Strawberry5

Star Trek: The Original Series.

sum1

As my last post.

Strawberry5

The Big Bang Theory.

wickedrum

Storm Ciara

Strawberry5

Star Trek: Discovery.

PhoenixRising

Same stuff.

wickedrum

Oscars Red Carpet

Strawberry5

Coach Trip.

sum1

Why was it red? Was there blood spilled over the Oscar choices?

wickedrum

there were sure some unhappy people

sum1

Anybody in particular?

wickedrum

Sam Mendez, some other directors. Because Parasite won almost everything away from them

sum1

2017 probably should have won. Or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I won't be seeing Parasite. No interest. I will be seeing 2017. And I have seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -it has some of the best climactic scenes of any film I've seen. That guy getting his balls chewed off by the dog while Brad Pitt watches stoned and out of it. So funny. I'm thrilled Pitt got his Oscar finally. He should have gotten one for Fight Club back in 2000, but they gave it to that little paedophile Spacey instead. For playing a paedophile.

And can I say how angry I am that the best actress Oscar went to Zellweger? She's an inferior actress and always annoying. It should have gone to Saoirse Ronan. The Academy has a big bias against Ireland. We're not American, so we're not mainstream, we're not British so we don't have prestige and we don't speak a foreign language, so we're fed.

wickedrum

Saoirse Ronan is a great actress, but she was nominated for Little Women, which wasn't giving her as much scope for acting as some of the other movies.

PhoenixRising

Well, the Oscars posted their lowest ratings in history. Not surprising, since Hollywood is "woking" itself into irrelevance. For the tenth straight year, the Academy gave the Oscar to a movie no one watched and no one cared about. This year made history because Parasite was the first foreign language film to win Best Picture. But the Academy hasn't given Best Picture to a movie people actually cared about since The Hurt Locker in 2009.

Here's the list of Best Picture winners since The Hurt Locker:

The King's Speech
The Artist
Argo
12 Years A Slave
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Spotlight
Moonlight
The Shape of Water
Green Book
Parasite

Now here are the Best Picture winners from the time I was born in 1970 to 2009

Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Out of Africa
Platoon
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Dances With Wolves
The Silence of The Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Shakespeare In Love
American Beauty
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
The Departed
No Country For Old Men
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker

Notice the progression? Or shall I say, the regression?

I agree, 1917 was the frontrunner, and Sam Mendes has to be pissed right about now. So does Quentin Tarantino. He lost in both Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay, and his next film will probably be his last before he retires. Oh, and Joaquin Phoenix's acceptance speech for Best Actor for Joker was embarrassing. At one point he started talking about cows and milk.

I agree, sum1. Saoirse Ronan probably should've gotten Best Actress. Congrats to Brad Pitt winning Best Supporting Actor. Oh, the Academy has a lot of biases, but there's nothing to be done about it.