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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s so weird when everyone thanks their children.

Thanking your parents who presumably supported you and nurtured your interest in performing makes sense.

But thanking your three year old…or any kid, really?

Why not thank your cat or dog while you’re at it?

It's guilt. So when the kids are grown up and feeling abandoned during their childhood, the parent can say i thought about you all the time, see I thanked you at the Oscars

Anonymous wrote:They cut off so many winners mid-speech or only let one person of a team speak (until the very end) yet didn’t have enough material to fill the full time allotted and finished 7 mins early… poor planning.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like people who can't see the worth in Moonlight are either racist, homophobic or both.

It's considered one of the best films yet made in this century and I'm still angry that the cast and crew didn't get their moment in the sun because of the cockup with the envelopes at the Oscars that year.

It's a brilliant film, full of brilliant performances.

And yes, I'm going there - Oscars so white 2024. Again.

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s so weird when everyone thanks their children.

Thanking your parents who presumably supported you and nurtured your interest in performing makes sense.

But thanking your three year old…or any kid, really?

Why not thank your cat or dog while you’re at it?

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Anonymous wrote:Awkward presentation by Pacino. Weren’t they supposed to read the contenders?

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Anonymous wrote:Al Pacino’s strange Best Picture announcement may have topped Elizabeth Taylor announcing Gladiator twenty-some years ago.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Anonymous wrote:I also didn’t expect that. She was great in Poor Things.

I hated La La Land (nothing about her performance—just thought it was an empty and meaningless movie) and so I feel like this was the first deserved win for her!