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mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:15 am Best Oscar host material ever? Finding myself laughing a lot which is uh… not usually my experience watching these

I liked the porch pirate joke. I watch way too many Reddit videos about them

Are there any awards on this awards show

It’s 7:23! We wouldn’t even be kicking off until 8 back in the day. Uh… convert that to central time yourself

I came in during the porch pirate joke. Anything funny before that?

domino harvey wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:23 am Are there any awards on this awards show

Now that the awards have started, I suddenly realize that I'd much rather watch 3 hours of Conan.

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:15 am Best Oscar host material ever? Finding myself laughing a lot which is uh… not usually my experience watching these

Yeah. We have tears here.

Wow, props to Flow there

Very happy for Flow!

What a shock, I genuinely expected The Wild Robot to win. Congrats Flow.

So glad Flow won!

Good for them. Would have never guessed that Disney’s stranglehold would be reduced to this degree.

The trajectory is moving in the right direction lately

The shorts remain absolutely impossible to predict. Less surprised about Flow - the international voting block has gotten really influential in the last few years.

The winning animated short was in last place in the Gold Derby predictions. This could be an interesting night

Yep, only one person here got that one right!

Flow is such an awesome winner, so happy. major ups to Latvia for being recognized on this stage

and now Iran too. this team is lovely, and no one predicted this

Animated Short with one of the most awkward acceptance speeches in recent memory. Why did he need to start over?!

This is allegedly the order tonight btw:

Supporting Actor
Animated Film
Animated Short
Costume Design
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Makeup and Hair
Film Editing
Supporting Actress
Production Design
Original Song
Documentary Short
Documentary Feature
Sound
Visual Effects
Live Action Short
Cinematography
International Feature Film
Original Score
Lead Actor
Director
Lead Actress
Picture

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:47 am Animated Short with one of the most awkward acceptance speeches in recent memory. Why did he need to start over?!

There was a documentary short acceptance speech maybe 8-10 years ago where one of the producers took swipes at the other, who was at the podium with them

knives wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:43 am Good for them. Would have never guessed that Disney’s stranglehold would be reduced to this degree.

I think Wild Robot and Inside Out 2 split a lot of voters

Estonia actually has a relatively robust state-sponsored film sector and has submitted a number of animated shorts that should have been nominated

that Estonia joke was immortal from Conan. he's on track for an all time best hosting performance

beamish14 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:53 am Estonia actually has a relatively robust state-sponsored film sector and has submitted a number of animated shorts that should have been nominated

as someone who loved all three countries when I visited the Baltic states in 2019, I support their success forever

Really hoping they don’t continue this trend of the nominee intros taking 900 years. I thought you were supposed to keep it snappy, Conan?!

I’m glad it’s running so slow. This is fun.

Also it’s so distracting to have Ron Swanson as the announcer.

Really amazing stuff, putting Elphaba in a black witch costume and Glinda in a pink dress.