# 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:** 6
**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, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/101 "2017-02-27T04:57:37Z")
Actress in a Leading Role Emma Stone, La La Land ---
**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, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/102 "2017-02-27T04:58:28Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > The “other Affleck Brother” no longer! Or, I know who the “other Affleck brother” is… ---
**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, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/103 "2017-02-27T05:01:11Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > The “other Affleck Brother” no longer! I can’t shake how he does look there like if he is getting ready to play the part of Confederate general John Bell Hood. ---
**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, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/104 "2017-02-27T05:05:48Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I can’t shake how he does look there like if he is getting ready to play the part of Confederate general John Bell Hood. Or Meriwether Lewis, if’n he shaves… ---
**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, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/105 "2017-02-27T05:08:52Z")
**Best Picture** \*\*La La Land \*\* With a total of 7 Oscars for the night. Belay that! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/106 "2017-02-27T05:10:13Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Actress in a Leading Role[/U > Emma Stone, La La Land Love her, but man if they ain’t giving it to every pretty young actress around. Its almost as it they have said “_first you J’Lo, then you Brie, and I think we can put you up Miss Stone after that; we do have to give one to Julianne Moore, she has had a long career, you know what, Brie, you move back a year_” ---
**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, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/107 "2017-02-27T05:10:19Z")
I don’t believe there were any surprises all evening; those who won were the ones predicted to win. ---
**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, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/108 "2017-02-27T05:12:01Z")
Doh! ---
**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, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/109 "2017-02-27T05:12:02Z")
Holy shit! ---
**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, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/110 "2017-02-27T05:12:10Z")
OK, there was one surprise tonight. ---
**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, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/111 "2017-02-27T05:12:21Z")
OH MY GOD! They read the wrong name! Moonlight won! ---
**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, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/112 "2017-02-27T05:13:20Z")
Warren, what did you do?!? ---
**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, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/113 "2017-02-27T05:13:58Z")
So, ET finally won??? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/114 "2017-02-27T05:14:19Z")
Warren says they gave him the wrong card. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/115 "2017-02-27T05:14:38Z")
What the heck just happened? ---
**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, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/116 "2017-02-27T05:15:38Z")
Did the same accounting firm handle the election? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/117 "2017-02-27T05:16:13Z")
Oh, I see now. Thanks, Rick! ---
**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, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/118 "2017-02-27T05:16:19Z")
OoooooooooK… Take 2: **Best Picture** **Moonlight** Yes, really, Warren Beatty did read a name and then thought that the winner was La La Land. ---
**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, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/119 "2017-02-27T05:16:50Z")
So the Price Waterhouse people gave Warren and Faye the wrong card?? WTH? So happy for Moonlight, but that was surreal! ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905/120 "2017-02-27T05:17:14Z")
But it’s not his fault; somehow he wound up with the Best Actress card! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscars-2017-thread/780905.md?page=7)