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. 
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
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Sing
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.
?? Citizen Kane won 1 Oscar. No Country For Old Men won 4. Fargo won 2. Bridge of Spies, which they wrote, won 1.
Kimmel is… bland. Like, really bland.
I assumed the reference was to how many for the evening, not career…
CINEMATOGRAPHY
La La Land
John Legend, performing “The Rainbow Connection” with the sheet music upside down.
I hate every single person in that Adidas commercial, individually and collectively.
Wasn’t immediately obvious I suppose. Coen films have the same problem.
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
La La Land
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“City Of Stars,” La La Land
You’d think a modern composer could learn to speed-rap a whole bunch of names.
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…
Wait. did I miss Bowie, Rickman and Prince in there?
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.
That was a very well done In Memorioum segment. I somehow missed that Abbas Kiarostami had died. Damn.
I get Coen Brothers films. I still don’t get your post.
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.
David Bowie and Alan Rickman both died in January 2016, so they may have been mentioned in last year’s ceremonies.
My apologies for throwing out my opinion here, but “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” is the better song of the two.