Searchlight does it again: Slumdog, 12yrs a slave, Birdman, The Shape of Water, and now Nomadland. Smaller studios, including Searchlight, NEON (Parasite) and A24 (Moonlight) have proven that “smaller” films with lower budgets can earn respect.
@@virgiliomartinezerickson8044 yes. Disney bought out Fox’s motion picture entities, including their smaller artistically oriented studio (Fox Searchlight) in 2019. Many of us were concerned that they dilute the art for more “crowd pleasing” films, but Nomadland eased those concerns.
Biggest tragedy is announcing Best Picture first before the acting awards because they were expecting Chadwick Boseman to win only for the voters to spoil their plan. It is still the fault of the producers though for even changing the order of announcement.
I actually liked the Best Picture before the acting awards better. McDormand winning Best Actress would have spoiled Nomadland’s win, since it had lost Screenplay and Cinematography. But they should’ve had Best Actress for last. At least all nominees were there to accept the award.
It made the event very anticlimactic. If you're going to break a tradition there should be a valid reason you're doing so. Otherwise, leave it be. With Hopkins not even on Zoom to accept the award it just ended so awkwardly.
Funnily enough though, I think Oscar Expert is 100% right, they wanted to end that way (especially since Best Pic was super predicatble) but ended up looking silly when Hopkins won, especially since he wasn't there.
I have to admit, I din't see Frances win comming, I thought it's Carey vs Viola. I'm sad for Chadwick and Carey, but I'm happy for Hopkins and Frances two absolute legends.
Come on, if Chadwick wouldn’t have died he would barely been nominated. It’s ridiculous how people want him to win because he passed. And Viola and chadwick was the two winners that everyone wanted because they are black. Viola and Chadwick would not have wanted to win because of their skin colour either
@@ihavegreatcomments8532 Literally no one is saying that he should’ve won just because he died. He gave an amazing performance and people believed he should’ve been rewarded for that. Hopkins also gave a great performance. Literally nothing about OP’s comment warranted you to say that, yet you had to be salty about it.
@@ihavegreatcomments8532 Stop pulling the race card. That's such a weird argument to make. By that you could say Frances and Hopkins won because they're white which gave them the extra edge considering most of their peers in the academy are white. Davis and Boseman did an amazing job and in my personal opinion were better. Frances getting a third oscar...really? I honestly thought the academy was gonna pull a Ledger-was that also just because he's white? Seriously, stop pulling the race card.
@@ihavegreatcomments8532 Viola is a fantastic actress and has nothing to with her skin colour. She transformed herself as Ma. If she won, she would of deserved it. If Chadwick won, he would of deserved it too. Sorry if I have empathy and sympathy for the dead and for the struggle. Just by the fact he kept acting and giving his all while having cancer is enough to deserve something because of all the hard work and pain he went through. Why shouldn't we praise hard working actors? Every time people of colour wins or get nominated, they always put the race card and yelling "Hollywood so woke", but when white people win, they stay quiet. Such hypocrites.
@@OrterMinat I disagree with him on Viola, but let's be real, if Chadwick didn't die, Best Actor would have been between Hopkins and Ahmed. Chadwick still would have gotten nominated though.
This late career peak for Anthony Hopkins is so cool. I thank his amazing role on Westworld a few years ago; reminded the casting world he is still here to bring incredible performances to screen.
Soderbergh: “The Oscars will feel like a movie!!” In Memoriam: Fast & Furious Oscar Song Trivia: Yorgos Lanthimos Frances’s speech: Wolfwalkers Best Actor: Monty Python
First the Moonlight/La La Land debacle, then Green Book, now the botched Boseman tribute... The Academy just loves making every other year end with a shitstorm, don't they?
It was so weird that they changed the order and did Picture before acting. So cringey when Boseman didn’t win at the end and they just ended the show. But Hopkins released a great little speech this morning.
Boseman should not have won, he wasn’t even the second best. The only reason that people thought he should’ve won is because he passed away this year. If he was still alive he would not been predictes to even win, arguably even nominated
@@ihavegreatcomments8532 I mean whoever wins these things is subjective. Hopkins winning is not shocking per se but I loved Boseman’s performance and it was definitely a great one for many people. I do think his performance would have been here even if he was alive, given how strongly Ma Rainey performed in general
I'm very happy for Anthony Hopkins, his work in the father was easily one of the beat leading actor roles of the last 5 years. That being said, it was OBVIOUS they put actor in a leading role last to hype up the audience for a Chadwick win. The in memoriam part was shortened, his family was there and the award changed its usual order, like, EVERYTHING was indicative of Chadwick winning. The fact that the academy passed on the chance to award Boseman for his last work, but still capitalized on his image (even gifting an NFT of boseman to guests) is just horrible. At the end, Anthony did a great job but if we're talking how academy politics work, he already had his oscar. This was Boseman's. The whole ending was just proof they clearly weren't prepared for a scenario where he didn't win.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I get people are happy for Hopkins win..but the way they profited off of Boseman's death and made it seem like they were going the Ledger route needs to be talked about-its gross.
It’s been said in another comment thread: the people coordinating the show probably did this thinking Boseman was going to win. They definitely didn’t know Hopkins was going to take it. Sure, it backfired, but you can’t blame them for betting on Boseman after his Critics’ Choice, Globes and SAG wins. And well sure, Hopkins had already won his Oscar, but he also gave the best performance of the year (by far) and the Academy Awards what they think was the best of the year (even though they might not get it right sometimes), not what would look pretty to award.
I’m very happy for Anthony but I imagine that was very disappointing for Chadwick’s family. Everybody bought into the hype, including the show producers. However, the Academy has no obligation to award an actor for his “last work.” It’s not a tribute award. They’re supposed to award the best performance. Frances had two Oscars prior to winning last night and she deserves them all. I’m happy the Academy listened to their hearts and weren’t swayed by the politics.
@@leonardozumaeta4354 i feel the same. i wish the people who coordinated everything wouldn’t have tried to do that. like they don’t know for sure that that would happen! it was a bad decision because now it looks really bad for everyone involved
@@flowerfairies4685 Yes it does suck. They might even had made that decision before BAFTAs and expected Chadwick to win there as well and just sweep the awards season. Still, they shouldn’t have done that and gone for the usual route. Really sad this happened, and well they didn’t even get a speech from Hopkins to end the ceremony with since he wasn’t even there. Poor planning overall
I do like that both Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand won purely based on merit. Previous winners, no campaign, no narrative. And yet they pevailed.
The winning song is from a best picture nominee, and more respected than Chicago 7, with 6 nominations as well, but no winnings. The other contenders are from movies less appreciated by the Academy. And finally, it wasnt a clear favorite song to win, so the movie factor counts again
@@josecal8081 True but I also accounted the precursor wins when I made my final predictions. Nothing bad with this song really I am happy either way. I just didn’t consider a best picture nomination would affect this category. Like last year Rocketman got it and that was like the only nomination and win.
Frances such a worthy winner. People don't get how difficult it is to play against non-actors, and still produce such moving scenes. She carried the whole film.
Me: Hmm, the Oscars aren't so bad this year The Oscars in the last 15 minutes: LOL! One sec... I'm happy with the winners but maaaaan, they messed up the whole show awarding Best Actor last -_-
Anthony Hopkins undoubtably had the greatest performance of the year, it wasn’t even close for me. It was genuinely the best acting I’ve seen in years (from new films, I watch a lot of old too). Probably the best performance since 2012, where two transcendent performances faced off- with DDL in Lincoln, and Phoenix in The Master. Hopkins was equally transcendent; an absurdly ambitious and beyond masterful performance. His second Academy Award truly couldn’t be more deserved. Yet, the Oscars really soured his victory by milking Chadwick Boseman’s passing. I feel so sorry for Boseman’s wife who had to attend the ceremony, get a gift bag with her deceased husband’s face in it, wait for the FINAL category, giving her hope that he would win, and then let her down. Ending the show on an uncomfortable moment because the Oscars decided to make it the final category and wouldn’t even let Anthony Hopkins zoom call in to be apart of the event and potentially give a speech. Hopkins, an 83 year old, on holiday in Wales to visit his father’s grave, at greater risk of contracting covid, also already uncomfortable with attending award shows; possibly in part due to having asperger’s... Was made to look like the villain because of the Oscars’ repulsive rules and decisions for the ceremony. Hopkins, Chadwick, his grieving family, and everyone watching deserved much better than this. Hopefully Hopkins can enjoy his very deserved award and that Boseman’s family are satisfied with at least his In Memoriam inclusion. But what a mess.
exactly! chloe zhao could finally show her achievements this season but nooo it was overshadowed because of that abrupt ending. nomadland could finally have this momentum in the end but for some reason they decided to change it and now people would be talking about the ending but not nomadland itself. i feel really sorry for her :(
Hopkins totally deserves his award, nobody should hate on him, I also wanted Boseman too win but Hopkins was as deserving as him, the only thing that makes me mad is the way in which Soderbergh ruined the ceremony with the passing and the order of the categories, specially best picture, best actor and the In memoriam, was awful and so disrespectful.
Overall I'm happy with winners but the show itself was kind of a disaster. No clips and then this weird order which lead to this ending what I don't even know how to describe.
@@kaigraw8847 be we know the different aspects, we watched the movies. It's more moving, sentimental and intimate when someone talk about the movies/performances from their personal perspective.
The main issue here is that the majority of viewers actually haven’t seen every movie nominated for each category, and showing clips from each is a great way to highlight the work of nominees for all the viewers who may not be familiar with each film. Especially for the categories like costumes, editing, visual effects, sound, etc.
I don't want to get into arguments about whether Boseman should have won over Hopkins. I don't know enough about either performance, I've just heard that both deserve it. Instead, I want to ask an honest question to whoever arranged the show last night... ...IF BOSEMAN WASN'T GOING TO WIN AND YOU WEREN'T GOING TO HONOR HIM, WHY DID YOU ORDER THE AWARDS THAT WAY AND END ON A FACEPLANT OF A PRESENTATION?
And have his family there like they were going to receive his award on his behalf? they're profiting off of black death-i really wish someone had the balls and discernment to see this but they're all way too excited because grandpa won
"Speak Now" was never an obvious winner LOL. If they didn't love One Night in Miami... to give it a BP nomination, why would they award it for Song? I think it was always Judas to lose this category given how much support the Academy gave it.
They thought Chadwick was the winner They probably had a tribute for him that they planned to play and it would have ended on an emotional note and then they were like oh fuck it’s over now okay goodbye and goodnight
The choice of showing clips for some and not others was definitely weird. It is nice that we get to see the faces of these people in the technical categories who work in film, but to also not show off their work is also bizarre.
You guys were such a fun discovery this year! Thanks for all of the raging insanity and the earnest enthusiasm! Evoking the passion for film that we all wish that we were surrounded by more frequently.
Frances McDormand gives a master class on the truth that acting is re-acting. Was super surprised I got 20 out of 23 :) Missed Best Song, Best Actor (I almost went w/Hopkins - should have trusted my instinct) and Cinematography.
I don't think Frances McDormand deserved the Oscar for Fargo and I don't think she deserved to win for Nomadland. Andra Day or Carey Mulligan should have won.
I love that Hopkins won because I love The Father but I'm just still so stunned that Boseman didn't win and McDormand now has her 3rd career Oscar and the only actress alive with the most Oscars for best actress.
I am not complaining about Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand winning. Although, I am genuinely sad that Carey Mulligan lost, at least, it's Frances. As for Hopkins, I said it all year long ever since Sundance last year. It was objectively THE best male performance of the year and of the decade (okay, maybe the last two decades) and Hopkins is going to get his second Oscar for that performance. I am not going to say more, but there's no robbery, no upset, no nothing and it's so rare that the Academy gets it right in the major categories and they definitely got it right this time. No more arguments, end of the fucking conversation! stop whining people.
Couldn’t agree with all of that more. Anthony Hopkins’ performance was transcendently great. It truly couldn’t be more deserved. I think people are just annoyed that the ceremony structured the categories to milk Boseman’s passing. It was disrespectful.
In fact, the BAFTAs predicted ALL of them with the exception of Cinematography, which I loved that they didn’t because I really was rooting for Mank at the Oscars
Loved Carey’s performance, film as a whole needed more love. Was ground breaking just the default female perspective put Emerald Fennel on my forever watch list.
The baftas are really good at predicting the Oscar winners! Although I vividly remember Carey Mulligan and Jennifer Lawrence winning bafta and losing Oscars so I guess they're not always correct
It can be a wild card sometimes. BAFTA picked Marion Cortillard and Olivia Colman as Best Actress and they went on to win the Oscar, they also picked Emmanuelle Riva and Imelda Staunton as Best Actress but both end up eventually losing at the Oscars.
When Frances won i was so happy that i run all across the living room. When Hopkins won i was shocked, pure silence for two minutes. He deserved it and i wanted him to win, but putting that award for last made everyone asume that Chadwick was gonna win
Been rooting for Carey since the Globes & the night before the Oscars, i watched clips from PYW and other movies. Accepted the fact that Carey might loose to Viola cause i thought Academy would finally honor another woman of colour (and since Carey's performance is not the type Academy tend to root for; Glenn Close's Fatal Attraction, Rosamund Pike's Gone Girl, etc) But i'm still proud of Frances getting 2 Oscars in like 5 minutes 👏👏 Also shout out to Anthony Hopkins. His 2 Oscars are richly deserved.
I just feel sorry for Chadwick's family. Anthony Hopkins although deserving barely cared whether winning or not, instead you can sense the emptiness that people around Chadwick will feel today.
I'm sure they're fine, heck they weren't bothered by Hopkins' winning. It's never an obsession for Chadwick to win an Oscar like his brother says. Hopkins did pay tribute to Chadwick which I'm sure his family is proud for that
As someone who’s favorite movie this year was Promising Young Woman, I’m surprised Carey was even in the top 3 guesses to win for so many people. Yes, she did a great job but it doesn’t seem like the type of film or performance the Oscars would usually give the time of day. It’s great she at least got the nomination. She’s been doing great work for years and barely ever gets the recognition she deserves.
Wow what a nice surprise. I am more shocked about Frances than Hopkins, I thought they're going to go with Viola Davis (would've been my pick). It's crazy now Frances is a four times Academy Award winner, (3 lead actress is insane)! I mean even Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep only have 2 leading, the only living person tied with her is Daniel Day Lewis, and even Ingrid Bergman also only had two leading. It's fascinating too that two of her wins, Fargo and Nomadland weren't unanimous, her Fargo win was unexpected, she even lost comedy musical GG! (not taking it away from her). I think only Three Billboard she swept. She is officially the new Oscar darling, bye Meryl, especially after snubbed by GG for the Prom, Meryl may not get another nomination, and who knows, maybe Frances will win a 4th acting Oscar before her? I think she will get nominated again for Macbeth, she'll probably at least surpass the 10 nominations mark by the end of her career.
I wanted Viola to win but I would've been happy with any of the 4 contenders winning honestly, they were all phenomenal. The only two surprises for me were Song (which I was extremely happy about) and Cinematography (which I wasn't very happy about). Very happy The Father won Adapted Screenplay and Actor because it absolutely deserved both awards
If any of the Picture nominees were going to get shut out, I knew it would be that one. It’s actually kind of laughable that some people were predicting it would win Picture
Great this si over now, i enjoyed the ride, But I won't care about the Oscars anymore, Thank God I realize how meaningless this is, But I enjoyed the ride at least.
Really happy with these wins for the most part and I won $1013 so I definitely can't complain. Loved Another Round but I still think Quo Vadis Aida deserved it.
You guys are awesome you entertain the hell out of me you guys are so knowledgeable about movies thank you also I think chadwick boseman was an amazing actor but I'm very excited that anthony hopkins won it was so well deserved 👏
Delighted the Academy went with the best performances rather than external reasons. Hopkins’s performance was phenomenal, and glad for the Adapted Screenplay win too. McDormand for sure carried Nomadland, no way it would have won Best Picture without her.
Seriously, I enjoyed your reactions way more than the show itself - the show kind of ended with a ‘thump’ to me - why in hell did they place the actors category AFTER the Best Picture category- and why in double hell did they give the Best Director at the very beginning of the show and telegraph the end that Nomadland is the best picture winner ???!!! Bizarre!! I just don’t get it? But enjoyed your reactions!!! Thanks guys
Is 2022 going to be the most competitive year ever? All the big blockbusters from 2020 that were expected to be the big award contenders were postponed (don't look up, last night in soho, french dispatch, west side story, dune, in the heights, babylon, the batman, candyman, the green knight, the last duel, no time to die, avatar 2, matrix 4, top gun 2, and so on..the next oscars is going to be insane!
Hooray for Nomadland! Here are some eye-roll inducing Oscar predicitions I have read during this season: - Minari taking Best Picture due to the rise of Anti-Asian hate crimes: No, an entertainment award does not solve structural racism (public policy does) and no minority asks for a last-minute pity award to feel better about themselves. Also, if the Oscars cared so much about hate crimes against minorities, black films would have won every damn year. If racism is a trend to you, you are privileged and can fuck right off. - Chicago 7 taking Best Picture because it is a “crowdpleaser”: What crowd? You and your mom don’t count. - Nomadland not taking Best Picture, look what happened to Brokeback Mountain: Brokeback Mountain was controversial and had a well-documented anti-gay backlash from actual voters. Nomadland never had a problem like this. - Nomadland getting a Best Sound nomination because one of the sound mixers just died: Death bumps are not a thing, especially not in the technical categories. If Nomadland is not known to be award-worthy in Sound, a pity award does not help nor is requested by anyone, especially the loved ones of the person who died. - Andra Day taking Best Actress because Golden Globes have predicted the Best Actress Oscar winner more accurately than any other awards body: Golden Globes have TEN damn slots for Actor and Actress which is 100% more opportunities to get it right than BAFTA and SAG. I am not into math, but I can count. - Chadwick Boseman taking Best Actor, because the Academy is afraid of a backlash: In 93 (!) years of Oscars, 4 black actors have won Best Actor and 1 black actress won Best Actress. They evidently have zero problems nominating and awarding white actors over POC actors any year, any day, any time. Also, Green Book which won in a year of Roma, Blackkklansman and Black Panther says hi. - Frances McDormand not taking Best Actress because it is too soon: Christoph Waltz won his recent one after 3 years and Mahershala Ali his after 2 years. No one yelled “too soon” then. Sexism at its finest. Also, looking back at any win, who gives two shits about what year a great performance happened. A great performance is a great performance, that’s it. The Academy is not a charity that is obligated to award people who never won or won too few times in the public‘s perception.
I always think it's strange when you guys talk about certain precursors having good track records for predicting specific acting categories over others. I'm not saying the pattern isn't there, but logically there shouldn't be any correlation. Best Actor and Best Actress are effectively the same category from an artistic/industry standpoint - i.e there's no difference between a male performance and a female performance. So there's no logical reason why BAFTA (or any precursor) would be better at predicting Actress vs Actor, or Supporting Actor vs Actress. The predictability of the race is totally luck of the draw, starting from scratch every year based on the pool of contenders, so any pattern is likely to be a total coincidence. The only theory I could MAYBE see is if there's a tendency for Hollywood to provide more roles for women/men that are easily-predicted Oscar roles.
I challenge you to find a film that had this big of a sweep like Nomadland and I also have a feeling that this will not happen again for a long time: 1. Golden Lion 2. TIFF People’s Choice 3. Golden Globe 4. Critics’ Choice 5. PGA 6. BAFTA 7. Indie Spirit 8. Oscar I know 12 Years a Slave had all of this except Golden Lion but hey if the producers/distributor decide to have the world premiere at a festival with no awards (Telluride) - not my problem 🤷🏻♂
What do people think is the next role that Mulligan could be nominated for? I have added her to the list of actresses I want to see win. The other three are Michelle Williams, Amy Adams and Saiorise Ronan.
14:03 See also: Sean Penn winning Best Actor over Mickey Rourke in 2009. Milk was nominated for Best Picture, The Wrestler was not. Being in a Best Picture nominated film really helps you
