She was.
I would have happily watched something like this unfold (so to speak) that what happened last night. But the Golden Globes are a more button-down affair, so the host coming out to guide Liz was probably more fitting.
I think it’s in a they are all winners for being nominated sort of way (or rather, we don’t want to infer they are “losers”). The preferred phrasing is, “And the Oscar goes to…”
I’m not sure how big a deal it is where it would be called “forbidden”, but I could be wrong. I think it’s just a subtle shift to make sure people know being nominated in itself is a kind of win. Truly it is.
Because AMPAS does not want it to sound as if the other nominees are “losers.” Note that pretty much every other awards show has followed suit.
I remember when Kirk and Michael Douglas presented Best Picture about 20 years ago:
Michael: “And the Oscar goes to”
Kirk (rather sternly) “And the winner is”
Because according to the Academy it’s not a competition so there is no winner, just a person that gets the award.
100% verbatim.
See post 95.
Was there any explanation other than nerves for the Godzilla gentleman’s remarks? I thought it was cute that they all had little monsters, and were quite excited. But his written remarks seemed to greatly exceed his English speaking ability. I wonder if he felt he was able to read them adequately when calm, in the comfort of his home…
Any idea what set Trump off? It didn’t seem especially political to me. There was one joke about the Republican response to the State of the Union, but other than that, not much.
Wokeness.
In reality Kimmel could have been bottle feeding newborn tiger cubs for three hours and Trump would have said the same thing. Kimmel goes at him hard every night so of course he’s “the worst.”
Honestly, it was painful to watch and listen to him struggle through that.
What does this mean? It plays over the big eomotional moment and was incorporated in the score.
This has been my pet peeve about the In Memoriam segment for years. I understand the concept of wanting to have appropriate background music while showing the names, photos, and sometimes clips of the people being memorialized, but the emphasis should be on the latter, not the former. I remember when the whole screen was taken up with the photos and clips, but now they keep pulling back to show the musician or singer (and why do we need dancers?) so you can’t read the names of the deceased.
Al Pacino on the final award:
Even if he wasn’t supposed to read the list of nominees, what he did say was weird enough, “Best Picture, uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. And my eyes see Oppenheimer?”
Pacino is absolutely right. It offends the nature and purpose of the ceremony to not name the nominees at this point – they are all “winners” just for being on such an honoured list. The way that distinguished actors individually praised each of the nominees in the “best actor” categories very effectively supported that spirit. The producers made the right choice in showing excerpts from the Best Picture nominees throughout the ceremony, but they were dead wrong in insisting that the names not be read out when it came time to hand out the Oscar. This is the highlight of the whole event, FFS, at least take a minute to mention all the nominees.
Kimmel handled it beautifully. By reading out this childish drivel and then saying it came from “a former president of the United States” he made the dichotomy starkly clear. Can anyone imagine Obama or Jimmy Carter or anyone other than a mental five-year-old sending a message like that? And Kimmel finished it off saying he was surprised that Trump was still up and watching – “isn’t it past your jail time?” 
Very prescient of you! I honestly think that Annette Bening was the better actress in Nyad, but Nyad just wasn’t as big a movie as Poor Things. If it wasn’t going to be Bening, I’m happy it was Stone.
I’ve always liked Emma Stone – an accomplished actress, and gorgeous in a kind of understated way. A few little things during this segment of the show endeared her to me even more. When her name was announced, she looked shocked rather than gratified. I thought she was going to cry. And who else but Emma, in this world of pompous glitteratti, could go up to the podium in a state of semi-shock and announce “my dress is broken”!
Jennifer Lawrence, probably.
I don’t get the joke, could someone explain?
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When the wrong movie(La La Land) was announced as the winner years ago, it was because Emma Stone’s card was handed to Warren Beatty, so he opened it and saw “Emma Stone - La La Land” and read it as the BP winner.
And then Price-Waterhouse representatives who, for the first time ever, had to make a correction froze up.