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No Other Land was the one I was looking forward to, and the speech was wonderful.

beamish14 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 2:11 am Bob Dylan of all people DID win for a brilliant song (“Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys)

I can’t take a category seriously that didn’t recognize Jim Steinman for “Tonight is What it Means to be Young” or Dan Hartman’s “I Can Dream About You.”

Yes, I love Streets of Fire

I actually forgot and remembered that seconds after I posted.

I looked through all the winners from years past, and it's hard to judge a lot of those earlier songs because many, maybe even all of them, have been interpreted wonderfully by somebody down the line, whether it's another pop vocalist or quite often a jazz musician, but by mid-century, there's a lot of treacle and tastes seem especially conservative as you get into the rock-era. Occasional and welcome exceptions though, for Isaac Hayes, Eminem, Common and John Legend...

Matt wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 2:19 am Diane Warren should have an Oscar, but she should have it for "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon, a legitimately great power ballad. I dare you to hum from memory the song that won against it: "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt.

I kind of hate both.

Nice of them to cut the mic during the Sound oscar

Honestly… once you start asking the crowd to give rounds of applause for people not on the stage, it’s time to go

Timmy standing up to congratulate that crew was cool

Will the shorts ever not be a huge bracket buster

I voted like I always vote the shorts categories, by how interesting the title is. Thank My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York for teaching me the way

I have to give props to the marketing team behind The Last Ranger for putting lawn ads for it on freeway exits throughout West Los Angeles

Spartaco!

I really liked the In Memoriam this year especially Freeman’s tribute to Hackman but did anyone else notice the guy turning on his phone in the audience near the end of it or was it just me?

Crawley winning cinematography for The Brutalist seems well-deserved to me. Didn't see Maria but feel like it's unlikely The Brutalist wouldn't have won my vote.

Simply doesn’t feel right to see Mohammad Rasoulof, who fled his country as a consequence of making his movie, genuflecting to a filmmaker worth $4 billion after losing the Oscar to him

I know he lensed Ballast and 45 Years and Corbet’s other films, but it now feels as though Lol Crawley has officially arrived as a big deal cinematographer. His work on The Brutalist is Elswit, Deakins, Lachman level great

I barely watched the Oscars in recent years because they seemed increasingly ashamed of celebrating film art or history, but it feels like they've really corrected that awful trajectory, and maybe that's a credit to Conan. tbf I missed a lot of the first hour, coming in late and then stepping away for a meal, but so far so good. (I'm still divided about the long intros where they shower praise on the nominees - it can seem a bit much, but for an industry notorious for being hard on those below the line, it's probably greatly appreciated.)

Really great work by the producers there, playing a few random unrecognizable notes from each score. I mean, come on guys.

Glad The Brutalist won this one too.

Best ceremony in years, truly. And they’d really been off the rails in recent years.

One thing I was hoping they'd do was a bit like "Conan on the Aisle." That was a favorite growing up. I'm guessing it's not going to happen.

I'm not saying anything new, but please give us fewer stupid skits and more time for the winners to speak.

I had no idea the winning score was by one of members of Yuck, I need to dig that first album back out, been too long

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:06 am I barely watched the Oscars in recent years because they seemed increasingly ashamed of celebrating film art or history, but it feels like they've really corrected that awful trajectory, and maybe that's a credit to Conan. tbf I missed a lot of the first hour, coming in late and then stepping away for a meal, but so far so good. (I'm still divided about the long intros where they shower praise on the nominees - it can seem a bit much, but for an industry notorious for being hard on those below the line, it's probably greatly appreciated.)

Baby steps, though. One big step, for example, would be to give each of the Best Pic nominees maybe, say, a full measly minute of airtime to at least give some impression of what they're about, instead of a short burst of incoherent clips.

I remain baffled that the Oscars are so reluctant to show anything from the actual nominated films. It's like they assume that everyone watching has already seen all of them.

So glad we’re back to just showing a clip of the goddamn movie in the lead acting categories.

Really thought Timmy might steal it, but this feels right (even though I’d have voted for Stan)

Halle Berry should have run out on stage and kissed Brody. Missed opportunity for a legendary Oscars moment.

Matt wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:24 am Halle Berry should have run out on stage and kissed Brody. Missed opportunity for a legendary Oscars moment.

She did it on her Instagram backstage, actually

She should have done it again, 10mins into his speech. He needed an intermission. Hey yo!

Almost feels like Brody might pull out a gun a la Budd Dwyer

A lot of news outlets picked up the kiss so at this point it would be overkill to repeat it for television.

Also someone just pointed out that Alain Delon wasn't in the memorial segment.

Re: scenes, I originally thought that was a golden rule for the Oscars, but at some point they just tossed it in the trash. I can't remember when that happened, but it's unfortunate because it's really the only way to actually celebrate a film for what it does - show at least some portion of it as is, not chopped up or whatever.