Elated that Green Book won Best Picture! along with Mahershala Ali as Best Supporting Actor, and for Best Original Screenplay. The Best Picture should always be something uplifting and inspiring I believe, and Green Book hits the mark.
Roma also won three awards: Best Director for Alfonson Cuarón, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Language Film. Roma is a good movie, I’m fascinated by Cuarón’s choices, and it will go down in history as a really groundbreaking film.
Sadly, Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite, nudging out Glenn Close for her stellar performance in The Wife. It’s not that Olivia’s acting wasn’t good; it’s just that it was such a waste of time to watch such drivel.
Black Panther won three awards: Costume Design, Original Score and Production Design. I was surprised about Best Original Score. I could pretty much agree with the other two.
Bohemian Rhapsody cleaned up with four awards: Best Actor for Rami Malek (I still say no one else could have played Freddie), Best Film Editing, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing.
BlacKkKlansman won only for Best Adapted Screenplay. Finally Spike Lee gets an Oscar. About time.
I didn’t see If Beale Street Could Talk. Regina King, a very fine actress, won Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
Vice won only for Makeup and Hairstyling. Haven’t seen it and don’t care to.
The song Shallow from A Star is Born won for Best Original Song. The duet by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga during the show was really very sweet.
Free Solo won for Best Documentary Feature. I haven’t seen it yet, and I didn’t see the Live Action and Documentary Shorts. The winner for Documentary Short looks real interesting though. I will try to find it. It is called Period. End of Sentence. and is about women and girls in India.
Best Animated Feature was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
First Man won Best Visual Effects, and lastly, the delightful animated short film Bao won. Creative and touching it is.
So, that’s my wrap-up for this year. I’ll be posting reviews over the next few weeks of some of the films I saw that I didn’t get time to post prior to the show. What are you glad and sad about over this year’s Oscars?
I didn’t mind the hostless Oscars and I enjoyed Queen with Adam Lambert but I didn’t think Rami should have won. I only saw Bradley Cooper’s role and thought he did a great job..much better than Rami. He did. Good job as Freddie Mercury but I wasn’t bowled over by it. I wished that Mary Poppins would have won for best score since this was an actual musical. I wrote up my own reflections on Oscar night.
ReplyDeleteYes, I thought it worked well not having a host. I enjoyed your Oscar reflections! Now I'm on to more creative writing!
DeleteHi Sue - I've yet to see Green Book and Roma ... but I can't complain - at least a Brit won something!! Loved the rabbit dress ... that was fun ... and thanks for putting all these up here for us ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteOlivia Colman is a good actress, that is clear. Happy movie watching!
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