# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/61 "2017-02-27T03:44:58Z")
Eeeeee! Oscars are always cute. Especially when I win the picks! (Crossing fingers…) My toss up is Isabelle over Emma. Love them both, but I would’ve picked Amy Awesome Adams for actresss this time… IF she were nominated. ☹ ---
**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, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/62 "2017-02-27T03:47:37Z")
Saw the ad for Bright and was thinking they don’t do movie ads during the Oscars, but then saw it was a Netflix movie. Brian ---
**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, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/63 "2017-02-27T03:48:00Z")
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM Sing ---
**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, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/64 "2017-02-27T03:50:29Z")
I knew White Helmets would win! It’s so powerful. I suspected Sing would win too. I should have said so in advance because I don’t look so pundent-y NOW. > [@eunoia](#): > > The Coens are probably popping champagne and celebrating winning one less Oscar than Citizen Kane. ?? Citizen Kane won 1 Oscar. No Country For Old Men won 4. Fargo won 2. Bridge of Spies, which they wrote, won 1. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/65 "2017-02-27T03:53:03Z")
Kimmel is… bland. Like, really bland. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/66 "2017-02-27T03:58:04Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > ?? Citizen Kane won 1 Oscar. No Country For Old Men won 4. Fargo won 2. Bridge of Spies, which they wrote, won 1. I assumed the reference was to how many for the evening, not career… ---
**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, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/67 "2017-02-27T03:59:21Z")
CINEMATOGRAPHY La La Land ---
**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, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/68 "2017-02-27T04:07:02Z")
John Legend, performing “The Rainbow Connection” with the sheet music upside down. ---
**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, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/69 "2017-02-27T04:10:22Z")
I hate every single person in that Adidas commercial, individually and collectively. ---
**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, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/70 "2017-02-27T04:12:30Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > I assumed the reference was to how many for the evening, not career… Wasn’t immediately obvious I suppose. Coen films have the same problem. ---
**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, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/71 "2017-02-27T04:14:54Z")
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) 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, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/72 "2017-02-27T04:17:55Z")
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) “City Of Stars,” La La Land ---
**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, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/73 "2017-02-27T04:19:40Z")
You’d think a modern composer could learn to speed-rap a whole bunch of names. ---
**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, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/74 "2017-02-27T04:25:28Z")
Regarding the In Memoriam part: As I said before, it was really sad that last year we lost a Prince and a Princess. And also Gene Wilder among many others… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/75 "2017-02-27T04:25:45Z")
Wait. did I miss Bowie, Rickman and Prince in there? ---
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/76 "2017-02-27T04:27:09Z")
OK, thank you to the Oscar director who didn’t have the audience mics up so we **didn’t** hear some people being applauded and others ignored. ---
**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, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/77 "2017-02-27T04:27:46Z")
That was a very well done In Memorioum segment. I somehow missed that Abbas Kiarostami had died. Damn. > [@eunoia](#): > > Wasn’t immediately obvious I suppose. Coen films have the same problem. I get Coen Brothers films. I still don’t get your post. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/78 "2017-02-27T04:30:40Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > OK, thank you to the Oscar director who didn’t have the audience mics up so we **didn’t** hear some people being applauded and others ignored. I think they established “no applause until the end” a few years back, for just that reason. I still think they should have used John Williams’ “Leia’s Theme” for the segment, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/79 "2017-02-27T04:30:42Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Wait. did I miss Bowie, Rickman and Prince in there? David Bowie and Alan Rickman both died in January 2016, so they may have been mentioned in last year’s ceremonies. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/80 "2017-02-27T04:31:12Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) > “City Of Stars,” La La Land My apologies for throwing out my opinion here, but “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” is the better song of the two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905.md?page=5)