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The Oscars 2019 Blow By Blow.

EddMarkStarr said:
Nominations aplenty. I was so sure The Favorite would do better.
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I think it was just outgunned. It's good that it's on my list to see. This is just one of those years when there were multiple contenders. Beats a blowout.
 
Kudos to Viggo. He is so capable. I know the screenplay was the biggie, but he delivers so well. And I love that he isn't type cast.
 
Juiia Roberts with a wonky nose.

Best Film is.....

Green Book, God knows how.

Well gents thanks very much for joining me for the show, hopefully we'll all be around to do it again next year.

With it being not far off 5am here i'm off to bed, have a good evening gents.
 
Let's do this again next year and cheer for, "Green Book 2: Freddy Gets Fingered"

Good night everyone.

Edd
 
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This was pretty spectacular.
 
Interesting ^^ point---actress was the biggest upset---Glenn Close in her gold Oscar dressed --ready to accept---looked shocked.lol
 
Wow. Talk about sour grapes.

Spike Lee is all over the press today after he was asked about his behavior during the acceptance speech for Green Book. He got up, ran to the back of the auditorium in a huff, came back and argued with Jordan Peele behind him, and then turned his back to the stage in protest of the win. He got Best Adapted Screenplay, but was chapped about not winning best pic.

https://deadline.com/2019/02/spike-...scars-blackkklansman-jordan-peele-1202564402/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/entertainment/green-book-politics/index.html

I mean, if you're going to go to the party, eat the food, drink the booze, it ill behooves you to then criticize your host. He was all over the place winning his Oscar, and then had the balls to snub Green Book when he didn't win. Shades of Kanye West.

The awards were the most recognizing of diversity than they have ever been, out of proportion to the representation, and everyone was happy, but now it gets pissed on. Tsk, tsk.
 
There were also some very disappointed Glenn Close fans at her record setting nomination tally with never a win. She really has shone in so many performances, but she lost gracefully, again.

This is a funny Tweet that was posted, showing Wiki's page on Glenn Close as having been doctored after the loss to express the frustration:

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NotHardUp1 said:
It's basically a classic gown with a stole of organza (with spangles) but inverted, and worn as a bodice with a train. It's inventive.
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This is one of the gayest posts I've read at JUB.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Wow. Talk about sour grapes.

Spike Lee is all over the press today after he was asked about his behavior during the acceptance speech for Green Book. He got up, ran to the back of the auditorium in a huff, came back and argued with Jordan Peele behind him, and then turned his back to the stage in protest of the win. He got Best Adapted Screenplay, but was chapped about not winning best pic.

https://deadline.com/2019/02/spike-...scars-blackkklansman-jordan-peele-1202564402/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/entertainment/green-book-politics/index.html

I mean, if you're going to go to the party, eat the food, drink the booze, it ill behooves you to then criticize your host. He was all over the place winning his Oscar, and then had the balls to snub Green Book when he didn't win. Shades of Kanye West.

The awards were the most recognizing of diversity than they have ever been, out of proportion to the representation, and everyone was happy, but now it gets pissed on. Tsk, tsk.
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This article might explain some of his actions.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/24/entertainment/green-book-best-picture-oscars/index.html

Seems people are upset that Green Book was basically another Driving Miss Daisy.
 
Sixthson said:
This is one of the gayest posts I've read at JUB.
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I would hope so. The day a straight man can out-describe fabrics, then we've all lost.

Membership has its privileges.

My grandmother's avocation was being seamstress. She really talked fabric and sewing a lot, and truly had a passion for it. Colman's gown was respectable, if trying a bit too hard to be unconventional by reversing the wearing of the stole.

Look at Jacqueline Kennedy or Grace Kelly and see normal stoles draped around the shoulders and you see the inversion clearly in the gown at the Oscars. The netted cloth with sparkles was just the bling the stage expects when you're a star.
 
Cormac135 said:
This article might explain some of his actions.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/24/entertainment/green-book-best-picture-oscars/index.html

Seems people are upset that Green Book was basically another Driving Miss Daisy.
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I just think his snark is in very bad taste. He stood there in the CNN link, drinking his champagne in celebration, but snidely carping about the Best Picture winner. Social justice politics as entertainment aside, graceful winning is even more important than graceful losing.

The awards are given by the members of the Academy. It isn't the biggest box office draw, or the biggest named actors or anything.

There has been a hue and cry about black cinema and artists not being selected, and the Academy responded by recognizing more than ever before. And anyone watching who knows cinema can certainly tell you that Black Panther won far more awards than its quality merited in light of the competition. But it was a good thing, and overdue.

Lee's peeve just takes the shine off it. Hollywood isn't exactly the oppressor. My take on it is that they gave the award to Green Book because it contextualizes the civil rights story in a metaphor of unity. The story of the Klan may have seemed too out of date to be relevant to today, even though it was more recent than the setting for Green Book. Perhaps Lee couldn't take enough edge off his tale to win over as many in the industry for the message the film ultimately conveyed.

Both movies had the requisite black man/white man duo to try to ensure box office appeal, as only blockbusters like Black Panther break into the high dollars, not just talky pieces about two men on a road trip.

Honestly, I think the anger and division in my country, fanned too often by cinema, news, and online, made the message of unity more appealing.

On the radio, I heard criticisms by some of the pianist's family members complaining that the story had been embellished. Duh. It's Hollywood, not PBS. And the link to the CNN story you provided has some going into Farelly's sexual conduct and the writer's apparent Tweet about 9/11. Really? This movie is good or bad based on whether the star and writer are exemplars of today's mores?

The idea that art, including cinema, must be made by holy hands is an obscenity. Is the movie good, or not?
 
OK, so I didn't see the Oscars, haven't watched in many years, BUT I thought this article on the # Who Cares Oscars? was both insightful and clever:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019...ough Friday 2019-02-25&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

I also didn't see any of the nominated pictures or actors. I can't imagine any of them was better than "The Happy Prince" or Rupert Everett who wrote, directed and starred (in three languages no less!) He was robbed.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
I just think his snark is in very bad taste. He stood there in the CNN link, drinking his champagne in celebration, but snidely carping about the Best Picture winner. Social justice politics as entertainment aside, graceful winning is even more important than graceful losing.

The awards are given by the members of the Academy. It isn't the biggest box office draw, or the biggest named actors or anything.

There has been a hue and cry about black cinema and artists not being selected, and the Academy responded by recognizing more than ever before. And anyone watching who knows cinema can certainly tell you that Black Panther won far more awards than its quality merited in light of the competition. But it was a good thing, and overdue.

Lee's peeve just takes the shine off it. Hollywood isn't exactly the oppressor. My take on it is that they gave the award to Green Book because it contextualizes the civil rights story in a metaphor of unity. The story of the Klan may have seemed too out of date to be relevant to today, even though it was more recent than the setting for Green Book. Perhaps Lee couldn't take enough edge off his tale to win over as many in the industry for the message the film ultimately conveyed.

Both movies had the requisite black man/white man duo to try to ensure box office appeal, as only blockbusters like Black Panther break into the high dollars, not just talky pieces about two men on a road trip.

Honestly, I think the anger and division in my country, fanned too often by cinema, news, and online, made the message of unity more appealing.

On the radio, I heard criticisms by some of the pianist's family members complaining that the story had been embellished. Duh. It's Hollywood, not PBS. And the link to the CNN story you provided has some going into Farelly's sexual conduct and the writer's apparent Tweet about 9/11. Really? This movie is good or bad based on whether the star and writer are exemplars of today's mores?

The idea that art, including cinema, must be made by holy hands is an obscenity. Is the movie good, or not?
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Again, I haven't seen any of the movies or performances that won, but I thought this article is an interesting coda to your post:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/oscars-2019-academy-awards-fakes-history-remakes-new/
 
LatimerRd said:
Again, I haven't seen any of the movies or performances that won, but I thought this article is an interesting coda to your post:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/oscars-2019-academy-awards-fakes-history-remakes-new/
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Thank you. The article was a good walk through the current politics of the Academy. The electioneering is news, but not surprising. For a time, the disproportionate praise of minority cinema will be acceptable due to the longstanding imbalance that has existed, but it will eventually wear its shine down. Gays and blacks alike will be unhappy when the number of films, actors, and awards begin to proportionately appear. Likewise, conversation about gay issues, gays, and minorities, when realistically portrayed, is far lower than broadcast media represents.

Lee's churlish slap at Green Book arises from his longstanding burn. His pique has grown, even as black power has increased and more blacks have escaped the grinding poverty that Jim Crow and Northern ghettos bound them within. If Dr. King's tone had been as ascerbic, he would have never risen to greatness in the manner he did. He became a saint because he was martyred for a noble cause, not merely a bitter struggle.

Lee runs the risk of becoming a caricature of himself as he flails about here in his senior years. The Johnny Depp wardrobe didn't do him any favors either. You can be stylish and original without being the Joker or Matthew Lesko.
 
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