Film Awards Talk - 2019

[Dukefrukem]

Ok Black Panther has already won two awards. Best Production Design & Best Costume Design

[Spinal]

Ok what did i miss so far?

It's been pretty painful to watch thus far.

[Spinal]

But hey, we got to see 1.7 seconds of Cold War.

[dreamdead]

It's been pretty painful to watch thus far.

I feel like a bad human when I have to watch three people awkwardly read from a thank-you list instead of one person reading for all. I understand the collective approach, but it was just dead time, where each would nudge the other.

Still need to see Free Solo, but not sure if any nominee was as interesting to me as Minding the Gap.

[transmogrifier]

Ok Black Panther has already won two awards. Best Production Design & Best Costume Design

I hope Black Panther wins Best Picture because it would be the perfect symbol of the pointlessness of this entire charade. Crash needs some company as the worst Best Picture winner.

[Spinal]

With awards like these, it's really astonishing anyone thought a Best Popular Film category was necessary.

[transmogrifier]

With awards like these, it's really astonishing anyone thought a Best Popular Film category was necessary.

I know, it's bizarre.

[Dukefrukem]

I haven't seen First Man yet... but really? Best VFX?

[dreamdead]

Gonna be hilarious if Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody keep taking awards and Yorgos Lanthimos and Spike Lee get nothing.

[Skitch]

I haven't seen First Man yet... but really? Best VFX?

Guess I need to bump it up.

[Spinal]

This awards show is worse than cancer.

[Dukefrukem]

There you go Spike.

[Spinal]

Well, at least there was that.

[Spinal]

It's too bad his speech was largely incoherent.

[amberlita]

I haven't seen First Man yet... but really? Best VFX?

Yes. It also deserved Best Film Editing (and a number of additional nominations), but alas...

[Spinal]

It's abundantly clear that Oscar voters don't really watch the movies that are not nominated for Best Picture. They should probably just admit that.

[Wryan]

lol Green Book?

[Irish]

I recorded and started watching around 70 minutes in. The experience is greatly helped by fast forwarding over bad speeches and endless commercials. Eventually I caught up to the live show.

No-host moves things along but it also makes the ceremony rather soulless. It doesn't feel like there would be much difference between watching live and watching an autoplay of YouTube clips the next day.

Very happy "Black Panther" nabbed Costume and Production Design.

Glad "Into the Spider-verse" won, especially since some other films in that category were flat out terrible.

Spike's speech was embarrassing and he should have given his co-writers a turn at the mic.

But: first time in forever I wasn't severely annoyed by either screenplay win.

Olivia Coleman was charming.

Burst into loud laughter when "Green Book" won. I can already picture the bitching and moaning on twitter.

I enjoyed watching the show. It was a low-key, mediocre year so it didn't feel like the stakes were all that high and that was something of a relief.

[DavidSeven]

Preferential voting ballot strikes again.

Olivia Coleman’s speech was great.

[baby doll]

For some reason I'm a little nostalgic for the days when they didn't "spread the love," but a single inevitable blockbuster crushed the competition like steamroller.

[Peng]

Crash needs some company as the worst Best Picture winner.

Wish granted!

[baby doll]

Anybody who thinks Crash is the worst best picture winner has not seen Gigi.

[Peng]

I liked Bohemian Rhapsody less than Green Book, but I would take the former as Best Pic winner over the latter. At least I would understand that it's insanely popular, instead of wrapping my head around the Academy embracing a film as retrograde in both film aspect and race aspect as this.

[baby doll]

You Can't Take it with You, Gone with the Wind, All About Eve, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Sound of Music, Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech, and The Artist also suck.

[Spinal]

On some level, Green Book is easier to swallow than Bohemian Rhapsody or Black Panther because I don't actually know anyone who likes it.