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Oscars Open Thread: Might Be “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’s” to Lose

by TaMara|  March 12, 20238:50 pm| 126 Comments

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Ke Huy Quan, through tears, celebrated his Oscar win for best supporting actor in “Everything Everywhere All at Once."

"My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage," Quan said. https://t.co/3DT6Mh7vzD pic.twitter.com/Eqna80vmS5

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 13, 2023

Followed by Jamie Lee Curtis.

Best Actor nominee Brendan Fraser on the champagne carpet at the #Oscars95

Photo Credit: @msayles pic.twitter.com/ci2skXOZ8s

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 13, 2023

This is for anyone who wants to discuss the show or bash the show, makes no difference to me. I’m only watching because of some heart favorites this year, including Brendan Fraiser and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once – and if you haven’t seen it, I’ve seen it three times and recommend it highly.

I’m listening while making dinner for the crew.

 

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    1. 1.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 8:55 pm

      All my Asian American peers are kinda losing it tonight…..and why not? Ke’s story is OUR story, right down to the total lack of imagination (among other things) towards casting Asian actors.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      JPL

      March 12, 2023 at 8:57 pm

      Since I just watched Licorice Pizza today, I’m not the best to offer an opinion.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Baud

      March 12, 2023 at 8:59 pm

      @Gwangung:

      Heh.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Shana

      March 12, 2023 at 9:00 pm

      Singing Happy Birthday to the actor from Irish Goodbye was the sweetest thing.

      We saw all the nominated shorts yesterday, happy this one won and hope that The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse doesn’t win for animated short. Visually lovely but what a sappy treacly story.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Roger MacGuffin

      March 12, 2023 at 9:02 pm

      Everything Everywhere All at Once and Top Gun: Maverick are both super-sized putrid steaming piles of excrement.  Peter Bradshaw put it best when he described Everything Everywhere All at Once as “a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time”

       

      Reply
    6. 6.

      soapdish

      March 12, 2023 at 9:02 pm

      Is that Brendan Fraser or Drew Carey?

      Reply
    7. 7.

      NotMax

      March 12, 2023 at 9:03 pm

      Everything Everywhere… was among the choices on the plane when l flew last summer.

      Shut it off after maybe fifteen or twenty minutes. Purposeless balderdash which I found personally unappealing to da max. YMMV.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 9:06 pm

      I haven’t seen the movies nominated, I may have to try Everything…just out of curiosity.  I lasted about ten minutes into Elvis, but Baz is not my style, and Tom Hanks was ridiculous.

      And Lady Gaga won the red (beige) carpet.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      kindness

      March 12, 2023 at 9:06 pm

      @NotMax: Not everyone’s cup of tea I guess.  I loved it.  But then again I’m a big Michelle Yeoh fan.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Citizen Alan

      March 12, 2023 at 9:07 pm

      @soapdish: I was just about to comment that brendan fraser in that picture looks more like drew carrie than drew carey does now.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Layer8Problem

      March 12, 2023 at 9:09 pm

      I and my partner are not watching the Oscars because we never watch the Oscars.  I hope however everyone watching enjoys it immensely and that any lame acceptance speeches are short and that the Irving Thalberg Award goes to the nicest and most deserving person in all Hollywood.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 9:12 pm

      I’ve only seen two nominees this year: Everything … and Argentina 1985. Though I havn’t seen the competition and have seen these only once, they both look like credible winners to me. Congratulations to Mr. Quan!

      Reply
    13. 13.

      NotMax

      March 12, 2023 at 9:14 pm

      Don’t watch it either.

      People already gearing up to tomorrow bitch about who was left out of the memorial reel.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      soapdish

      March 12, 2023 at 9:17 pm

      @Citizen Alan: And here I was thinking I might just be being a smartass.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 9:18 pm

      @kindness: EEAAO was pretty much in my wheelhouse as a multiverse story. Gulped down the story like candy and was delighted that they didn’t hold back and went for the fences with their choices.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      zhena gogolia

      March 12, 2023 at 9:21 pm

      I haven’t seen anything. I was about to watch Tár, but it had mysteriously disappeared from HBO by the time I got around to it.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      Amir Khalid

      March 12, 2023 at 9:21 pm

      I find awards shows tedious and the Oscars especially so. My only interest in it this year is finding out afterwards if Michelle Yeoh became the first Malaysian to win an Oscar.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      raven

      March 12, 2023 at 9:23 pm

      It’s a new world of God’s and Monster’s. . .

      Reply
    19. 19.

      JPL

      March 12, 2023 at 9:25 pm

      @zhena gogolia: It’s on Peacock, or at least it was a few days ago.  Peacock is worth it if only for Poker Face.  I signed up with commercials.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Brachiator

      March 12, 2023 at 9:26 pm

      @Gwangung:

      EEAAO was pretty much in my wheelhouse as a multiverse story. Gulped down the story like candy and was delighted that they didn’t hold back and went for the fences with their choices.

      I think that in some ways EEAAO was possible because the various Marvel and Sony Spiderman movies made mainstream audiences comfortable with the idea of a multiverse.

      I haven’t seen it yet, but am looking forward to it. I am rooting for Michelle Yeoh because I have admired her work for a long time.

      The only nominated film I saw all year was Top Gun: Maverick. Loved Jennifer Connelly. The movie was just OK, but it was well made.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      NotMax

      March 12, 2023 at 9:27 pm

      @raven

      The Apostrophes Are Coming, the Apostrophes Are Coming.
      :)

      Reply
    22. 22.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 9:31 pm

      @raven: I see what you did there.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 9:34 pm

      Ummmm, chorus boys!!

      Reply
    24. 24.

      raven

      March 12, 2023 at 9:35 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: Just seein if anyone is awake. . .

      Reply
    25. 25.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 9:35 pm

      @raven:   That was a great film.  No desire to see Whale.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      Nelle

      March 12, 2023 at 9:35 pm

      The only movie I saw was Women Talking.  It is excellent and doesn’t have a chance of winning.  I’m startled it was nominated and hope that brings in a bigger audience.  Not watching the show, though.  I got a new book!

      Reply
    27. 27.

      schrodingers_cat

      March 12, 2023 at 9:36 pm

      Deepika Padukone is so beautiful!

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Redshift

      March 12, 2023 at 9:36 pm

      Jamie Lee Curtis’ speech was great, especially the shout out to the massive audience of genre movie fans who have been with her all along.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 9:38 pm

      @schrodingers_cat:   She is.

      Have you seen RRR?

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Betty Cracker

      March 12, 2023 at 9:38 pm

      Not watching as usual, but I am rooting for Yeoh to win for her performance in EEAAO, which was astounding. I wouldn’t be mad if Blanchett won for Tár. Both were awesome, but I give the edge to Yeoh because…damn! I read that Jamie Lee Curtis won best supporting for EEAAO — good! She earned it!

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Mike in NC

      March 12, 2023 at 9:38 pm

      We watched ‘Everything Everywhere…’ last weekend and it was nuts but fascinating. Jamie Lee was awesome in it.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 9:38 pm

      @Brachiator: Yeah, I think that’s very true. EEAAO wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the box, and probably not the critical praise without the Spider-Man movies….and to a lesser extent, all the Marvel movies introducing fantastic concepts….

      Reply
    33. 33.

      raven

      March 12, 2023 at 9:39 pm

      @eclare:
      Lynn Redgrave should have won for that one.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      TaMara

      March 12, 2023 at 9:40 pm

      @Roger MacGuffin: When a comment tells you all you need to know about someone. 😁😘

      Also, pie is good.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      JMG

      March 12, 2023 at 9:41 pm

      @Brachiator: Top Gun: Maverick the only one I saw, too. It was objectively terrible (ripping off the whole mission from Star Wars!) but enjoyable for almost every predictable minute.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      TaMara

      March 12, 2023 at 9:43 pm

      Had to stop what I was doing to watch this magnificence.

      Here’s the energetic performance of “Naatu Naatu” from #RRR at the #Oscars. https://t.co/ndiKiHeOT5 pic.twitter.com/Lf2nP826c4

      — Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023

      Reply
    37. 37.

      TaMara

      March 12, 2023 at 9:44 pm

      @schrodingers_cat: Agree

      Reply
    38. 38.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 9:44 pm

      @Gwangung:   That’s my hesitation about EEAAO, I haven’t seen the Spider Man movies or any of the superhero movies except the first Iron Man, just not my thing.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 9:49 pm

      @eclare: If it’s not your thing, there’s a good chance you won’t enjoy it. The movie isn’t making allowances for the more mundane minded audiences; it centers an audience that knows and is comfortable with wild concepts and puts pedal to the medal, and makes everyone else pick it up as they go along.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 9:51 pm

      Asians sweeping Oscars, black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl, women piloting F-35s – welcome to Biden’s America

      Reply
    41. 41.

      Anyway

      March 12, 2023 at 9:54 pm

      @schrodingers_cat:

      She was charming!

      Reply
    42. 42.

      mapaghimagsik

      March 12, 2023 at 9:54 pm

      To me, EEAAO was a multiverse movie that wasn’t a multiverse movie. I loved it.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 9:55 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: AND I’M HERE FOR IT!!!!

      Reply
    44. 44.

      citizen dave

      March 12, 2023 at 9:58 pm

      I watched EEAAO with no expectations, and really loved it.  Great story excellently-acted and directed, etc., and really touching.  I watch absolutely zero Marvel/superhero movies, and am still just fine with how the multiverses were used in the movie.  Now Christopher Nolan’s Inception, don’t get me started.  What Peter Bradshaw (who I just learned about who he is right now) said about EEAAO, I would apply to Inception.  All of our mileage certainly does vary  :)

      Assuming Michelle Yeoh wins, it will be the first movie to win 3 actor awards since…1976, Network.

      Like eclare I watched about 10 minutes of Elvis before bailing.  It was ridiculously bad, especially the two leads.  Hey, Hanks won a Razzie for it last night!

      Saw Baz Lurhman on the red carpet tonight and understand more why I can’t fathom his musicals.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      Jay

      March 12, 2023 at 10:01 pm

      @JMG:

      saw Top Gun, Maverick on a free Paramount stream, s’okay, but then I learned it was financed in a large part by a Russian Ogliarch/ sanctioned Putin Fluffer,

      Glad it got $0 from me.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 10:03 pm

      @Jay:   Oh, I did not know that!

      Reply
    47. 47.

      Brachiator

      March 12, 2023 at 10:04 pm

      @TaMara:

      This is very cool. I used to watch video clips of Indian movies on channel 18 in Los Angeles. Great to see this production on national TV.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      CaseyL

      March 12, 2023 at 10:04 pm

      The best Oscar viewings I’ve ever had were the (rare) times I was at a party where everyone was a movie nut, and we’d all watch the telecast with eager anticipation and lots of snark.

      Haven’t watched the award show in its entirety for, well, years.  The glory of the internet means I can see just the parts I really want to.  It also means I can follow in real-time via the live bloggers.

      I’ve been wanting to see EEAAO since I first saw the trailer, but not enough to actually go to a theater.  Waiting for it to stream on one of the services I subscribe to.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      delphinium

      March 12, 2023 at 10:06 pm

      @citizen dave: I’m 1 of the probably 5 people who actually liked Baz’s Moulin Rouge. But I enjoy over-the-top musicals, and would watch Ewan McGregor read a phone book. Though I get his style isn’t for everyone-haven’t seen Elvis.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 10:06 pm

      I don’t watch movies but I like watching the Oscars just to see how often they show their asses. Case in point: giving the award for makeup to fatphobic bullshit.

      So jazzed for Jamie Lee Curtis, though. An icon and a badass and a total babe

      ETA do gotta give a thumbs-up to Hugh Grant for giving us probably the first use of the word scrotum at the Oscars though

      Reply
    51. 51.

      delphinium

      March 12, 2023 at 10:07 pm

      @TaMara: Awesome!

      Reply
    52. 52.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 10:10 pm

      @schrodingers_cat:  Was that the lady in the stunning dress who introduced the song?  Oh, to look like that for a night!

      (I’m reminded of a cute story about Cary Grant. He was attending some show for which a friend had left tickets. The agent didn’t have anything for Mr. Leach, so the suggestion, try “Cary Grant.” The best the flustered agent could do was blurt out, “But you didn’t look like Cary Grant.” To which he replied, “Nobody does.”)

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 10:10 pm

      @Alison Rose:

      Case in point: giving the award for makeup to fatphobic bullshit.

      Yep. It’s unfortunate The Whale was Brendan Fraser’s come back movie.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 10:13 pm

      @prostratedragon:   That is a cute story about Cary Grant.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 10:13 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: Agreed. But it was obvious Oscar bait. They sure love to love pretend fat people and not actual fat people.

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Matt McIrvin

      March 12, 2023 at 10:15 pm

      @eclare: While EEAAO is wild, gonzo science-fiction film, it’s not a superhero movie in any real sense. It is extremely funny, which is one way to get audiences to accept the bizarre premise, and has elements of martial-arts cinema though that’s not its primary focus either. It ultimately becomes a touching story about family and the need for kindness and acceptance in a tough world, which may or may not be your thing as well.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      lol chikinburd

      March 12, 2023 at 10:15 pm

      If Jamie Lee Curtis won, then Stephanie Hsu was robbed.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Gvg

      March 12, 2023 at 10:16 pm

      Huh, I have known multiverse stories for…I don’t know, at least 30 years. I never thought of the Spider-Man movies as introducing anyone to the concept of multiverses. I think it was some Heinlan stories but I quickly found he wasn’t the first, it went back further, and yeah both DC and Marvel wrote about it  a lot in the 70’s if not earlier. I think writers in other countries did it too but I am only mono lingual. I didn’t think most people hadn’t already encountered the concept.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 10:17 pm

      @Matt McIrvin:   I like movies about kindness and acceptance, and so many people have raved about it that I will check it out.  Plus I love Jamie Lee Curtis.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:21 pm

      This movie on Oppenheimer looks explosive

      Reply
    61. 61.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 10:21 pm

      @Matt McIrvin:  Who among us hasn’t found themselves on the threshold of the multiverse when faced with even just one of Evelyn’s predicaments.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 10:22 pm

      @lol chikinburd: Politics play a big role at the Academy. Jamie Lee Curtis was excellent, but part of it was essentially a life-time achievement award — it’s the first Oscar she’s ever won.

      Likewise, Ke Hue Quan was clearly a sentimental favorite. Not dismissing his performance either, but the “kid actor, leaves acting, has a second chance decades later” is total bait to Academy members.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 10:24 pm

      God all this silly shit is tedious.

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Matt McIrvin

      March 12, 2023 at 10:25 pm

      @Gvg: The concept is old hat to science-fiction and superhero comics fans. DC Comics started messing around with it in the 60s as a way of bringing back old versions of their current heroes.

      But I recall that when Back to the Future 2 came out, some film critics were baffled by the plot and did not get that the middle section of the movie took place in 1985 in an altered timeline, even though the movie stops for a while at that point so Doc Brown can literally draw us a diagram of the plot so far.

      Really, they ought to have gotten the basic idea from It’s A Wonderful Life.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 10:26 pm

      @eclare: Definitely not a superhero movie in any conventional sense. Nor really a sci-fi movie either, nor a martial arts movie. Though it has elements of all of them.

      It’s over the top bonkers, like nothing you’ve probably seen, but as @Matt McIrvin: it’s ultimately a story about family and redemption.

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm

      @lol chikinburd: Yeah, this was an Old Hollywood vote. Stephanie did a great job, who wasn’t nearly as recognized as she should have been (and to think, I first knew her as an off-Broadway production)

      (Oh, I also have another connection…an acquaintance of mine did the dub of Michelle Yeoh’s voice as the Cantonese opera singer, and she was out of her mind going to tonight’s show live).

      @Sister Golden Bear: Oh, yeah. Ke Huy Quan’s win was totally locked in as a story Hollywood is a sucker for (notwithstanding the fact that Ke was locked out of Hollywood by the lack of parts for Asian actors and the utter blindness of casting people to the worth of an actor they threw away for over three decades).

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 10:29 pm

      @Alison Rose:

      God all this silly shit is tedious.

      It wouldn’t be the Oscars without tedious silly shit.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 10:31 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: I know, but some of it is so cringe that it’s almost painful. I sincerely hope they at least let Malala in on what was gonna happen there, because it didn’t look like it to me and that makes me uncomfortable.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 12, 2023 at 10:31 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear: I enjoyed the Cocaine Bear stuff.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:33 pm

      I wish Oscar was brave enough to let the hilarious and unconventional  Aubrey Plaza host.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 10:33 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear:   I just checked, and it’s on Showtime, which I get.  I will def give it a shot with no expectations going in.  Thanks!

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Sure Lurkalot

      March 12, 2023 at 10:34 pm

      @TaMara: Have no idea why I’m watching as I only saw a couple of the shorts but I did see the Naatu Naatu performance and it was fantastic!

      Reply
    73. 73.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:37 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: ​
      not to mention she has incredible legs (photo)

      Reply
    74. 74.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:39 pm

      @Omnes Omnibus: ​
        I thought cheeseheads didn’t like the Bears

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 12, 2023 at 10:41 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: We don’t like the Bears.  A single Bear is fine.​

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Jim, Foolish Literalist

      March 12, 2023 at 10:44 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear:

      Jamie Lee Curtis was excellent, but part of it was essentially a life-time achievement award —

      I had the same thought, Hollywood royalty, becoming increasingly beloved over the last few years, and Oscar voters do seem to love it when a glamorous actor plays frumpy

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Old Dan and Little Ann

      March 12, 2023 at 10:44 pm

      I commented weeks ago that we had to shut off Everything movie halfway through because it was so ridiculous.  Many people commented that the 2nd half improved so we watched the latter half the next night.  Still stupid.  That movie sucks.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      guachi

      March 12, 2023 at 10:45 pm

      @JMG: Star Wars ripped off the plot from Dam Busters (1955).

      Reply
    79. 79.

      satby

      March 12, 2023 at 10:46 pm

      Irish Twitter is excited for two Irish films nominated, especially the one in the Irish language Quiet Girl. Which is very good, BTW. Link added.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      The Up and Up

      March 12, 2023 at 10:46 pm

      @NotMax:
      My brother and his friends forced themselves to complete it.
      The rest of us later viewed as a friend who taught Intro to Film at a community college raved “Everything ..” was the best thing he had ever seen. The instructor was known around campus for having awarded an “A” to a student who created a montage. “James Joyce is actually interpretive dance,” the student began. And then they gyrated on stage.
      I agree with my brother that someone could make a whole sequel just on Jamie Lee Curtis’s Deirdre Beaubeirdre. That would be entertainment.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Brachiator

      March 12, 2023 at 10:48 pm

      @prostratedragon:

      (I’m reminded of a cute story about Cary Grant. He was attending some show for which a friend had left tickets. The agent didn’t have anything for Mr. Leach, so the suggestion, try “Cary Grant.” The best the flustered agent could do was blurt out, “But you didn’t look like Cary Grant.” To which he replied, “Nobody does.”)

      Years ago a coworker saw Grant sitting in a baby blue Rolls Royce. He looked enough like Cary Grant to make her nearly faint.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:49 pm

      Cocaine Bear – people in the theatre were laughing so hard they were snorting

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Gary K

      March 12, 2023 at 10:50 pm

      @raven:

      Just seein if anyone is awake. . .

      I’m woke — does that count?

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 10:52 pm

      @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

      Oscar voters do seem to love it when a glamorous actor plays frumpy

      Oh absolutely. Or disabled. Or when a cis actor plays a trans character. (At least Hillary Swank has since said that in retrospect Boys Don’t Cry should’ve cast a trans actor.)*

      *BTW, I know an extremely talented and highly trans actor who plays both female and male roles. Cast her!

      Reply
    85. 85.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 10:56 pm

      Wow – Sarah Polly

      Loved her in “Go“

      Reply
    86. 86.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 10:58 pm

      Namaste!

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 10:58 pm

      Okay, that was cute as heck :) That song slaps, too

      Reply
    88. 88.

      eclare

      March 12, 2023 at 11:02 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:    She was also excellent in The Sweet Hereafter, a small but haunting film.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      The Up and Up

      March 12, 2023 at 11:03 pm

      @Sister Golden Bear:
      That reminds me of Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) bemoaning his lack of Oscar prospects in Bowfinger. He tells his agent to go find the script for “Buck the Wonder Slave.”

      Reply
    90. 90.

      schrodingers_cat

      March 12, 2023 at 11:04 pm

      @prostratedragon: Yep, she is the reigning goddess of Hindi movies.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      schrodingers_cat

      March 12, 2023 at 11:07 pm

      @eclare: Not yet.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 11:11 pm

      Screen Actors Guild did a better job at honouring lost artists

      (video)

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 11:11 pm

      Okay, Idris Elba and Nicole Kidman (in THAT dress) together is a little too much. Whew.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 11:13 pm

      Someone needs to create a special Dan-Dan recipe.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 11:15 pm

      The Davids acceptance speech! Why is it suddenly so dusty in here?

      Reply
    96. 96.

      Gwangung

      March 12, 2023 at 11:19 pm

      The Daniels drag the GOP in the best way possible. And THAT will get universal acceptance here.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 11:24 pm

      Boo hiss

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Alison Rose

      March 12, 2023 at 11:30 pm

      “ladies don’t let anyone tell you you’re past your prime” HELL YES, TELL IT, MICHELLE

      Reply
    99. 99.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 11:31 pm

      That was a whale of a speech

      Reply
    100. 100.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 11:34 pm

      Et le fait, c’est accomplit!

      Reply
    101. 101.

      Sister Golden Bear

      March 12, 2023 at 11:34 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: <rim shot>

      Reply
    102. 102.

      Dan B

      March 12, 2023 at 11:36 pm

      Where’s Amir?  Michelle Yeoh is from KL – Kuala Lumpur!!  Wow!!!

      And Schroedingers Cat.  Winners from India too!

      Reply
    103. 103.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 11:39 pm

      I’ve seen all three incarnations of All Quiet on the Western Front and the 1979 version is the best, hands down.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      March 12, 2023 at 11:41 pm

      Another chapter in immigrants getting the job done

      Reply
    105. 105.

      prostratedragon

      March 12, 2023 at 11:43 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:  The 1930 Lewis Milestone version on TCM later tnight.

      Reply
    106. 106.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 12, 2023 at 11:56 pm

      This was on tonight?  Oh.

      Reply
    107. 107.

      eversor

      March 12, 2023 at 11:57 pm

      @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:

       

      At times certain things are good enough they should be remade, even if they don’t have to be, for the next generation to grasp them.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      Fair Economist

      March 13, 2023 at 12:11 am

      @delphinium: You’re not that alone. Both I and my husband really enjoyed Moulin Rouge.

      Reply
    109. 109.

      C Stars

      March 13, 2023 at 12:17 am

      I saw EEAAO twice in the theater–once with a group of people who loved it and once with a group who really didn’t get it/didn’t like it (the fact that I went twice will tell you which camp I am in). I think the same reason the second group didn’t like it is the very reason why I am so happy and surprised that the Academy went all in on it. It’s a different kind of story and told in a different way and that is so refreshing. The Oscars really are insufferably cheesy and establishment but EEAAO’s victory is a good sign that things are changing.

      Reply
    110. 110.

      Yutsano

      March 13, 2023 at 12:22 am

      @Fair Economist: ​Count me in the I enjoyed Moulin Rouge as a bit of a camp fest but still overall quite fun. I will admit that singing is more her spouse’s gig but Nicole did just fine in the singing department.​​
       

      EDIT: FYWP.

      Reply
    111. 111.

      Omnes Omnibus

      March 13, 2023 at 12:25 am

      @delphinium: ​
        I, on the other hand, could not wait for Kidman’s character to die so the movie could finally end.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      Gwangung

      March 13, 2023 at 12:27 am

      FINALLY.

      There are now more Asian women who have won Oscars for playing Asian characters than white women who’ve won for playing Asian characters.

      Reply
    113. 113.

      Amir Khalid

      March 13, 2023 at 12:31 am

      @Dan B:

      Actually, she’s from Ipoh, in Perak state. But it’s a proud day for all us Malaysians.

      Reply
    114. 114.

      Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

      March 13, 2023 at 12:31 am

      I really need to see Everything Everywhere All At Once. The Many Worlds premise sounds pretty cool

      Reply
    115. 115.

      Fair Economist

      March 13, 2023 at 12:36 am

      @Yutsano: The camp fest was a lot of the point of Moulin Rouge.  Much as with many Bollywood movies.

      Reply
    116. 116.

      Fair Economist

      March 13, 2023 at 12:40 am

      @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I just saw EEAAO last night and liked it. And I generally don’t like movies anymore.

      One thing that I think may have counted in it doing so well is the enormous amount of work that must have gone into the “multiverse” shots – scenes where some of the characters appear in dozens of different scenes within seconds. I was frequently thinking “how did they DO that?” And the Academy likes technical filmmaking prowess.

      Reply
    117. 117.

      NotMax

      March 13, 2023 at 12:44 am

      @Gvg

      Yup. For DC, Earth-2 was introduced in Flash #123 back in 1961 and the universes grew like Topsy on steroids ever since..

      Reply
    118. 118.

      cain

      March 13, 2023 at 12:47 am

      @prostratedragon: ​
       
      See the movie Om Shanti Om on Netflix for her debut in Indian cinema. It’s a great movie and easy entertainment. It pokes fun at itself and at Indian cinema.

      Reply
    119. 119.

      NotMax

      March 13, 2023 at 12:50 am

      @Fair Economist

      See: sequence from Buster Keaton’s ThePlayhouse, 1921.

      Reply
    120. 120.

      prostratedragon

      March 13, 2023 at 12:50 am

      @cain:  Thanks, will check it out.  From my limited exposure to Indian movies I have the impression that they’re often briskly tongue-in-cheek.

      Reply
    121. 121.

      Craig

      March 13, 2023 at 2:00 am

      @Roger MacGuffin: oh. I just got here, way late. You’re an idiot.

      Reply
    122. 122.

      PJ

      March 13, 2023 at 2:20 am

      @Old Dan and Little Ann: Try paying attention.

      Reply
    123. 123.

      YY_Sima Qian

      March 13, 2023 at 2:57 am

      Been decades since I paid attention to the Oscars. I think the last time was when the Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King swept the awards. Very glad that EEAAO did so well. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, & am a fan of Michelle Yeoh.

      On a side node, Top Gun: Maverick as a Best Picture nominee? Come on! I get the nostalgia factor. As a  FOB immigrant to the US in 1990, very young, male & high on testosterone, I discovered original Top Gun & was obsessed w/ it through high school. I enjoyed Maverick for the nostalgia factor, but Best Picture?

      Reply
    124. 124.

      Msb

      March 13, 2023 at 4:39 am

      Very happy with most of the wins, and really want to see EEAAO and Women Talking.
      still pretty mad that a white actress’s powerful white friends got her nominated, and not Viola Davis for The Woman King or especially Danielle Deadwyler for Till.

      Reply
    125. 125.

      Jeffg166

      March 13, 2023 at 5:24 am

      The library had the DVD of Everything Everywhere at Once. No idea when the movie was in theatrical release. Got it because it had been nominated. Had no idea what it was about. Really liked it.

      Reply
    126. 126.

      evodevo

      March 13, 2023 at 10:06 am

      @soapdish: I just watched Brendan in a tv show Professionals, and I hadn’t seen him since the Mummy movies…whoops…

      Reply

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