{"id":9752,"date":"2019-02-22T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:36:55","slug":"its-oscars-weekend-predictions-thoughts-on-the-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2019\/02\/22\/its-oscars-weekend-predictions-thoughts-on-the-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Oscars Weekend! Predictions & Thoughts on the Academy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Oscars are Sunday! Prepare by reading about the important films here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u200bI shouldn\u2019t be surprised that the absolute shitshow of our society has extended its reach to the Oscars, my favorite<\/em> thing, but here we are. The 91st Academy Awards will have the inauspicious repute of being the ceremony that went from bad to worse for no good reason. If anyone knows Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, the Oscars producers, and John Bailey, the Academy president, I hope you show them this to read and then give them a lollipop so those babies feel better after I\u2019m done. Guys, the FORK is wrong with you? You\u2019re in the entertainment business but can\u2019t think of a comedian other than Kevin Hart? I\u2019m not even going to list potential comedians who would have been better \u2013 and who are not homophobic assholes (or the shortest man in America) \u2013 because it\u2019s endless<\/em>. Yet instead of finding a decent, funny human to host, you decided that the longest awards ceremony, the one that famously becomes untenable halfway through, didn\u2019t need a host this year. Were you trying to make a pissy little statement about how much you love Kevin Hart and hate tolerance, because that\u2019s the only thing that anyone gets from your behavior. Why are idiots in charge of literally EVERYTHING? <\/p>\n\n\n\n My favorite part is that after everyone already hated your decision, you doubled down on how wrong you are for this job and decided that not all the Best Song nominees would perform, only the ones you really liked. That\u2019s some real unfair bullshit, to the viewers and to the nominees. And then just for shits and giggles you decided to cut the cinematography, editing, and makeup awards from the telecast, not like those things are important for movies or anything. Best of all, Queen & Adam Lambert (who I love, don\u2019t get me wrong) are now set to perform a Queen medley on the telecast \u2013 even though none of those songs are nominated, even though there supposedly wasn\u2019t enough time for actual nominated songs or crucial awards to get on air, even though Bohemian Rhapsody is not a good movie yet y\u2019all keep acting like it is. What is going on at the Academy HQ? Hopefully, the winners won\u2019t be as big of a mess as the show is, but that\u2019s a really high hope considering the nominees are a g-d mess to begin with. We\u2019ll get into that as we discuss the main categories \u2013 the only important ones, as Donna and Glenn taught me \u2013 below, but suffice it to say, it\u2019s a shitshow. Remember to read about the big movies of the year before the show starts<\/a> (on Sunday, 8pm EST, ABC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u200bBelow, I\u2019m going to list the nominees not in alphabetical order but in order of how I would be voting, with my pick at the top, because that’s who I am and that’s who I care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BEST PICTURE<\/strong> Will win: Roma
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The whole shebang now reeks of desperation and incompetence. I am absolutely beyond hysterical at the idea of Jose Andres \u2013 yes, the chef \u2013 presenting one of the Best Picture nominees. I assume it is going to be Roma and that this came about because Donna and Glenn were like \u201coh it\u2019s about Mexico, didn\u2019t we just meet a Mexican recently? Oh no, we had Mexican food. Let\u2019s have a Mexican food maker present it! They probably know each other!\u201d Jose is Spanish, not that they care, and a food maker is called a chef<\/em>, Donna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BlacKkKlansman
A Star is Born
Green Book
Roma
The Favourite
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Vice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should win: BlindspottingI can\u2019t remember another season where the actual best film of the year wasn\u2019t even nominated, so that\u2019s why my ordering might seem a little weird. No, I don\u2019t think BlacKkKlansman is the best picture, but it\u2019s the most deserving out of these. Spike Lee\u2019s latest joint tells a riveting true story with a little humor, a lot of tension, and with a pointed reminder of how forked America is right now. It\u2019s a good-to-great movie but its purpose and importance to our society right now is what pushes it over the top and gets my vote. I adored A Star is Born and wish it was doing better this season (it came out too early and lost momentum). However, it takes my second spot and not the top because it\u2019s not the year for an all-white romance to win. We need a political film to win. I enjoyed Green Book the most, and honestly can\u2019t wait to watch it again just for Viggo\u2019s stellar tah-yen slang, but I get that it\u2019s a problematic white-focused race movie, which is not what we need right now. The winner will most likely be Roma, which I found pleasing to watch (and it will definitely win for cinematography, and should) and interesting yet lacking in any real story, especially for what\u2019s now the frontrunner. Such a weird year, guys. What should be up there is the nearly flawless Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and it\u2019s ludicrous that it\u2019s not nominated. But it\u2019s not as ludicrous as the snub for what was actually\u00a0the best film of the year and the one that would be actually worthy of winning this award: Blindspotting.<\/a>
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