The 97th Academy Awards

[Ellie]

Who the hell is Lisa and why is she miming badly?

 

[VoR]

Who the hell is Lisa and why is she miming badly?

One of Blackpink apparently.

 

[Ellie]

One of Blackpink apparently.

Well that was NOT LIVE

 

[Ellie]

Note to hear Skyfall being sung in tune for once. Still, do You Know My Name or The Living Daylights instead.

 

[Finn]

OMG Daryl Hannah

 

[Finn]

Wait... she's married to NEIL YOUNG thesedays?!

 

[Finn]

Wait... Sean Baker's married to a WOMAN?!

 

[Joseph]

She was robbed

 

[Finn]

Anora getting screenplay AND editing has me convinced it's taking best picture, and makes me worry for our Demi's best actress chances too

 

[Finn]

I really appreciate how the Oscars producers acknowledged that all the original song nominees were a BIT SHIT this year, and have saved us from having to see them performed in the ceremony

 

[Ellie]

Can someone just put Diane Warren out of her misery?

 

[Finn]

Can someone just put Diane Warren out of her misery?

It genuinely is starting to look like a vendetta against her

16 noms and no win is substantially worse than if it were chosen at random

 

[Christian]

Mick’s been the best presenter so far

 

[Ellie]

Deserved for Doc Short there. I could have watched a feature length film on her as she was so charming and interesting. The more “serious” ones in the category were on subjects that had been done before and to better effect, although Death By Numbers was well done.

 

[VoR]

Diane Warren very noticeably not clapping for No Other Land there.

 

[Ellie]

I have to confess, I watched No Other Land on 2x speed.

 

[Ellie]

Dune Part 2 winning for Loudest Film.

 

[Ellie]

FFS, I should have bet on I Am Not A Robot. It was by far the best of the live action shorts (it’s just a short Black Mirror episode), but had the longest betting odds for some reason.

 

[Finn]

Why was the In Memoriam segment soundtracked with music that made it sound like they'd all gone to HELL?

 

[Finn]

I didn't watch it last year, so it may have been the same then, but it's interesting that ITV haven't had a single ad break since the ceremony started.

Tbh I'd prefer a few adverts over Frostrup

 

[Christian]

COME TO BRAZIL!

 

[Finn]

HOORAY. I'm Still Here is fucking amazing and I keep meaning to make a thread about it.

 

[Ellie]

Get that CUNT Oprah OFF the screen. Also Quincy Jones never won a single Oscar and they left him out of In Memoriam. He was rightly honoured at the Grammys.

 

[Christian]

I knew you'd love this section @Ellie

 

[Christian]

These Saturday night variety show special musical sequences have been uniformly terrible.

 

[Christian]

Two songs from The Wiz really is a bit unimaginative.

 

[VoR]

Ease on Down The Road isn’t even the best song from The Wiz, let alone good enough to represent Quincey Jones’ contribution to movie music.

 

[Ellie]

Quincy Jones was the Diane Warren of his day.

 

[Ellie]

TWO TIME winner Adrien Brody. That just doesn’t sit right.

 

[Christian]

Still the youngest Best Actor winner then.

 

[Christian]

Another twenty years of terrible films before his next win then?

 

[Finn]

GET OFF THE STAGE YOU BORING DICKHEAD

 

[Joseph]

I really hate him

 

[ManicKangaroo]

Why are they letting him drone on

 

[Joseph]

They play off the poor people who never get acknowledged but let this fucker moan on and on

 

[Ellie]

His wife looks like Dannii Minogue.

Anyway, maybe another Predators sequel, and some more tedious turns in tedious Wes Anderson films for him next.

 

[Christian]

Crank the music up!

 

[Finn]

Clearly a very controlling man. Every time I see him he comes with a NEW RED FLAG

 

[ManicKangaroo]

Cut to John Lithgow

 

[Finn]

I'm so happy for Sean Baker. I really thought this would go to boring ol' Brady Corbet