good luck to the bloke
though I thought it was a good film, not a great film. Decent premise executed well with some humour, but it must be a thin year if that's sweeping the board. Can't help but think after being stung by the backlash against their lack of diversity in recent years, there's an element of overcompensating and perhaps an eye to restoring their reputation in their voting choices. Still, it's only an awards show.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Mar 2023, 21:06,
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Wasn't the Academy awards originally conceived as a kind of self-contained movie industry recognition thing?
Like, cinematographers would all vote for what film had the best cinematography sound guys for which film had the best sound production, etc?
It seems that somewhere along the way, the public decided that if a film won lots of Oscars, then it must be some indication that it's a very good film, which has been proven numerous times is definitely not always the case.
Fuck knows what the criteria really is these days. It feels massively insincere, though. A bit like the Red Dot Design Awards. Or Eurovision.
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there a fuck ton of members, i think almost 2000, and it's by nomination of two existing members so it was a bit of club
in the last five years they've imposed quotas for women and 'people of color', but given that they only let in 2 or three dozen each year I don't think the overall makeup of the Academy being old white male industry types has changed. They kicked out Cosby, but they also kicked out Wienstein so balance was maintained.
But I think being a mostly liberal group the #oscarssowhite might have stung a bit, because it was valid. so when face with choosing say, between Blanchetts tour de force in Tar and Yeoh good performance, I reckon there might have something in the back of their mind thinking "we'll get a lot of good headlines if we opt for yeoh, and maybe people will stop calling us a bunch of racist cunts". not in a conspiracy way, just human nature and people not wanting to be seen as the bad guy in a low stakes choice
And that's how it panned out. The headline in my paper today was "First South-East Asian Actor to win best Actor". Not "yeoh wins award". Maybe I'm cynical. Any artistic award is going to be debatable and subjective, and theres been worse choices.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 13 Mar 2023, 23:17,
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I'm chuffed for Michelle Yeoh, as she comes across as genuinely warm and lovely. But I've never been a massive fan of her acting.
She's always felt a bit wooden and monotone to me, which is probably a bit of an unfair criticism considering that English isn't her native tongue and she's not nearly as hard work as Hiam Abbass in that regard.
I've been meaning to watch EEAAO for bloody ages, but allocating 140 minutes to sit down and watch a film is proving difficult currently. So I'll reserve judgement until then, but I'd be very surprised if her performance is superior to Andrea Riseborough's.
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It's actually really good and she's splendid as 'Asian mom'
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 16 Mar 2023, 3:33,
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I don't know if it's a conscious thing
or a group of people reacting positively to something that resonates with them.
When all's said and done Hollywood is a deeply, deeply sentimental place and loves nothing more than a story of success to failure to success again and Quan's journey from child actor to years in the wilderness to success... well... let's say it's very VERY Hollywood.
And from a PR perspective I think they got it bang-on. In his speech screaming "this is the American dream" well, that's what they want and to be honest it't the best fantasy going. Why not indulge a few moments of delusion and enjoy the ham!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 14 Mar 2023, 14:12,
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i agree and I'm not upset or invested in the awards, just me speculating
Brendan Fraser has a compelling backstory too, as he happened to reveal while his film was in contention he was abused as a child actor. That's a nice story arc, suffering to redemption. Ovation. fade to end credits
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 14 Mar 2023, 22:07,
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We appear to have had a polite conversation
how did this happen? I thought it was all waaah!! waaah!! waaah! in here these days?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 15 Mar 2023, 9:15,
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There is quite a lot of that above.
Suffice to say I wouldn't look to these grumpy bastards for film recommendations.
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