Oscars 2017

Warren Beatty said that the card said "Emma Stone, Lala Land" so I think it was just a production error.

All in all it was a decent show, but all anyone is gonna remember is that mixup.

So basically, expect a massive influx of memes tomorrow?

HOLY GODDAMN SHIT THAT SWERVE

Moonlight turned out to be the real goddamn winner for Best Picture!

@Hamburger Time: The La La Land guys held up the actual card and "Moonlight" was the actual winner.

edited 26th Feb '17 9:38:39 PM by higherbrainpattern

I am not upset that Kubo lost best animated movie because Zootopia deserved that, but I am upset it lost best visual effects. A giant skeleton puppet should automatically win everything.

Moonlight and La La Land, reminds me of Steve Harvey on Miss Universe 2015.

John Travolta is grateful that no one will bring up Adele Dazeem anymore.

And Moonlight wins the Best Picture because of course.

Man, I feel so sorry for Chazelle. Hey, at least he got the honor of being the youngest Oscar winner for the Best Director.

I'm already seeing "La La Land got the popular vote" memes.

Also a surprising amount of bitterness over Suicide Squad (one amusing comparison photo between it and Star Trek Beyond showed an exotic alien background character next to Harley with smudged make-up, completely ignoring that the better comparison would be with Killer Croc).

Star Trek beyond did have the better make-up. The one in SS was stupid. Nobody really liked it.

Sure.

They should've been disqualified for making Joker into a god damn juggalo but other than that I was impressed by crocs makeup.

Pleasantly surprised by Moonlight's win. Great self restraint, Academy!

The other thing which kind of bothers me was the decision for best foreign movie...it was clearly a political decision to pick the Iranian movie instead of Toni Erdmann, the movie which more or less won all prices beforehand.

Whoo boy.

Suicide Squad is only the second superhero movie to get an Oscar. That's so weird, because there's no denying that it sucks.

Like how Pearl Harbor won an Oscar for sound design. Everyone knows it sucked.

The overall quality of a movie usually doesn't matter in technical categories. There are a lot of shitty movies that take home awards for having good special effects or sound mixing.

I wouldn't mind SS winning for best make-up if is had been overall actually that good. But I honestly think that it disqualified itself from the category the moment it wrote the word "damaged" on Joker's forehead.

That's not makeup so much as the character's design though. The way I see it, makeup is a technical category, right? So as long as the damaged tattoo is competently done, it's a positive, not a negative, right? Genuinely asking, by the way.

... that said, I don't think it should have won because their shining example, Killer Croc, kinda looked like ass in the movie. He didn't look like a looming croc man, he looked like... well, a regular dude with a weird face. It'd be like The Amazing Spider Man winning special effects for The Lizard.

So, yeah. Ecstatic that Moonlight (2016) won. Genuinely surprised, though. La La Land seemed a shoo-in. But Moonlight was fantastic, and while the mix-up is... confusing... I am pretty sure that if it happened to any movie but La La Land I'd just be sad. But since La La Land is taking in, you know, all the money ever and definitely being overrated (not calling it bad, but more talking about how nothing could live up to the hype of it) makes it basically an Acceptable Target to me.

edited 27th Feb '17 8:49:16 AM by Larkmarn

La La Land was my second favorite this past year, after Arrival, though I'll confess I didn't see Moonlight.

It's good that some people appreciate Moonlight, but... Why the bitterness over it winning? I know it seems like they played the race card, but have you actually seen it? It was the best movie, along with Manchester By The Sea. Arrival is a close third.

The weird thing is, it didn't play the race card. The character was Black alright, but it wasn't even a movie about race. At it's core it's just a movie about a guy growing up and how people deal with the hand they're dealt. Which is why I liked it so much. Having something resembling a subtle take on that is damn impressive.

But I'm not surprised at bitterness. La La Land was popular. Moonlight wasn't. And on-paper it seems like blatant Oscar bait, and since relatively few people have seen it, their perspective that "well, this is Oscar-bait" is the beginning and the end of most people's opinion on the movie.

edited 27th Feb '17 8:03:07 AM by Larkmarn

That and seeing the movie.

I saw Hell or High Water, Arrival, and Manchester by the Sea to prep for the Oscars, but I was only aware of Moonlight on VOD fairly recently.

For all the year's numerous warts, did you know that the African American Film Critics' Association declared 2016 the best year in history for African American cinema?

I did not.

Oh, an in a less contentious opinion... I am excited Moonlight won, but if Mahershala Ali didn't win "Best Supporting Actor" I would probably have rioted. The dude fucking killed it in that role.