Is it checks and balances? I assumed the reason for the two sets of envelopes was because the presenter might enter from stage left or stage right, and this allows them to collect the envelope either way. What they should do is to communicate with each other which envelopes have been given out, so the counterpart can put away the unused duplicate.
Academy Awards lists wrong person as dead in memorial tribute :smack::smack::smack:
I don’t see how anyone could think of Moonlight as being an “activism/message” movie unless simply having a gay Black character makes it so. There is nothing about it that says “racism is bad” or “gay people deserve equal rights.”
It’s like no one is saying that Lion is a “message/activism” movie because “child poverty is bad.”
That’s what I saw, too. I really didn’t come away with the sense I’d been preached to. I came away feeling I had been watching a brilliantly filmed story about a person. At the end of the movie I was emotionally invested in the characters, not a message.
By way of comparison, “Hidden Figures,” now, that movie was a-preachin’. Which isn’t to say it isn’t a fine movie; it certainly is, with outstanding acting from every quarter. But it was a Movie With A Message from the first frame to the last. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s a message and story that should be heard, but it was in your face and simplistic.
What really strikes me about that clip is how short the thank you’s are (along with Sammy handling things beautifully).
I hope I’m not the first to say this (anywhere, not just here): I have to give serious props to the producers of La La Land. It takes a lot of class and dignity to handle what happened as gracefully as they did. Well done, guys.
It’s a good but not great movie to me. It’s definitely more of an ‘arty’ film (with some really good cinematography). And the message was fairly subtle. As referenced by others, it’s more of a character study / coming of age.
I personally think Manchester By the Sea is going to be the film remembered in 20 years as the cream of this year’s crop. Moonlight will definitely stand out though.
Makes sense to me.
“It’s La La Land AND Moonlight!”
At least PwC didn’t come up with that picture, and Warren Beatty didn’t announce it.
That and other posts here are reassuring, thanks. I have just seen so much stuff like this tweet.
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Manchester By the Sea on Amazon Prime in early May. I have liked Casey Affleck since a little known movie he was in with Matt Damon called Gerry; and Kenneth Lonergan’s previous film Margaret is one of my all-time favorites.
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Well, except for that producer who knew they had lost but took advantage of the confusion to get a little speech in anyway. That was kind of shady.
I thought the message was “Google Earth is the most amazing thing ever!”
Does B’nai Brith have an award for Mensch of the Year?
If these’s one thing I learned from this fiasco it’s that humans make horrible eye witnesses.
I don’t know how many people swore up and down that Warren Beatty read the wrong winner and only changed their story when watching the replay to see that it was Dunaway that said “LaLa Land!”
:dubious: How did he know they had lost? Do winners and nominees know in advance who has won (and are sworn, on pain of death, to remain silent until the ceremony?)
You could see the stagehands (with headsets) spreading the word, so he knew (he even says “We lost”) and wanted to grab those few seconds left to make his acknowledgments. Here’s a play-by-play video annotation.
Just before the end
I felt myself trying to mentally force Chiron to say something! Speak! Be courageous! YOU CAN DO IT! He was so silent
I can’t remember getting that invested in a long time.
This list omits Spotlight which won Best Picture last year with only one other Oscar–Original Screenplay.
Based on what you’ve said, you may be well past Oscar-level film appreciation, but go see Moonlight. Both as incentive and a warning, there are wonderful miracles of filmcraft in this film, but also unfortunate Hollywood-style miracles in the story.
Yup, great video. That guy, the one speaking French, knew he was straight up grifting, stealing time on national TV, but he just boldly did it anyway. I wonder what the repercussions have been, will be, for him among his peers? Saying your speech and then adding “we lost” doesn’t make it right. He was still consciously being more part of the problem than the solution.
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Hmmm…that has my curiosity going. Thanks, I will definitely give it a chance.
2016 Spotlight
2017 Moonlight
2018 Gaslight ?
Maybe Gaslight: the Sean Spicer story 
If you watch the videocarefully he was called to speak and said no. The whole situation was so absurd anyway, it was best to roll with it. I don’t think he did anything wrong. BTW I laughed at the contrast between the second guy yammering on about dreams and the chaos unfolding behind him. Has anyone identified the guy with the headphones ? I think he was the person who should have intervened way sooner. I have re-watched the video at least half a dozen times and find it endlessly fascinating. I think I could easily watch a full-length documentary about this episode.