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shadowkatWell so far so good.
It's very different. They did best original screenplay, and best adapted screenplay first.
*Emerald Fennel - Promising Young Woman, as I expected, won best original screenplay. I'd have given it to her. [I saw the movie - the dialogue is biting and the script is rather good.]
[What's interesting is how Regina King is introducing each person - telling us who these people are. And showing them from across the world, if they aren't in LA.]
* The screenwriters for the Father won. (I can't watch the Father - it's about Althzheimers through the point of view of those suffering it. And that's my Dad, so I can't. Too painful.}
The Oscars are kind of an abbreviated version, with no major performances or hosts, no real fanfare. Instead of red carpet, they did a spotlight - with the songs performed then.
Mother: Are you watching the Oscars?
ME: Uh no.
Mother: Instead of the red carpet they are doing the musical numbers.
ME: Damn. I missed it
Mother: Sorry, should have called you earlier. Oh I watched Sound of Metal today.
ME: What did you think?
Mother: It was extremely good. I enjoyed it.
Me: I loved it.
Mother: So did your brother. He couldn't get into Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Me: Yeah, I struggled with Trial of Chicago 7 which he loved. Has he seen Promising Young Woman?
Mother: no. But he troubles finding the same one you were looking for, Minari.
Me: Yeah - that I couldn't find it either.
[See? My family is into discussing movies.]
Now they are doing Best Foreign Film...
*Another Round - the film with the guy from Hannibal (Mads Mikleson - if you are a fan, you should watch Another Round for him), that everyone loves? I predicted it probably would, so not surprised. It's the Denmark film. It's about letting go of control - and features four men who just stay drunk.
[Most thought Que Vadis would get it.]
Ah finally, Best Supporting Actor.
[This is interesting - it has the most black men nominated for Best Supporting Actor in history. 3 people.]
* Daniel Kaluuya won - for Judas and the Black Messiah. I love this actor. He's so powerful. (Although I could not get into the movie at all.)
Ooooh...The West Side Story - Steven Spielberg version looks really cool. They released the trailer just now. It looks good. (Although, it's going to be hard to beat George Chakris, Rita Morena, and Russ Tambolyn from the original.)
Best Makeup and Hair Styling
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom got best hair and makeup (well deserved)
Best Costume
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth (who figures out the costumes by what people do with the clothes when they go to bed at night.)
Best Director
*Chloe Zhao won for Nomadland - history making, first Asian female director to win. "Everywhere I've gone, I've looked and found the goodness in people and the place." That was Nomadland...actually.
Best Sound
* YAY - Sound of Metal won - which it should, that movie did things with sound that amazed me.
[So far I'm agreeing with who is winning these awards, that's kind of rare. I usually don't agree for 3/4 of the awards. In fact I groaned through the last four or five awards...with few exceptions. ]
Best Live Action Short
[I've not seen them. I'm not a fan of short films. But the Oscars do draw attention to them.]
* Two Distant Strangers
Speech: "Yesterday, three people were killed by police, today three people have been killed by police, and tomorrow three people will be killed by police. James Baldwin once said the worst thing people can do is to be indifferent to other people's pain. So we ask you please, don't be indifferent."
Movies, television shows, art, music and books - stop us from being indifferent - they take us inside the pain, the joy, another's mind, another's views, often different than our own... and if well done? Make us feel it.
Animated Short
*If Anything Happens, I love You
[I wish they'd show the films, they used to - it's hard to know without seeing them.]
Animated Feature Film
* Soul - (YAY)
...
Okay I'm losing interest. It's and I'm not up to staying up until 11.
It's very different. They did best original screenplay, and best adapted screenplay first.
*Emerald Fennel - Promising Young Woman, as I expected, won best original screenplay. I'd have given it to her. [I saw the movie - the dialogue is biting and the script is rather good.]
[What's interesting is how Regina King is introducing each person - telling us who these people are. And showing them from across the world, if they aren't in LA.]
* The screenwriters for the Father won. (I can't watch the Father - it's about Althzheimers through the point of view of those suffering it. And that's my Dad, so I can't. Too painful.}
The Oscars are kind of an abbreviated version, with no major performances or hosts, no real fanfare. Instead of red carpet, they did a spotlight - with the songs performed then.
Mother: Are you watching the Oscars?
ME: Uh no.
Mother: Instead of the red carpet they are doing the musical numbers.
ME: Damn. I missed it
Mother: Sorry, should have called you earlier. Oh I watched Sound of Metal today.
ME: What did you think?
Mother: It was extremely good. I enjoyed it.
Me: I loved it.
Mother: So did your brother. He couldn't get into Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Me: Yeah, I struggled with Trial of Chicago 7 which he loved. Has he seen Promising Young Woman?
Mother: no. But he troubles finding the same one you were looking for, Minari.
Me: Yeah - that I couldn't find it either.
[See? My family is into discussing movies.]
Now they are doing Best Foreign Film...
*Another Round - the film with the guy from Hannibal (Mads Mikleson - if you are a fan, you should watch Another Round for him), that everyone loves? I predicted it probably would, so not surprised. It's the Denmark film. It's about letting go of control - and features four men who just stay drunk.
[Most thought Que Vadis would get it.]
Ah finally, Best Supporting Actor.
[This is interesting - it has the most black men nominated for Best Supporting Actor in history. 3 people.]
* Daniel Kaluuya won - for Judas and the Black Messiah. I love this actor. He's so powerful. (Although I could not get into the movie at all.)
Ooooh...The West Side Story - Steven Spielberg version looks really cool. They released the trailer just now. It looks good. (Although, it's going to be hard to beat George Chakris, Rita Morena, and Russ Tambolyn from the original.)
Best Makeup and Hair Styling
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom got best hair and makeup (well deserved)
Best Costume
* Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth (who figures out the costumes by what people do with the clothes when they go to bed at night.)
Best Director
*Chloe Zhao won for Nomadland - history making, first Asian female director to win. "Everywhere I've gone, I've looked and found the goodness in people and the place." That was Nomadland...actually.
Best Sound
* YAY - Sound of Metal won - which it should, that movie did things with sound that amazed me.
[So far I'm agreeing with who is winning these awards, that's kind of rare. I usually don't agree for 3/4 of the awards. In fact I groaned through the last four or five awards...with few exceptions. ]
Best Live Action Short
[I've not seen them. I'm not a fan of short films. But the Oscars do draw attention to them.]
* Two Distant Strangers
Speech: "Yesterday, three people were killed by police, today three people have been killed by police, and tomorrow three people will be killed by police. James Baldwin once said the worst thing people can do is to be indifferent to other people's pain. So we ask you please, don't be indifferent."
Movies, television shows, art, music and books - stop us from being indifferent - they take us inside the pain, the joy, another's mind, another's views, often different than our own... and if well done? Make us feel it.
Animated Short
*If Anything Happens, I love You
[I wish they'd show the films, they used to - it's hard to know without seeing them.]
Animated Feature Film
* Soul - (YAY)
...
Okay I'm losing interest. It's and I'm not up to staying up until 11.
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Date: 2021-04-26 01:26 pm (UTC)I haven't seen a movie in a theater for ages. I don't watch recent TV much, and don't miss it. I remember when I was young, we visited my grandmother and I was surprised she didn't have a clue about things in recent entertainment, names of younger actors, of recent TV shows, of recent movies. I probably ignored a lot all along, but now like with grandma, it's all a blur I don't have much interest in.
It's not that I have no interests, it's just that my passion for movies and TV is just about gone. Things like repair bills, insurance payments and property taxes are a lot more in my mind all year than what's on in prime-time!
The only thing worse than watching an awards show on TV is attending one when you have no connection to anyone nominated. You can't duck out to the kitchen for a snack while the award for best who-gives-damn-about-THAT-job performance is being given. You can't read a magazine while waiting for something you've heard of to come up.
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Date: 2021-04-26 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-26 03:51 pm (UTC)You couldn't understand a few years ago when I was telling you I couldn't find anything I wanted to watch on TV. I was changing, you weren't. That kind of entertainment just isn't drawing me in any more. I think you still can't understand that age can change you and change the things you want to spend time on, when it seems you have all the time in the world to do exactly what you liked to do when you were much younger. If I hear about a movie, good or bad, often enough, I may watch it if things fall into place. But, I have lost interest in going out of my way to watch movies, or in sitting down watch TV all evening every night like I once did. I watch some sports, but not nearly as as much, and what sports I watch I don't watch as carefully as I once did. The things I do every day likely would bore you to tears, but I like them and they keep me going.
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Date: 2021-04-26 04:03 pm (UTC)I just don't understand the compulsion to keep tellinng me you don't like to watch tv or don't have the time to waste on television and films, when I'm posting about something I enjoy? I don't do that to you about the things you enjoy in your journal.
At noon, I discussed the Oscars with my 78 year old mother - who watched the whole thing, and does love to watch movies. She can't move around. She's trying to keep positive. And this is something we can discuss that has nothing to do with health or other painful issues, like my Dad.
I was sharing with others in the hopes to find like-minded souls who liked movies. I don't need the negativity right now.
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Date: 2021-04-26 06:20 pm (UTC)