Rami Malik did win for Bohemian Rhapsody, but Lady GaGa was stiffed for her nom for the best actress role.
Supporting Actor went to Mahershela Ali for Green Book, a film that was in and out of theaters before I could even see it.
Actress went to Olivia Coleman for The Favourite, a movie that nobody saw, at all, in the area. We did see her nervous acceptance speech.
Supporting Actress went to Regina King for If Beale Street could Talk, also a movie that never aired here, in the bay area, of millions of people.
Animated film winner did go to Spider Man Into the Spider Verse.
Cinematography went to Roma, which did show up here, in January 2019, but we did not see it. It was gone in three weeks.
Costume design went to Black Panther. Well at least that's something.
Usually the winner of director leads to best picture. Alfanso Cauron won from Roma.
Never heard of Free Solo, which won for documentary.
Film editing went to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Roma won for foreign film.
Ridiculous. Vice won for make up, over the others. Make up? (Black Panther didn't get a nom). That movie? Not Black Panther for Killmonger? The fake Dick Cheney wins over that. Okay.
Black Panther won for musical score, and A Star is Brown won for song, at least. Shallow by GaGa, ironically.
Best picture went to Green Book, a film that played here, in San Jose area, for at most 2 months, and was not reviewed, over Black Panther and A Star us Bron, and note that Panther was in theaters for six months and made a billion and 300 million dollars. Gaga movie made 200 hundred million. What did best picture make? Green book, about 69 million! Really? What were they on?
And if anything, Roma should have won because director and picture usually go together, but I did not seem Roma. Oh, in case you're wondering, it made not applicable, as it will not tell me what the score is on the movie site. Going to guess from it being around for a few weeks that it made the qualifying 40 million.
BlackKKlansman made 40 million.
Production winner was Black Panther.
Bohemian Rhapsody got sound editing and mixing.
Visual Effects went to First Man, which did come out long enough to be noticed, but was not reviewed, over Black Panther? What? Note First Man only made 44 million domestically, tanking like a broken orbiter here, but made 104 million with foreign box office. With a budget of possibly 56 million, and advertising, it broke even, which is not good, so how is this movie on the list? Don't know.
Writing goes to BlackKKlansman and Green Book.
So hearkening back to the dismal mid 2000s, without a host even, Oscars chose to take the comfortable middle road, grab minor blockbusters to appeal to the oldsters, and went for one or two films that actually came out in October to throw off their fall or later rule, just a little.
They only gave some of it to Black Panther because well it made over a Billion.
They didn't want to obviously.
Although it is amazinfg Lady GaGa was nominated for anything, giving it to a person in a film nobody heard of, is typical of their earlier years, back in the 1990s. They even had a spat of that in the mid 2000s with movies people had never heard of.
They did not ask The Kal Katstar to host. But I was out of town.
I've hear BlackKKKlansman is good, so I might have to netflix it.
Green Book. Meh. Pass.
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