The 2019 Oscars!

Something big happened over the weekend, Sunday in particular.  No I’m not referring to the fact that it stopped raining for all of fifteen minutes.  The sixteenth Annual Oscar party happened, and it happened with barely a hitch.  I’m hiding that hitch from y’all, because I can.  One minor hitch, that no one knows about, aside it was a great evening.  It was full of great food, movies, friendly competition, and most importantly people I like being around.

The telecast itself was just blah to me.  I enjoyed the opening performance of Queen and Adam Lambert but it quickly fell into a tedious routine.  The lack of host was desperately missed to break that up.  I was disappointed that Kevin Hart stepped down, two days after his exciting announcement.  I was and still am a huge fan of Kevin Hart.  I was over eager to see him in this role.  While many folks said they did not want to fill his shoes, there were some that said they would.  I was annoyed by statements I read about not being able to find a replacement.

There were a few surprises in the winners list for me.  Chiefly was in the best actress category.  Olivia Coleman took home the prize for her performance in The Favourite.  I enjoyed the movie and thought she was fine in the role.  However it was a second fiddle performance compared to Glenn Close’s in The Wife.

For best picture I was excited to see Green Book take home the award.  It was one of two films I hoped would win the award, the other being BlackKklansman.  In fact I had Green Book at the top of my ballot.  This also meant the two films I wanted to lose the award, lost.  I was bored with A Star is Born.  It’s not an anti musical thing, after all The King & I, South Pacific, and Across the Universe are movies I love and adore.  The other film I did not want to win was Roma.  The movie did not hold together for me in anyway.  Also I did not like the standard it would have set with a Netflix victory.  As a supporter of attending movies on the big screen I deeply offended with the nomination.  It was like the movie going public was being by passed, in favor of a cheap TV movie.  If films like that are going to be nominated I want Sharknado to compete for visual effects.  In the end Green Book was crowned champion and I am more than pleased with that.  I am a huge fan of the movie and both actors in it.  Its director, Peter Farrelly, is credited with some of the funniest movies I’ve seen.  

I look forward to going to the movies and seeing what gets nominated at next years Oscars.  As always I extend an open invitation to anyone wanting to join me at the movies.  Even if it’s a movie I don’t want to see, such as the new Tyler Perry movie opening this weekend, if you ask I’ll go.

For those who attended the party please see below for what I awarded in the shoulda/woulda/coulda and 2018 @ the movies categories.  They are in bold and red.

(NO COMMENTS ABOUT FIRST REFORMED. I’VE HEARD & RESPECT YOUR OPINIONS ON THE MOVIE.  RETURN THAT TO ME).

SHOULDA/WOULDA/COULDA

PICTURE: 1st Man, 1st Reformed, Front Runner, If Beale St Could Talk, Three Identical Strangers, Widows
ACTOR: Ryan Gosling First Man, Ethan Hawke First Reformed, Hugh Jackman Front Runner John David Washington BlackKklansman

ACTRESS: Viola Davis Widows, Felicity Jones On the Basis of Sex, Rosamund Pike A Private War, Charlize Theron Tully

DIRECTOR: Peter Farley Green Book, Barry Jenkins If Beale St Could Talk, Paul Schrader 1st Reformed

SUPP. ACTOR: Steve Carell Vice, Michael B Jordan Black Panther, Jonathan Pryce The Wife

SUPP. ACTRESS: Emily Blunt A Quiet Place, Claire Foy First Man, Amanda Seyfried First Reformed

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Isle of Dogs, A Quiet Place, Sorry to Bother You, Three Identical Strangers
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Black Panther, Christopher Robin, First Man, The Front Runner, Widows

DOCUMENTARY: Love Gilda, 3 Identical Strangers, They Shall Not Grow Old, Won’t You Be My Neighbor

ANIMATED FEATURE: Big Fish & Begonia, Hotel Transylvania 3, Mary & the Witches Flower, Smallfoot

FOREIGN FILM: 1945, Big Fish & Begonia, Mary & The Witch’s Flower, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

2018 @ THE MOVIES

WORST FILM: Death Wish, Holmes & Watson, The Nutcracker, Mary Poppins Returns, A Wrinkle in Time
SEQUEL: Avengers 3, Creed 2, Girl In the Spiders Web, Goosebumps 2, Incredibles 2, Sicario 2

DRAMA: BlackKklansman, First Man, First Reformed, Front Runner, Green Book, If Beale St Could Talk, Widows

COMEDY:Book Club, Death of Stalin, Happy Time Murders, Night School, Tag, Sorry to Bother You, Vice

SCI-FI/FANTASY:Annihilation, Black Panther, Jurassic World 2, Pacific Rim 2, Rampage, Ready Player 1

HORROR/THRILLER: Bad Times at El Royale, Halloween, Hereditary, The Nun, A Quiet Place, Thoroughbreds

ACTION MOVIE:The Commuter, Den of Thieves, Equalizer 2, Hunter Killer, The Meg, Proud Mary, Skyscraper

INDY FILM:First Reformed, Keep the Change, The Rider, Sorry to Bother You, 3 Identical Strangers, Tully, The Wife

FAMILY FLICK: Christopher Robin, Goosebumps 2, House with a Clock In It’s Walls, The Incredibles 2

ENSEMBLE:Black Panther, Book Club, Isle of Dogs, First Man, The Mule, Old Man & the Gun, Vice, Widows

FIGHT: Any battle in Afghanistan 12 Strong, the fight for equality Blackkklansman, Battle in Wakanda Black Panther, Car Chase The Old Man & the Gun, The Rock vs giant animals in Chicago Rampage

STUNTS: The 15:17 to Paris, Annihilation, The Commuter, Creed 2, Skyscraper, Welcome to Marwen

HERO: Chadwick Boseman Black Panther, Viola Davis Widows, Ewan McGregor Christopher Robin

SIDEKICK:Adam Driver BlackKklansman, Danny Glover Old Man & the Gun, Naomie Harris Rampage

VILLAIN: Josh Brolin Avengers: Infinity War, Colin Ferrell Widows, Michael B Jordan Black Panther

POLITICAL FIGURE: Christian Bale Vice, Jason Clarke Chappaquiddick, Justice Ginsburg RBG, Hugh Jackman Front Runner

VOICEOVER:Jack Black Goosebumps 2, Ethan Hawke First Reformed, Samuel L Jackson Incredibles 2

YOUTH PERFORMANCE:Elsie Fisher 8th Grade, Lucas Hedges Boy Erased, Amanda Stenberg Hate U Give

KISS:Diane Keaton/Andy Garcia Book Club, Amanda Seyfried/Ethan Hawke 1st Reformed, Halle Berry/Daniel Craig Kings, Robert Redford/Sissy Spacek Old Man& the Gun, Liam Neeson/Viola Davis Widows

REAL LIFE PERFORMANCE: Mahershala Ali Green Book, Steve Carrell Welcome to Marwen, Ryan Gosling First Man, Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody, Melissa McCarthy Can You Ever forgive Me, John David Washington Blackkklansman

CAMEO:Vera Farmiga The Nun, Justice Ginsberg On the Basis of Sex, Jeff Goldblum Jurassic World 2

LINE:“Nothing is impossible & I do a whole lot of nothing” Christopher Robin “I’m not talking about making a living, I’m talking about just living” Old Man & the Gun “Love is the route of everything, love or the lack of it” Won’t You be My Neighbor

CGI CHARACTER: Slappy Goosebumps 2,  Megalodon The Meg, Folks of Marwen Welcome to Marwen

REVIVAL: Miracle on 34th St (1947), Saturday Night Fever, Sunset Blvd, True Grit (1969), Young Frankenstein