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Queen guitarist Brian May broke his silence after the Academy Awards.
As you remember, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie The Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Actor in a Leading Role Categories.
Brian May has described his feelings about Oscar wins, and revealed what really happened at the 2019 Academy Awards. He wrote:
"Well, yes. You saw I was very quiet after the Oscars were over, signalling the end of the whole movie awards season. What really happened?
We opened the Academy Awards NEVER been opened before, in an avalanche of excitement, looking out on an instant standing ovation from a glittering audience containing many of our heroes, all beaming and singing with us and punching the air.
We then, shockingly, walked away with 4 Oscars – the top haul of the night. The head of local production came up to me and shook my hand as we left the auditorium. He said " I've been doing the Oscars for 40 years, and that was the best opening we ever had! " A lovely moment.
So – everyone assumes that we would then go all the way, deliriously partying with a care in the world. But I guess I'm not that kind of animal. I was, and I am, deeply grateful for our Freddie film being recognized in a way we never had the audacity to expect. But I found the public activity behind the whole season, and the behavior of the media writers around it, deeply disturbing.
If you look at the Press and Internet discussions that took place over the last few months, you can see that it's going to be more or less discriminating, or rather than discussing their merits and admiring the skills that went into making them.
Vitriol and dishonesty, and blatant attempts to shame and influence the members into voting the way they, in their arrogance required them to. It's not the fault of the awards panels – they stood up well. It's a kind of vindictive sickness that seems to have gripped public life.
All through it, I've been biting my tongue, not wishing to influence the results of the bales even by a hair. But when the curtain came down, I was left with very mixed feelings. They persisted until I read this VERY well thought and well written article in the Spectator. Brave, truthful – and now I do not have to explain. It's all here. "
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Well, yes. You saw I was very quiet after the Oscars were over, signalling the end of the whole movie awards season. What really happened? We opened the Academy Awards in a new way, and we were excited about it, looking forward to an instant standing ovation from a glittering audience of many of our heroes, all beaming and singing with us and punching the air. We then, shockingly, walked away with 4 Oscars – the top haul of the night. The head of local production came up to me and shook my hand as we left the auditorium. He said "I've been doing the Oscars for 40 years, and that was the best opening we ever had!" A lovely moment. So – everyone assumes that we would then go all the way, deliriously partying with a care in the world. But I guess I'm not that kind of animal. I was, and I am, deeply grateful for our Freddie film being recognized in a way we never had the audacity to expect. But I found the public activity behind the whole season, and the behavior of the media writers around it, deeply disturbing. If you look at the Press and Internet discussions that took place over the last few months, you can see that it's going to be more or less discriminating, or rather than discussing their merits and admiring the skills that went into making them. Vitriol and dishonesty, and blatant attempts to shame and influence the members into voting the way they, in their arrogance required them to. It's not the fault of the awards panels – they stand up well. It's a kind of vindictive sickness that seems to have gripped public life. All through it, I've been biting my tongue, not wishing to influence the results of the bales even by a hair. But when the curtain came down, I was left with very mixed feelings. They persisted until I read this VERY well thought and well written article in the Spectator. Brave, truthful – and now I do not have to explain. It's all here. Keep swiping to see the Guardian or the Guardian https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/bohemian-rhapsodys-oscars-win-is-a-triumph-over-snobby-film-critics/ ! Cheers folks. Bri
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