9/28/2023 0 Comments Oscar awkward moments![]() Or the length of that surely essential White Men Can’t Jump reunion bit. The move, which provoked a tidal wave of anger from the industry leading up to the ceremony, probably ended up saving about four minutes total of telecast time. ![]() The winners – including Riz Ahmed, who won the Best Live Action Short Oscar alongside Aneil Karia for their film The Long Goodbye – gave speeches that no one saw in full outside of whoever happened to be inside the Dolby Theatre, with slightly condensed versions instead aired throughout. Those statuettes were instead awarded just before the broadcast, during which ABC elected to instead air extraordinarily vapid red-carpet coverage that would make Joan Rivers spin in her grave (don’t worry, she’d like that joke!). Speech overreach: In a misguided bid to shorten the ceremony, this year’s Oscar producers cut the live presentation of awards for a slew of categories, including such, oh, minor things like Best Original Score, Best Editing and Best Makeup/Hairstyling. only topped when Smith shortly thereafter won Best Actor for King Richard, during which he opened his speech/justified his violence by saying, “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family.” Good luck with this one for the next few days, cultural discourse. The Badīetween Chris Rock and a hard place: No, it wasn’t just your choppy CTV connection: The show’s sound cut off for what felt like a very long five seconds after Will Smith walked on-stage and smacked presenter Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith looking like “GI Jane 2.” Uncensored footage that was caught on international feeds (and quickly spread on Twitter) showed Rock saying, “Will Smith just smacked the out of me,” with Smith shouting, “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth!” A genuinely rattled Rock added, “That was, uh, the greatest night in the history of television.” It was something alright. “So if anyone has ever questioned your identity, I promise you this – there is indeed a place for us,” she told the audience. Earlier in the evening, West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose became the first openly queer woman of colour to win a statuette. ![]() History, made: The supporting performer categories featured two touching and historic moments, with CODA’s Troy Kotsur becoming only the second deaf performer (after his CODA co-star Marlee Matlin won in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God) taking home an Oscar, and giving a heartfelt acceptance speech in American Sign Language, his words translated by an emotional announcer. ![]() Troy Kotsur wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in CODA at the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 27. “It feels so good to be alive,” Beyoncé declared. The tennis ball colour-coded performance was excellently choreographed, intricately shot and goose-bump thrilling. Sunday night’s show kicked off with Venus and Serena Williams, sorta-subjects of the Oscar-nominated King Richard, introducing an off-site performance by Beyoncé, who sang Be Alive from a tennis court in nearby-ish Compton. King Richard, meet Queen Beyoncé: Well, that’s one heck of a way to make audiences forget Billy Crystal. Oscars 2022: Six simple steps to save the dumpster fire Academy Awards, and Hollywood, too The Good Here are the highs, lows and many head-scratching moments in-between that made Sunday night such an instantly infamous affair.Ĭoda wins best picture at Oscars rocked by Will Smith punch Will Smith), and culminating with a barely there Liza Minnelli announcing that CODA won Best Picture, the telecast was a glitzy car crash of epic proportions, captivating and bewildering, entertaining and infuriating. Kicking off with a genuinely great performance by Beyoncé before nose-diving in almost every fashion (hello Chris Rock vs. The good-bad news is that the 94th Academy Awards delivered on those dumpster-fire expectations, and then some. How could you not be down to witness such a sure-fire gong show? Terrible COVID-19 jokes! An uproar over category cuts! Sports stars who have nothing to do with movies! And then there was wild-card BA.2′s effect on the guest list (sorry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who stayed home after his wife tested positive just before the show). Going into Sunday night’s Oscars, I was mystified by those who proclaimed to have no interest in watching the ceremony.
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