# Oscars 2017 thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905 "2017-02-27T01:12:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/41 "2017-02-27T02:50:51Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > …and Kevin O’Connell has got a **serious** resume of films to his credit! [Yep!](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640114/reference) ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/42 "2017-02-27T02:53:23Z")
Love Viola Davis, it’s great material, she’s done it on stage, film, still brings it fresh. Leading lady talent. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/43 "2017-02-27T02:54:30Z")
CBS Sunday Morning showed one of the nominated animated shorts (Pixar’s Piper) – It was seriously cute. Brian ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/44 "2017-02-27T02:55:03Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > …and Kevin O’Connell has got a **serious** resume of films to his credit! It’s one of those categories where professionals in the field nominate, and the majority (who are mainly actors) vote. So it’s one of those situations where getting nominated is the main honor, as the non-experts tend to vote for the film they liked best. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/45 "2017-02-27T02:56:36Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > CBS Sunday Morning showed one of the nominated animated shorts (Pixar’s Piper) – It was seriously cute. > > Brian It’s amazing. If you have an Android phone, download Google Stories and you can see it as it’s meant to be seen - as a VR experience where you look around the inside of the car from the passenger seat. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/46 "2017-02-27T02:58:05Z")
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Salesman ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/47 "2017-02-27T03:04:09Z")
Yes, the Iranian film. The Iranian director of The Salesman would had been banned to come to the USA under the executive order. The order was stopped in the courts, but it would be a guess if he had been allowed to come if a new order was made, so a statement was read explaining that he was not present to accept his Oscar to protest that nonsense that banned also people that already had visas. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/48 "2017-02-27T03:07:05Z")
And there is the simple but poignant ad by The New York Times against the Alternative Facts (AKA Lies). ‘The Truth Is More Important Than Ever’. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/49 "2017-02-27T03:08:39Z")
ANIMATED SHORT FILM Piper Pixar does it again. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/50 "2017-02-27T03:09:18Z")
\*Piper \*was really pretty, but \*Pearl \*was the best. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/51 "2017-02-27T03:12:10Z")
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Zootopia Had to, considering how its message of inclusion is very pertinent today. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/52 "2017-02-27T03:14:40Z")
PRODUCTION DESIGN La La Land ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/53 "2017-02-27T03:19:26Z")
Nice bit with the tourist bus people invited by surprise to the theater. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/54 "2017-02-27T03:25:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Nice bit with the tourist bus people invited by surprise to the theater. Real movie buffs wouldn’t be on a tour bus while the Oscars are on though. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/55 "2017-02-27T03:31:30Z")
VISUAL EFFECTS The Jungle Book ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/56 "2017-02-27T03:33:31Z")
It’s official, Hail, Caesar! wins no Oscars. The Coens are probably popping champagne and celebrating winning one less Oscar than Citizen Kane. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/57 "2017-02-27T03:34:48Z")
Michael J. Fox, still hanging in there!.. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/58 "2017-02-27T03:36:47Z")
FILM EDITING Hacksaw Ridge. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/59 "2017-02-27T03:42:51Z")
OK, that Google Earth ad got me weepy. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/60 "2017-02-27T03:44:49Z")
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