We finally live in the world where Sam Rockwell has his Oscar!!!
Sam's speech was lovely, funny and filled with genuine gratitude. Unfortunately, it was one of the very few good things that happened at the ceremony.
Last night Oscars have been downright shameful. Practically no one took stand and the audience didn't even stand up for Annabella Sciorra, Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd which was saddening to watch. Thank God for Frances McDormand delivering nice Oscar moment and asking fellow female nominees in all categories to stand up but it was not enough.
Jimmy Kimmel was OK hosting but nowhere near as good as last year. Nothing memorable happened and the jet ski thing wasn't that funny.Almost the entire thing was so lukewarm, boring and underwhelming it reminded me of that dreadful ceremony Chris Rock hosted 2 years back. I mean it really says something when the funniest thing that happened was Armie Hammer getting hooked to IV the day of the ceremony because of 'stomach flu'.There is no one more thirsty for attention than this guy. Kimmel was funny and he really tried but he didn't have the material, last year he was fantastic.
I thought everything Kumail Nanjiani said and did was hilarious. He should host one day!
Also yep, Black Panther lovefest already began. Get ready for them to nominate this when they didn't Wonder Woman.
Highlights included the adorable cast of Star Wars (Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill and Kelly Marie Tran) and BB-8 being on stage. BB-8 rolled in and Oscar tickled him and that almost ended my life:
Unfortunately Kobe Bryant won. You don't nominate Franco but this you do?
But then Coco won and Oscar was so happy, he pulled Gael to him to hug him and that also almost ended my life:
How is Gael still alive?
I did like the theater bit Kimmel did where they went to the cinema to surprise movie goers and Mark Hamill awkwardly introducing himself to Gal Gadot was so adorable. The skit went for far too long though.
It was insane how it was 90th ceremony and they did absolutely nothing special. They did have pretty good presenters but it was all so boring. Some of this was downright cringeworthy like the best song acceptance speech. It's such a shame This is Me didn't win. That it such a rousing song and from what I've seen the only performance that got the standing ovation from the crowd. I wish Chris Pine was there to cry.
But other than the audience not even giving a standing ovation to Weinstein's victims to show them their support and to applaud their courage, Academy was shamelessly covering for Casey Affleck - they had Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence present Actress (Affleck said he won't attend) and to make sure no one watching will ask 'why are two women presenting actress and one person is presenting actor??' they had Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda present best actor.
Another cringe moment was Emma Stone saying "these four men and Greta Gerwig". When Natalie did that it was in poor taste, when Stone did it, it was just stupid.
It was a ceremony filled with cowardice so it makes sense the Shape of Water won instead of a movie that actually has something to say. And Faye and Warren showed up and did great job presenting but there wasn't even much of a reference to envelope gate. Best one was Mark Hamilll saying "don't say la la land don't say la la land' as he was opening the envelope.
This made me laugh, though but the Damon shade with Jimmy apologizing to the men and women in military for including Damon in the montage was the best bit of the night. Also I cannot watch McConaughey laughing and not laugh myself.