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I've never seen Green Room. And, yes, there really was a mix-up at the Oscars that year - La La Land should've won Best Picture. :thumbsup:

I'd like to discuss that if you care to share what Green Book criticism is valid. I'm on this side of the issue: Why the 'Green Book' Controversies Don't Matter by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Hollywood Reporter...

NetFlix was also screening the film for Guild and BAFTA and AMPAS members etc. all over Los Angeles. As well as advertising on nearly every conceivable outdoor space they could get.

I admit that I don't know about showings of Roma in Los Angeles because I saw a screening of it before it was in any theaters here and wasn't looking for it, but I do check movie listings frequently and movies like Beasts of No Nation, last year's Mudbound and Bird Box this year did not play...

IMO, part of the argument here is to separate the theatrical motion picture experience, which is where I prefer to see films, from other means of viewing films. I see no problem with that. I don't like NetFlix films because I don't subscribe to their streaming service and also, if they are...

All eligible motion pictures, unless otherwise noted, must be: a. feature length (defined as over 40 minutes), b. publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24 - or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, source...

See, that's the thing about film awards. It's like having a list of five different foods and picking one as best. Not everyone likes the same foods, but it doesn't mean one is inherently better or worse than the other. So you're left with choosing something that touches you individually. A...

Really, why do you bother posting about the subject when you haven't seen Green Book, dug your heels in about it long ago, surmise you know what it's about and comment accordingly? Sounds like when many AMPAS members publically stated they refused to see Brokeback Mountain a decade ago...

Your opinion. Maybe you just don't like entertaining films. :) I'm glad he didn't know about the family members. I doubt Dick and Lynne and the other Cheney's were consulted about Vice, either. Sounds pretty dismissive of Octavia Spencer. I don't think John Lewis would allow himself to be...

I am so tired of Spike Lee's entitlement issues. ___ Besides the fact that Green Book isn''t just about Don Shirley's life, but also about Tony Lipp's, what is wrong with the "white guy" who knew Don Shirley making a film about him and the white guy who was his father? And you don't think...

^^^ That's why I said "sort of" like, not "exactly" like. ________________ Gold Derby is reporting a rumor that Whoopi Goldberg is hosting the Oscars. https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/whoopi-goldberg-oscars-host-91st-academy-awards/ She has been off The View for a couple weeks. (So...

Every biography film ever made has had detractors one way or another. The internet has allowed criticisms like that to grow exponentially. And the truth is that you can make a great film that totally distorts the subject of a biography. (The documentary Triumph of the Will doesn't tell the whole...

I learned from this link that the Best Picture nominees will be introduced by 8 non-entertainment related people telling how said film affected them. The only person I know that they've announced for this is Serena Williams who will introduce A Star is Born. Does anyone else think this is (what...

I'm not sure that's true that it rewards the widest support over the most passionate support. La La Land seemed to me to have the widest support what with FOURTEEN nominations. "Passionate" support usually comes with an equally passionate group of people that do not like or care for the film...

I am assuming that one reason the Oscar show has kept getting longer is that in the 50's and 60's when hour shows ran 51 minutes they would have 9 minutes of commercials per hour. Now an hour program runs about 44 minutes, so 16 minutes of commercials, and I'm sure that's what shows like the...

I've always wondered, do people watch those shows after the Super Bowl or do they just leave the TV set on? One year when Fox showed Brooklyn Nine-Nine after the Super Bowl, Andy Samberg was on a chat show the next night and the huge ratings for his show were mentioned and he joked as much that...

That's one thing I noticed when watching some of the Academy Award programs on the Oscars youtube channel. When a winner was announced, they'd jump up and head directly to the stage. Some of the crafts award winners didn't even make a speech...they took the award and walked offstage. As for...

Since it's a proven fact that the the length of the proceedings have no correlation to the Academy Awards ratings, why the push by ABC to stir things up? A possibility: A Method Behind the Oscars Telecast Madness? Disney/ABC’s Streaming Plans Suggest There Is...

The meeting happened not long after last years Oscars, so it was nearly a year in advance.

^^^ What is the point, though, if it only saves a few minutes and especially if, as it's been pointed out, the length of the show doesn't correspond to the ratings it does or doesn't receive? Also, if the rest of the world is seeing those categories presented LIVE, as AMPAS says we all can do...

Some of you would have a better argument if you stopped singling out Editing and Cinematography as more important than the Makeup and Hairstyling and Live Action Short categories. Maybe they chose Editing and Cinematography to cut down on Alfonso Cuarón acceptance speeches. :)

Except that once awards by any group start being handed out they all tend to be the same people winning. A herd mentality sets in. Not just the Oscars. Last year at the Oscars who thought McDormand, Oldman, Janney and Rockwell weren't going to win? They'd won most everything else up to that...

I liked Bill Maher's first joke in his Real Time monologue last Friday. He was talking about the frigid cold temperatures in this country. "The cold makes people do crazy things. It's been reported that one guy in Chicago actually watched Roma."

Just some other thoughts about the Oscars...I think the accessibility of films to everyone has dampened the appeal of the awards. When I was growing up in a small town we didn't see many films released during the year and the Oscars were like a menu of films we might like to get to see. The film...

Or the one the year before when they have a "tour group" enter on stage in front of the audience. (Or let's have an unsuspecting pizza delivery guy deliver a stack of pizzas.) It would be one thing if you could actually believe these things were real, but honestly. The street is closed off for...

So you're a Cher thanking her hairdresser kind of guy? j/k Speaking of pushing an agenda, that seems to be the way AMPAS members nominate and vote for the winners too often.

I was watching many of the past Oscar ceremonies on AMPAS's youtube channel. There's always been politics and social issues at the Oscars. People (and movies) have opinions. So what? Interestingly, the songs and music are mostly cut out of the Oscar shows on AMPAS's youtube videos. Ah those...

^^^ Well, blanket statements like yours makes me wonder what you liked. I like most of the films that were nominated for Best Picture, so I wouldn't say it was a lousy year, so I was wondering what your choices would be.

What would you have preferred?

I await your opinions on both of them!