Reporter has a post-mortem article about the new combined Best Sound Oscar: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/sound-pros-evaluate-relaunch-best-sound-oscar

Right. But they knew that it was at least possible Hopkins might win. They knew he wasn't going to attend. They weren't allowing webcam acceptances. Especially because of their decision to make this award the very last one, it seems like there should have been at least a conversation about...

Setting aside whether or not it was appropriate to honor Boseman last, I'm shocked that the producers don't appear to have considered the possibility that he would lose. It was very strange how they just sort of threw to Questlove to come up with some kind of closure for the evening after the...

I don't think anyone intended to "gang up on" you. At least I didn't. We obviously disagree over the handling of the ceremony, and that's fine.

Glenn Close is probably the best living actress who hasn't won yet. It is certainly within her capabilities to make it look totally spontaneous even if it wasn't.

As I already expressed multiple times throughout this thread, I think that restructuring the show so that the final moments would be focused on the loss of a dead guy is manipulative and exploitative. If a win for Boseman had panned out, it would have been highly emotional regardless of where...

I'm waiting to see The Father because it is a premium rental price right now and I don't want to pay that much. But I've heard a lot of people say they were both great and both deserving, which is probably the case. There can, of course, be multiple great performances in a single year even...

You're right, they didn't. But they did it this this time -- or certainly tried to before Hopkins' win put a stop to their plan.

Complaints about clips mostly occur if they select something that spoils the film. If the clip is well chosen, it can represent the film without ruining major plot points. The idea of the film clips is to show the audience a sample of what is being recognized. In theory, this should help make...

They still had people sing, so that wasn't about the virus. They moved all of the Best Song performances into the pre-show before the awards actually started. I agree that the lack of clips was deeply problematic for this ceremony in particular. Due to the pandemic, these films are the...

If Boseman was still alive today, we would not be having this conversation right now because Best Picture would have been awarded last. Moving Actor to the end was a direct result of Boseman's death, which is what makes it so tacky and disgusting as a choice.

I don't know, but that's a good question.

I completely disagree with that. Anyone who is nominated for an Oscar over the course of their lifetime should be recognized when they pass away with a spot in this segment. They should've spent at least as long on this as they did playing Name That Tune, especially in a year with...

Anthony Hopkins has responded to his Oscar win via an Instagram video, and he recognized Boseman in it. This guy is all class. https://deadline.com/2021/04/anthony-hopkins-video-reaction-surprise-best-actor-oscar-win-tribute-chadwick-boseman-1234744077/

The thing that gets me about putting Best Actor last is that it feels exploitive of Chadwick Boseman's memory. The producers of the show wanted to end the show on a highly emotional moment by awarding Boseman last because of his death. If Boseman were alive today, there is no way they would...

That's fair. Your personal response is your personal response and is of course valid. I wasn't nearly as invested in them this year either for different reasons, but I still watched more out of habit than anything else.

I agree with that and I miss the theater as well. But what was their alternative? Obviously it was very important to the Academy to have the show despite the situation with the pandemic, so they did what they could. The films that were nominated tonight are not lesser work because they went...

The thing is that the pandemic has actually made accessing the nominees easier because all of them are available on streaming. So you can see all of the Best Picture nominees without leaving your house. But as per usual the Academy chose a bunch of films that wide audiences either haven't...

Unless I blinked and missed him (and I don't think I did), Adam Schlesinger was omitted from the In Memoriam segment. Unfortunately, he passed away due to COVID last year. He was nominated for Best Original Song for writing the title track of That Thing You Do! in 1996-7.

I thought the whole show was a bore. The lack of clips from the major nominees did little to encourage any telecast viewers to seek out those movies. On the rare occasion when they did decide a clip was needed, there were often spoilers. (The clip from Onward gives away the emotional climax...

Actually, no. Mary Poppins Returns debuted its first footage during the Oscars in 2018 and was released in December.

Speaking of clips, they couldn't have picked a bigger spoiler clip for Onward than the one they used. I mean, the movie has been out for a year, but still. Soul and Wolfwalkers also had sections that I wouldn't have put in a clip package due to their location and story points in the film.

The upside of not having clips is they can't spoil anything for people who haven't seen them yet. But the solution there is just to pick clips that don't have spoilers.

I'm watching on my TV and it looks fine to me butI agree it's weird for it to be in 2.35:1. Notice they are just having the presenter talk about each nominee instead of showing clips. I'd rather have the clips.

If they have the presenters do a long blurb about every single nominee in every single category, this is going to be really, really long.

What I would most like to see happen is for Soul to win Best Picture. Since that's not going to happen, I'll settle for it winning Best Animated Feature and Best Score. It is also nominated for Best Sound, but I think that one will go to Sound of Metal.

As a side note/counterpoint to the Oscars, the Razzie Award "winners" are here. (I figured this might as well go here rather than its own thread because there's not much to say about it, but it's kind of funny.)