Oscars 2021

[Small Man Big Horse]

I haven't seen enough of them to comment for the majority of the categories, bar Best Animated Film where I've seen all of them, and I really hope Wolfwalkers wins as it's a lovely little movie. Soul and Onward are decent Pixar efforts but not the studio at its best, while fun the Shaun The Sheep sequel isn't up there with the most enjoyable kids films, and the same applies with Over The Moon.

[BritishHobo]

Having seen next-to-none of the films due to lockdown, I've gone a bit mad this week and had a full-on intensive marathon which has resulted in me watching more nominated films than I ever have before. With the exception of International Feature Film, I've seen the majority of films in all the categories (and all the films in most).

In my defence I did try my best with International Film, but when the red carpet began tonight, I was only twenty minutes into Better Days, so I had to admit defeat. I've seen only 2 out of the 5 in that category.

Too fucking brain-mushed to give any real thoughts, but I'd be fairly happy for anything other than Mank to win Best Picture.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Surely David Fincher is aware of how close the title of his mediocre film is to Wank - he's just toying with us at this point!

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

This in-person Oscars ceremony is already the most depressing thing I've ever seen. Feels like a school cafeteria.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

This is the most po faced awards show of all time. Never knew I would miss the presence of a Ricky Gervais.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Here's the full list for anyone who is interested:

Best original screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best adapted screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father – WINNER
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger

Best international feature film
Another Round – WINNER
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best actor in a supporting role
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
Leslie Odom, Jr, One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best makeup and hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – WINNER
Mank
Pinocchio

Best costume design
Emma
Mank
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – WINNER
Mulan
Pinocchio

Jean Hersholt humanitarian award
MPTF (Motion Picture & Television Fund)

Best director
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER

Best sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Sound of Metal – WINNER
Soul

Best live-action short film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers – WINNER
White Eye

Best animated short film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You – WINNER
Opera
Yes-People

Best animated feature film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul – WINNER
Wolfwalkers

Best documentary short
Colette – WINNER
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha

Best documentary
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
Time

Best visual effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet – WINNER

Best actress in a supporting role
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari – WINNER

Best production design
The Father
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
Tenet

Best cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best film editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal – WINNER
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Jean Hersholt humanitarian award
Tyler Perry

Best original score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul – WINNER

Best original song
Husavik, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Fight For You, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
Io Sì (Seen), The Life Ahead
Speak Now, One Night in Miami
Hear My Voice, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland – WINNER
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best actress in a leading role
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland – WINNER
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best actor in a leading role
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father – WINNER
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari

Fucked off that Wolfwalkers didn't win, but as mentioned above I haven't seen enough of the others to really care.

[Bad Ambassador]

Interesting that the ceremony had been structured to put Best Actor last, on the assumption that Chadwick Boseman would win and there would be another tribute to the imaginary career he might have had - except Anthony Hopkins won, he wasn't there, and the show abruptly ended.

[chveik]

Best cinematography
Wank - WINNER

kin hell

[Blue Jam]

Don't generally care about the Oscars but I am pleased that Tealeaf won one. I felt the same way when Sophie from Peep Show won one. Good for them.

[neveragain]

The most badly designed (in terms of set, graphics) and dullest ceremony ever. Boring hosts. And the zippiest most inappropriately upbeat Memoriam you could imagine.

[falafel]

Don't generally care about the Oscars but I am pleased that Tealeaf won one. I felt the same way when Sophie from Peep Show won one. Good for them.

Yes, he'll always be Tealeaf first and foremost for me, despite this and his terrifying turn in Widows.

[mothman]

It was weird enough when Bev of Bev'n'Kev from that car advert won an Oscar. Now, we have Parking Patawayo and the cute redhead lesbian Midwife winning them too. It really is like a WTF, "go home 21st Century, you're drunk" turn of events.

[Blue Jam]

I'm hoping Benedict Wong and Ben Whishaw win Oscars next, so I can think "Awww, nice one Errol and Pingu.

[falafel]

OK, OK, OK but. There is something tying Sophie, Tealeaf and Errol together - all characters so naive and superficially earnest and so well played that (having watched them when I was around 20-25 and being a bit of a fuckwit) I identified them with their actors completely and assumed the people playing them didn't have any range whatsoever.

I think Whishaw will have to wait a decade or two, he's in the middle period, but Benedict Wong's best is yet to come.

[Prison Biscuits]

Never knew I would miss the presence of a Ricky Gervais.

Let's not say things we can't take back.