ABC via Getty ImagesĮarly on, Daniel Kaluuya (“ Judas and the Black Messiah”) hilariously thanked his parents for having sex to conceive him. The best moment of the night was Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”) flirting with Brad Pitt and asking, “Where were you when we were filming?” Glenn Close dancing to “Da Butt” during the 2021 Oscars. There were memorable moments in the speeches. None of the broadcast’s many indulgences were the fault of the winners. Frances McDormand has won three Best Actress awards at the Oscars. This year, all the Best Song nominees were relegated to the red carpet pre-show, which even fewer people watch, so there was no variety to spice things up. They could make a buck selling the telecast as a smartphone sleep-improvement app.Īt least at your average kindergarten graduation, the cute little kids sing a tune. The camera work was purposefully shaky, the acceptance speeches were shot pretentiously off-center and the cinematic frame-rate robbed this news event of electricity. Meanwhile, our eyes couldn’t take this self-righteous snooze-fest. Oscars 2021 winners: Here’s who took home trophies The night ended without a winner’s speech from Anthony Hopkins (“ The Father“). The producers clearly assumed the late Chadwick Boseman would win Best Actor, the final award presented, and it would be moving and historic. The Academy believes in the movies so much, they made Best Picture the third-to-last category of the night (“ Nomadland” won). Chloé Zhao won both Best Picture and Best Director for “Nomadland.” A.M.P.A.S. We listened to dumb tidbits available online. When the cinematography, editing and acting nominees were called out, viewers didn’t get to see their extraordinary output.
Rather, we were told saccharine trivia about the nominees: So-and-so used to work as a telemarketer what’s-his-name researched his role really super hard. While the retro set suggested a classic Dean Martin roast, we got a kindergarten graduation ceremony instead.Īt this event, which ostensibly is meant to celebrate the movies, we rarely saw clips of any of the films. Cool, new, fun! Regina King began the Oscars by stylishly walking into Los Angeles’ Union Station. And she arrived to a neat Art Deco-looking banquet hall where the trophies would be handed out. Presenter Regina King confidently strutted through Los Angeles’ Union Station, which was reconfigured to host the event, like it was a catwalk during Fashion Week. The 2021 Oscars exceeded three hours and bored its audience to tears. The night was nearly non-stop drudgery, zero humor and a format that tried even the most resolute of attention spans. “Steven Soderbergh’s The Oscars” gets 1 star. All right, as a movie critic, I’ll play ball. Producer Steven Soderbergh, the man who directed “Traffic” and “Erin Brockovich,” among many other fine films, helmed the broadcast and was determined to make it more intimate and cinematic than usual. If you opened the window and listened closely Sunday night, you could hear it: the sound of millions of remote controls changing the channel during the 2021 Oscars.Īnd after last night’s debacle - the worst Academy Awards of my lifetime - they may never return. How Cara Delevingne became Hollywood’s biggest heartbreaker The biggest red-carpet jewelry from the 2021 Oscars and Golden Globes
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