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Monday, February 25, 2019

The 91st Annual Academy Awards

With no host and no stupid skits, the 91st Oscar ceremony went smoothly and relatively quickly, only going 20 minutes over the appointed time.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the winners. This is real, tangible progress of a more inclusive Academy, especially with 'below the line' nominations - Which were all aired.






ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Really no surprise here, but nice to see.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE


Free Solo

Another no brainer, though I wondered if "Hale Country This Morning, This Evening" might sneak in.



MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING



Vice

The party for Annapurna ended right here.



COSTUME DESIGN



Black Panther



PRODUCTION DESIGN



Black Panther

The MCU's first Oscars, courtesy of Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beacher. Black women! 



CINEMATOGRAPHY



Roma



FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM



Roma



FILM EDITING



Bohemian Rhapsody

What? Or maybe they meant editing out Singer's involvement on their press tour.



ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE



Mahershala Ali, Green Book 

With both of his two Oscar noms ending up in wins in their respective Seasons, let's hope he can get a role that's not Reverse Driving Ms. Daisy.



ANIMATED FEATURE FILM



Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

HELL YES!
The only correct Answer, but we know how averse The Academy is to right answers.



ANIMATED SHORT FILM



Bao



DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT



Period. End of Sentence.

This is on Netflix, a short watch of only about 25 minutes. Check it out!



VISUAL EFFECTS



First Man

This is .... fair to me, I think. I can see how The Academy went with this over Infinity War, Solo (Been there, done that), and Ready Player One ("It's ONLY a video game!")





ORIGINAL SCORE



Black Panther 



ORIGINAL SONG



"Shallow," A Star Is Born



ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE



Olivia Colman, The Favourite



We all really thought Miss Glenn was getting that Lifetime Achievement win.



BEST PICTURE
Green Book

The Academy still has a good portion of members being old white men who think racism must be over since they can't call someone a negro anymore, so this is disappointing but not surprising. 

I haven't met anyone who wasn't A) Older than 40 or B) White who liked this.

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