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I'm watching #Oscars2019 highlights for my Contemporary American Cinema class tomorrow so please forgive me a late thread on the ceremony and awards.
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Regina King wins Best Supporting Actress. Historically, Best Supporting Actress has been the category with the most black nominees (and wins, I think) across Oscar history. Arguably that says something about how Hollywood perceives women-of-colour.
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The Best Production Design acceptance speech was lovely. The Academy and The Academy Awards are structurally flawed and embedded in white supremacist capitalist patriarchy but the winners on stage are up there having emotional highlights of their lives. That's beautiful.
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Nice for Cuarón to get to go up on stage for winning Best Cinematography after he stood up for the category being presented not-during-the-ads.
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Best Foreign Language film goes to Roma (2018) which is, as I've written elsewhere, a perfect crystal sphere of a film. medium.com/@SimonXIX/and-the-academy-award-for-best-picture-goes-to-49afbeb91bd3
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Can I watch a cut of A Star Is Born (2018) that only features Sam Elliott's scenes?
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Again, a powerful emphasis on representation in the speech from Best Animated Feature Film winners for Into The Spider-Verse (2018). The importance of kids seeing people that look like them up on screen.
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Pixar wins Best Animated Short for Bao which I hope means they'll make it available online again because I really want to watch it.
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Period. End of Sentence. (2018) wins for Best Documentary Short. It's about the importance of low-cost sanitary pads to women in rural India where stigma about menstruation still exists and is currently available on Netflix.
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Between Best Documentary Short and Best Foreign-Language Film, it's a good night for Netflix productions and shows a begrudging acceptance of the platform's productions on the part of the Academy.
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Samuel L. Jackson's genuine delight at BlacKkKlansman's (2018) win for Best Adapted Screenplay is really lovely @KissMyLocs/1099879704914321408
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It's those kinds of spontaneous delightful moments of emotion (and politics as Spike Lee accepted the award) that make the Oscars meaningful despite all the regressive nonsense and conservatism of the Academy and Hollywood.
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I can't believe the Best Original Score #Oscars went to Goblin's score for Suspiria (1977) for the 42nd year in a row. Incredible scenes.
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This isn't much of a p-p-p-poker face 🤣🤣🤣 @MarkRonson/1099908407891419136 This has been a Lady Gaga joke.
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It's weird that the clip they show of Rami Malek ahead of Best Actor in a Leading Role is him singing and so doesn't feature Malek's voice (or at least is an amalgamation of sources on top of Malek's voice) bustle.com/p/does-rami-malek-really-sing-in-bohemian-rhapsody-heres-how-freddie-mercurys-legendary-voice-was-recreated-12800650
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Enough people have said but, oh my goodness, Olivia Colman's acceptance speech. Again, just a lovely moment of real emotion. That's important and meaningful and soulful despite the nonsense of the Oscars <3
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Olivia Colman's press room speech is equally charming youtube.com/watch?v=NyH9T2AM-Vg&feature=youtu.be
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