CODA!
I don’t love it, but it is better than Power of the Dog.
I think the delay is only a few seconds, not enough to explain the early Wikipedia edit.
Typical delays to edit out things like the Smith-Rock exchange or switch to another camera are 30 seconds. Five minutes is longer than I’ve ever heard of.
And in order to have the wiki edit appear 5 minutes early, the delay would have to be minutes longer than that.
In the old analog days, tape delays were seven seconds, but in the digital era it can be any duration desired, and making it a manner of minutes provides greater flexibility. I don’t know how long the delay is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a matter of a minute or more. Possibly enough to explain the Wikipedia post. Just my WAG.
Oh, and I just remembered that in watching the wiki page on the awards (I used to use a pencil and paper, but refreshing the wiki is so much better), I saw that the Eilish win on Best Song appeared almost an hour early on the page (and was reverted before the award was televised).
So, given how certain Chastain’s win was, I’m guessing that an editor jumped the gun.
I agree that’s the likely explanation. Remember that just about anyone could have made that change.
Yeah, that is a known Wiki vulnerability after all.
Live updates are fairly reliable, but definitely Wikipedia’s weakness.
Smith hitting Rock will overshadow him finally winning an Oscar for the rest of his life.
To cap off the show, Here’s the wiki page with all the details and for those to impatient to click and scroll through the wiki page, here is the final list of winners.
Best Picture
CODA
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Actor in a Leading Role
Will Smith
King Richard
Directing
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
Music (Original Song)
“No Time To Die” from No Time to Die
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
Documentary Feature
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CODA
Screenplay by Siân Heder
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Belfast
Written by Kenneth Branagh
Costume Design
Cruella
Jenny Beavan
International Feature Film
Drive My Car (Japan)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Troy Kotsur
CODA
Animated Feature Film
Encanto
Visual Effects
Dune
Cinematography
Dune
Greig Fraser
Actress in a Supporting Role
Ariana DeBose
West Side Story
Makeup and Hairstyling
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Production Design
Dune
Film Editing
Dune
Joe Walker
Music (Original Score)
Dune
Hans Zimmer
Live Action Short Film
The Long Goodbye
Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
Animated Short Film
The Windshield Wiper
Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
Documentary Short Subject
The Queen of Basketball
Ben Proudfoot
Best Sound
Dune
100% the case. It will always be the first clip shown and the first memory people have of it.
I think this is easier to hear (I queued it to the interaction):
I do love that no one stopped the show or did anything to help Chris Rock out at all. Chris, apparently the professional, continued to go on and give out the award. Gotta love it.
Will Smith violated the “Jester’s Privilege”. He’s going to be taking shit from every comic in the country for years to come.
I suppose someone with a recording of the show could try to correlate it with the timestamps of the wiki page’s history page.
I was puzzled by the three cuts to the Academy logo during Smith’s acceptance speech. The first time it happened, he said, “I just spit. I hope they didn’t show that,” which might be an explanation, although it seems overly delicate. They then cut to a shot of the Williams sisters and their party, then almost immediately cut back to the logo, and repeated those two shots. I thought it might have been because the left nipple of the woman on the right (Serena, I think) was just barely visible peeking out from her dress. But then why come back to the shot twice? Anyone else catch that and have any thoughts?
Maybe everyone in the control room was a bit jittery and on edge.
Hell, next year’s hosts will be ripping him at the Oscars. He should be there, since he will be expected to present Best Actress.
I don’t.
Maybe you are being snarky. It remains that Smith should have been “escorted” out on the spot.
If you had been the one to smack Chris Rock you can be sure that, at the very least, you would have been escorted out.
The award shows need to start guarding the stage. No one who is not expected to come forward is allowed. Tackle anyone else who tries to get up there.
I particularly liked the tribute to Stanley Kubrick, where they recreated the scene from Barry Lyndon when Barry freaks out and wails on young Lord Bullington, destroying his own reputation.
I think this is the first time the stage has been so close to the audience and so low down that you can just step onto it. In other auditoriums there was a lot more space between the people on stage and the audience, with the stairs being on the sides and the stage several feet higher. I guess they figured, “Why do we need to worry about it being so close, it’s not like a Hollywood superstar would storm the stage or anything…”
Will Smith is an entitled asshole.