Will "Spotlight"
Get the Spotlight or Will the Academy Revere "The Revenant"?
By Chris Sabga
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Chris Rock is tonight's host. I am hoping he's hilarious and skewers
the hell out of everyone. He was probably the best of the hosts we've
seen in the last decade. Let's hope that streak continues tonight.
Am
I horrible for wanting him to find some
way to offend Sean Penn again? Penn's sour, humorless reaction to
Rock's Jude Law joke was hysterical to me. Then again, Jude Law's
career did
take somewhat of a hit after that.
I'm here with both Silver Screen Sisters and a delicious plate of
Chinese food – yum, yum!
The
Red Carpet
Robin Roberts looks nice. That's all I have.
Robin Roberts looks nice. That's all I have.
The Oscar
Ceremony
Full results are listed at the end.
Chris
Rock's opening monologue is great. I loved his Rocky and Paul
Giamatti jokes. Comparing Rocky to science fiction because white
athletes are better than black athletes – brilliant!
Here
comes Emily Blunt and "Charize" Theron! A "Travolta
moment" early in the evening for Chris Rock. Intentional?
Best
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Could this be an early precursor to Best Picture? We shall see.
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are awesome together.
Gosling: "We have two Academy Awards between us." (Crowe
has both. Ha!)
Best
Adapted Screenplay: The
Big Short
Nice to see someone acknowledge the book and thank the original
writer. I could have done without the bizarre political rant
afterward, but I guess it makes some sense considering the subject
matter of the movie.
The clips interspersing black actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Chris
Rock, and especially Tracy Morgan into Oscar nominated films were a
riot!
Henry Cavill is out now. Is it really pronounced Cah-vul?
Best
Supporting Actress: Alicia
Vikander, The Danish Girl
Silver Screen Sister 1 predicted Brie Larson – who wasn't in this
category.
Before the winner was announced, Silver Screen Sister 2 went on a
rant about Kate Winslet. "Anyone could've played that!" I
disagree and adored Kate's performance, but she is streeping up there
in the amount of nominations she's racked up. Yes, I meant to type
streeping instead of creeping.
Alicia Vikander's co-star Eddie Redmayne appeared rather touched by
her speech. "She seems very humble," according to Silver
Screen Sister 2.
Chris Rock: "Now we're black" (pretending to trip over the
word "back") – cute.
Best
Costume Design: Mad
Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan's list of people to thank – shown on a scrolling
sidebar on the bottom of the screen – is enormous. I'm glad they're
handling it this way, allowing her to make a more heartfelt, personal
speech. Of course, music just had to cut her off. How rude!
Best
Production Design:
Mad Max: Fury Road
"The first Oscar for diversity." Nice!
Best
Makeup and Hairstyling: Mad
Max: Fury Road
Three straight for "Mad Max." Will this be it?
I hate when one winner interrupts another, especially at the end when
there's barely any time left to speak.
Best
Cinematography: The
Revenant
A nice speech overtaken by emotion.
Best
Film Editing: Mad
Max: Fury Road
"Mad
Max" wins its 4th Academy Award tonight – and the music cuts
off the speaker again.
A serious, stone-faced Angela Bassett with a satirical Black History
Month tribute to Will Smith – amazing!
Best
Sound Editing: Mad
Max: Fury Road
#5 for "Max."
Silver Screen Sister 2: "Why are they putting 'Mad Max' on the
balcony if it's going to win everything?"
Best
Sound Mixing: Mad
Max: Fury Road
And
here comes #6.
"Come
on!" screamed Silver Screen Sister 2. "I don't even know
what the movie is about. Is it a continuation?"
Best
Visual Effects: Ex
Machina
And
the "Mad Max" streak is broken!
In
poor taste: A close-up of actors looking bored during the speech, and
only one of the four winners being allowed to speak.
Even
a Star Wars segment couldn't cheer up a livid Silver Screen Sister 2:
"How much time has passed? It's 10 o'clock already?! They've
given out one
good award. I hope they speed it up now."
Chris Rock and his daughters selling Girl Scout cookies to the
billionaire actors in the audience – I love it!
Best
Animated Short Film: Bear
Story
I
don't think I picked this in my Oscar pool. Damn
it!
The first award for Chile. The Oscar-recipients feel so honored. I'm
happy for them.
Best
Animated Feature Film: Inside
Out
"Regardless of a gold man, we get to make stuff!" Can't
help but love that kind of passion.
"I have to see it!" begs Silver Screen Sister 2 about
"Inside Out."
Funnyman Kevin Hart with a surprisingly serious and superb speech
about black actors and their craft.
The Weeknd – that's the singer's name, apparently – "has the
most creative hairdo on the planet," says Silver Screen Sister
1.
Ten awards left.
Silver Screen Sister 2: "There's an hour left" – so she
thinks – "and they haven't given out one decent award yet!
Thank God for Facebook."
The Silver Screen Sisters are more entertaining than this ceremony.
Host Chris Rock has had some fun moments, but they're drowned out by
the sheer length of this show.
Rock asking random black moviegoers about the hoity toity
Oscar-nominated movies is a hoot! "Spotlight? What the hell is
that?!"
"There's
so much talent out there – of all
races," says another fan. Amen!
Best
Supporting Actor:
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
A major upset.
"That's cruel!" laments Silver Screen Sister 2. "There
are two Marks."
She
has a point. I was predicting that the other
Mark – Ruffalo – would get the upset over Sylvester Stallone, who
many thought was a shoo-in.
Louis CK gives a wonderful and amusing speech about the importance of
the Best Documentary Short Subject category.
Best
Documentary Short Subject: A
Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
"That's the best speech so far!" raves Silver Screen Sister
2. "It has some meaning to it."
Best
Documentary Feature: Amy
Eight awards left – and with that, Silver Screen Sister 2 has
gotten up and gone home.
Chris Rock with a major announcement: Over $65,000 in Girl Scout
cookies sold. Not too shabby!
In Memoriam was touching, but where were Abe Vigoda and Roddy Piper?
If "The Godfather" and "They Live" aren't good
enough to make this list, what the hell is?
There are still eight awards left. I say this every year, but the
Oscars are too damn long!
"They deliberately make it this long," Silver Screen Sister
1 points out. "What could they cut out?" I wonder. Then she
lists a bunch of pointless skits.
Best
Live Action Short Film: Stutterer
Best Foreign Language Film is next. Am I horrible for hoping that
John Travolta would announce these nominees?
Best
Foreign Language Film:
Son of Saul
I'm so tired that I barely recognized Vice President Joe Biden. His
speech decrying sexual abuse seems a hell of a lot more important to
me than Will Smith and Jade Pinkett-Smith boycotting the Oscars.
While there is certainly room for improvement when it comes to
Hollywood and diversity, I do think there has been encouraging
progress over the past ten years.
Best
Original Score: The
Hateful Eight
Best
Original Song: "Writing's
on the Wall" – Spectre
"No openly gay man has ever won an Oscar." Dustin Lance
Black won it a few years ago for "Milk."
Sacha Baron Cohen is great!
Only four awards left. "I mean, that's another two hours,
really," Silver Screen Sister 1 quipped.
Best
Director: Alejandro
González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Iñárritu
wins this Oscar for the second year in a row, and they still try to
cut him off with music – shameful! I know the show is already too
long, but come
on.
"They've been cutting everybody off with music," Silver
Screen Sister 1 rightly notices.
Chris Rock: "It's late. It's infomercial late."
"That child is going to be traumatized for something that didn't
even happen in his life!" Silver Screen Sister 1 says about
"Joy's" husband and wife shouting scene in which a baby is
held and shaken.
Best
Actress: Brie
Larson, Room
Nice of her to thank the average Joe moviegoers who paid money for a
ticket to see her film. The fans are important too, and it seems that
Hollywood sometimes forgets that.
Julianne
Moore about "The Danish Girl": "One of the first
people to undergo gender confirmation
surgery." I thought that was a slip of the tongue, but Dr.
Google says it's a legitimate phrase.
Best
Actor: Leonardo
DiCaprio, The Revenant
Silver Screen Sister 2 just texted me a million clapping emojis.
She's obviously very happy with this result.
Leonardo DiCaprio's climate change spiel might have been more
persuasive if he wasn't smirking throughout it.
Then again, another text from Silver Screen Sister 2: "That
speech was worth the prior four hours of drivel."
Leo really is the king of the world!
Best
Picture:
Spotlight
Most of the experts pegged "The Revenant" but I had a
feeling "Spotlight" would win, so I went against the grain
and picked it in the Oscar pool I'm in. Congratulations!
Full
Results
Best
Picture:
Spotlight
Best
Actor: Leonardo
DiCaprio, The Revenant
Best
Actress: Brie Larson,
Room
Best
Supporting Actor:
Mark Rylance, Bridge
of Spies
Best
Supporting Actress: Alicia
Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best
Director: Alejandro
González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Best
Adapted Screenplay: The
Big Short
Best
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Best
Animated Feature Film: Inside
Out
Best
Cinematography: The
Revenant
Best
Documentary Feature: Amy
Best
Documentary Short Subject: A
Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Best
Film Editing: Mad Max:
Fury Road
Best
Foreign Language Film:
Son of Saul
Best
Makeup and Hairstyling: Mad
Max: Fury Road
Best
Original Score: The
Hateful Eight
Best
Original Song: "Writing's
on the Wall" – Spectre
Best
Production Design:
Mad Max: Fury Road
Best
Costume Design: Mad Max:
Fury Road
Best
Live Action Short Film: Stutterer
Best
Animated Short Film: Bear
Story
Best
Visual Effects: Ex
Machina
Best
Sound Editing: Mad Max:
Fury Road
Best
Sound Mixing: Mad Max:
Fury Road
