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If you were one of the western New Yorkers who lost power on Sunday and did not get the chance to see the Oscars, you missed a few surprises.
The biggest surprise: it lasted only "3 hours and 20 minutes" on ABC. This is partly explained by the fact that his host was not swallowed up for a few extra minutes.
Another surprise: Leading critics went on Twitter and praised not having a host because it seemed to help move the program forward quickly.
I was surprised by this reaction because, for decades, critics needed someone to organize just to make fun of them at the head of their criticism.
Since we are conducting a survey about all these days, I would like to know if anyone missed the opportunity to do so. see the next Billy Crystal have fun with the nominees.
I may be a minority, but I feel that the program could have been more entertaining than a broadcaster in general at the beginning of the series – or at least say something that the Twitterverse could condemn.
The funniest moments came early when three former stars of "Saturday Night Live" – Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler – made funny jokes by explaining that they were not the hosts. You can not go wrong by choosing three SNL artists as non-animators.
Midway through the program, I wish they would come back to make the show more fun.
At that time, almost all the speeches were windier than the weather in the west of New York
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper perform "Shallow" at the 91st Academy Awards. (Noel West / New York Times)
The first speeches were so crocodile that they asked a host to make fun of them. The winners should have been told not to read a list of people to thank – especially if you have difficulty reading the list.
Some of the winners had pages of notes in their pockets, with a winner of "Black Panther", production designer Hannah Beachler read her speech so long on an iPhone that the winner of the same category could not pronounce a word before the music diffuses them.
This is another reason to hate the iPhone.
The Oscars have made a better and more interesting Grammy Awards version than the Grammys two Sundays ago, with the help of former contestants from the Fox version of "American Idol" – Adam Lambert at the top of the show performing songs by Queen and Jennifer Hudson performing one of the songs nominated.
The highlight of the song is the loving performance of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper of the "Shallow" duo of their film "A Star Is Born".
You knew that Gaga was so great to be awesome, but Cooper sounded much better than anyone would expect from an actor who would not be a singer.
As expected, their film – once a big favorite – was excluded from the big rewards.
But everything was not going as planned on a night when diversity was celebrated with multiple victories deserved by people of color. Let's just say that the local forecasters did a much better job predicting winners of Sunday winds at 100 km / h than the Oscars forecasters. have a better chance – "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Roma" and "Black Panther".
I liked "Green Book" at the maximum of the seven nominated films that I saw, but I was still stunned to have received it because it had received many critics. for the optimistic way that ended the history of racial harmony between the clbadical pianist Don Shirley and the Italian-American bouncer who had led to his appearances during a tour in the depths of the south of 1962.
The only nominated film I did not see was "The Favorite", which meant I was missing the performance of Olivia Colman, who won the award for the best actress. I have friends who came out of the movie, that's one of the reasons I did not see it. The other reason is that he left WNY faster than the old half-fired Bills Vontae Davis.
Olivia Colman, winner of the Best Actress Award for "The Favorite", poses in the press room at the 91st Annual Academy Awards. (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)
Colman gave a noteworthy speech, an adorable and devaluing address in which she suggested that she would like Glenn Close to win the category for her performance in "The Woman". [19659002] Close was treated as his character in the film, that is to say unfairly. The highlight for Close's fans was to watch her listen to Lambert's version of "We Will Rock You" at the beginning of the program.
But if anyone needs to know that life in Hollywood is not fair, that is Close. 19659002] My tweets on Sunday evening have been slightly modified, especially in order to put them in context.
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader, received one of the biggest ovations of the night presenting the "Green Book". Only the introduction of Barbra Streisand – who presented the highlights of Spike Lee's movie "BlacKkKlansman" – may have pbaded him.The program did not contain much political material, and Lee's acceptance speech to viewers to "do the right thing" in 2020, with a few exceptions President Trump responded to Lee on Twitter Monday morning.
Rami Malek, named best actor for his Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody" also won an Emmy Award for "Mr. Robot." I would have given the Oscar to Christian Bale for his interpretation of Dick Cheney in "Vice".
Regina King, who was named best actress in a supporting female role for "If Beale Street Could Talk", also won two Emmys, one for "American Crime," canceled by ABC, and she's great in everything she's doing it.
In Memoriam " was li himself. But the annual exercise of honoring those who died in the industry was a great achievement.
The Knicks and Spike Lee won the night. Bravo. Lee won for his adapted screenplay after presenter Samuel L. Jackson told the few New York Knicks fans among the audience that the NBA team had broken a long series of home defeats. Lee celebrated his victory by jumping in Jackson's arms.
I know I am in the minority, but I thought that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was only a good TV movie, nothing more. (This tweet had the most taste for me so I may not be in the minority.)
It was a whole night for Mahershala Ali, with "True Detective" that ends his season on HBO won the award for Best Actor in "Green Book". But he really should have been in the category of main actors. Midway through the Oscars, I would have preferred to watch the finale of "True Detective" instead.
I really enjoyed watching "Roma" on Netflix. I imagine it's even better in a movie theater, a tweet seconded by the North Park Theater, where he recently played. He won the prize for best foreign film, best director (Alfonso Cuaron) and best cinema (Cuaron).
as best documentary. It's at 9 pm Sunday on National Geographic Channel. Incredible images Do not miss it. It will make you vibrate.
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