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The Oscars are known to follow a scenario – not only by the story of the ceremony, but also by the winners. Like most awards, the Oscars are preceded by speculation and calculated predictions, and the final results, with a few exceptions, are hardly surprising. This year's Oscars deviated from the script in several ways.
The obvious difference was the absence of the host. The Academy, apparently aware of the upheavals of the last Oscars without a host, did not try anything spectacular. The ceremony was simple, silent and, there is no better way to say it, boring. But given the long period of with the awards, the Academy would have arranged for this market.
However, the second gap is more significant: Roma directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is nominated for 10 Oscars. In a mediocre year for Hollywood cinema, Roma, a Mexican film on Netflix, sought to win the prize. But at the end of the evening, he won only three Oscars (best director, best filmmaker, best film in foreign language). He could not even win the award for the best film, which went to Green Book – a simple and safe film that, a stronger year, would have struggled to get nominated.
The winners of the best film have not always been unanimously – Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010) and [19659005] Argo (2012), In recent years, Oscar skeptics have talked a lot about skeptics – but none of them were as shocking as Crash was not right from of Brokeback Mountain in 2005 . The victory of Green Paper is near.
But this year's Oscars also mark a step forward. Ruth E. Carter became the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Hannah Beachler won the Best Production Decor Award. This is the first time that a woman of color is named in the category. These victories become more poignant in terms of historical context: no African-American woman has won an Oscar without acting in 30 years. Similarly, Rami Malek, playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody became the first Arab-American to win the award for Best Actor.
The best animated film, Spider-Man: In the film, as the multiple Oscar nominated Black Panther, deviating from tradition, is centered on a superhero of African descent: his protagonist is Afro-Latino, the latter African-American. Spider-Man filmmaker Peter Ramsey became the first black director to win an award in an animated feature film category.
The evening was dominated by people of color and women – something that had not happened before, a particularly powerful fact following the #OscarsSoWhite demonstrations of 2015. This year's awards even had a link with the Indians: Period. End of the sentence – settled in an Indian village, fighting against stigma attached to the rules – won the Best Short Documentary Award. Filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi mentioned Guneet Monga, the Indian executive producer of the film, in her speech of thanks
but the ceremony itself lacked personality. The queen (centerpiece of Bohemian Rhapsody ) was then opened to make room for poor performance, before leading to a largely tasteless evening. The highlights of the ceremony were so rare that you could count them on your right hand, with a few remaining fingers. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, interpreting & # 39; Shallow & # 39; of A star was born (who also won the award for the best original song), looked wonderfully coordinated – with eyes closed, smiles released, songs
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper perform "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born". After the show, Lady Gaga then wins the best original song for "Shallow". Credit: Reuters
Olivia Colman also won the best actress award for The Favorite a well deserved honor for a burning and haunting performance, which delivered a fun acceptance speech [19659003]who was also deliciously disorienting: thanking a list of people she feared forgetting, remembering the Oscars (and herself), recognizing the other nominees (Glenn Close and Lady Gaga), partly incredulous and -admiration .
The star of the evening, however, was by far Spike Lee, nominated for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay . After a while, Lee was everywhere. He was visibly unimpressed – performing a slight wink and a biting sign – when John Mulaney and Awkwafina flattered him on stage before presenting the award for best animated short film. Then Lee won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and he went on stage, jumped and kissed Samuel Jackson, with the excitement of a lively teenager. ("Do not put this … clock on!" He said in his thank you note, referring to the delay of the acceptance speeches.) Shortly after, Lee got up, raised his hand in the room. and tilted when Barbra Streisand, presenting the best film of BlackKklansman, commented on their common roots in Brooklyn.
Spike Lee celebrates the scene on stage with Samuel L Jackson receiving the Best Screenplay Award adapted for "BlacKKKlansman". Credit: Reuters
When Green Book won the Best Film Award, Lee angrily waved his arms before attempting to run out of the theater (but was stopped at the doors). He was asked questions about the behind-the-scenes victories of Green Book and Lee, sipping champagne, had no ambiguity: "I am a snakebit. Whenever someone leads someone else, I lose, "he said, referring to Driving Miss Daisy – on the basis of a principle similar to Green Room – outclbading his escape movie, Right Thing at the 63rd Academy Awards.
The Green Book was in fact criticized for perpetuating the trope of the "white savior". Waiting for giant steps on the part of the Academy is perhaps naive, but this year's Oscars illustrate well that self-reflection does not go beyond its field.
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