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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums...I was just writing an OP saying the Academy had chickened out at the end...
Then, my sister called me back in the room and said they'd made a mistake on the Best Picture award and "Moonlight" had actually won.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)...that SO would have sucked...
#OscarsSlightlyLessWhite
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I'm thinking he didn't have a speech written.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)For African-Americans watching, I'd guess that rubbed in the double standard on how Casey and Nate Parker(who was cheated out of at least two possible Oscar nominations) were treated after facing similar accusations.
onecaliberal
(32,888 posts)Actor who they decided would win from the start.
But best picture was about black gay poor men so that is a big effing deal.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)there was no "fix"
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)present the Best Actor Oscar.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Choosing Brie to hand Casey that award(she'd had to hand him an award at another ceremony recently)disrespected the women whose stories she was trying to tell.
Would you at least agree that if ALL the biggest awards had gone to LA LA LAND and MANCHESTER, that that would have been a kind of chickening-out on the whole spirit of the evening and what everyone had been saying for the first two-thirds of the ceremony?
Skittles
(153,185 posts)what does the Best Actor award have to do with sexual assault?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)seems like it would be her choice
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That may depend on how commercially successful she's been so far, and to what degree she's in demand as an actor.
A lot of people in Hollywood will feel they have less power to refuse to do things they object to at an early stage of their career.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)Casey Affleck's performance was OUTSTANDING and yes, I saw FENCES. Casey was the clear winner.
oasis
(49,401 posts)Skittles
(153,185 posts)I urge anyone naysaying his win to go see it.......it is unforgettable
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I think my don't watch the Oscars iron Man streak is over 25 years or so. When did Billy Crystal do the car alarm thing?
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)...than the movies that are nominated.