Anyone watching the Oscars?

[Fantine]

I'm a little behind, still catching up on Red Carpet, so I won't have any spoilers.

Mel Gibson and Andrew Garfield spoke so lovingly about their experience filming "Hacksaw Ridge." What an important movie about courage and compassion--all in one amazing individual. I have to admit I always kind of root for the substantive movies. "Hidden Figures" and "Hacksaw Ridge" are my favorites.

It doesn't sound as if there will be many surprises in the acting categories. I am a huge Viola Davis fan ever since she exploded on to the screen as the mother of a sexually abused boy in "Doubt" (her first Oscar nomination). She was unforgettable--looking forward to seeing "Fences."

It seems as if it's Casey Affleck's Oscar to lose, but I was wowed by Andrew Garfield's performance in "Hacksaw Ridge." We'll see. I'm just up to Justin Timberlake's opener now--and haven't heard any politics yet.

But if there is, bring it on!

 

[Cimorene]

I just started watching it. I'm cheering for the lady reading the speech for the winner of the best foreign film who is from Iran!

I'll have to watch clips from earlier in the show on YT.

 

[Martinius]

My wife has been watching, I just came in the room. Viola Davis won, "Fences" is good, with excellent acting, but it is a better play than a movie. It left a lot hanging.

Will probably have one eye on the Oscars for awhile but still do other stuff, like catch up here.

 

[Cimorene]

I liked Sting's song & the quote about the moral courage of journalism!!!

 

[Fantine]

I had heard the producer from Iran wasn't attending because he was from one of the countries that were affected by Trump's travel ban. I know the arts community wishes he had been able to feel, morally, that he could attend.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

I'm just turning it on................. right now.,

 

[John Hyperspace]

And the Oscar for "Movie you went into thinking was going to be a yielding Darcy Bussellish feel-good calm of spirit-soaring heartwarm, and were sucker punched into a relentless Mike Tysonish devastating fury of soul-crushing heartbreak goes to ... Manchester by the Sea!" *cue Oscar music*

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

Do you think the host is funny?

 

[Fantine]

Not the best...

It would be hard to top James Corden at the 2016 Tony's--I will always judge future awards hosts by that amazing performance...

I will never forget his rapid-fire journey through every top Broadway musical in history, singing an astonishing array of roles, just wow! (Tried to find it on You Tube and they wanted $4.99 for it...) Anyway, here is the opener from the Tony's.

Billy Crystal was one of my favorite award hosts...Amy Poehler and Tina Fey...Hugh Jackman (be still my heart...)

 

[crossnote]

Last Oscars I watched...the two started fighting.

 

[Godlovesmetwo]

What a huge error!! How would the cast and director of La La Land feel now?

 

[Fantine]

While they would like to have won the Oscar, they still have plenty of awards and a feel-good picture that will be an instant classic. They can afford to he gracious.

 

[Michie]

Ha! Fish right?

Last Oscars I watched...the two started fighting.

 

[SistrNChrist]

I'm not a fan of watching them much, because all those political speeches, and that goes for every political viewpoint out there, seem out of place on an awards show. If I wanted to watch people go on and on about politics, I'd have tuned in to CNN, Fox, or C-Span, not The Oscars.

 

[crossnote]

I'm not a fan of watching them much, because all those political speeches, and that goes for every political viewpoint out there, seem out of place on an awards show. If I wanted to watch people go on and on about politics, I'd have tuned in to CNN, Fox, or C-Span, not The Oscars.

Right, you know a nation is in trouble when every (non political) event is turned into a political platform.

 

[SistrNChrist]

Right, you know a nation is in trouble when every (non political) event is turned into a political platform.

Straight out of the book Rules for Radicals...never let any crisis/event go to waste.

 

[crossnote]

Straight out of the book Rules for Radicals...never let any crisis/event go to waste.

I guess Alinsky was in good company with Churchill.. A quote by Winston S. Churchill