All I'll say is this... please let the two La La Land songs cancel each other out so that Justin Timerlake, Sting or Lin-Manual Miranda wins for Best Song. That would make me almost as happy as Jonathan Quick returning to the LA Kings goal crease yesterday :)
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The Preshow
- Lisa is here and we're drinking champagne and eating cheese, crackers and salami.
- So far our faves on the red carpet are our buddy Sting, and Lin-Manuel's eyebrow :)
- Love Taraji P. Henson, Kirsten Dunst and Octavia Spencer's dresses.
- Oh no Jessica Biel... what is that thing around your neck?
- Robin Roberts is also having a bad gold dress day. And why did you lighten your hair?
- Oh love the cute little kid from Lion. And love his sneakers! If you didn't see that movie, go see it!
- Can't wait for the Jimmy Kimmel / Matt Damon feud to continue tonight. Hahaha.
- Trudie Styler is too thin to wear a flowy dress like that. But have I mentioned how good Sting looks? Always... like a fine wine...
- It's the thing on Mrs. Timberlake's neck again. But look how cute and fun her hubby is :)
- Halle Berry's hair. Wow.
- Love Lin-Manuel and his mom. So cute.
- Nicole Kidman's dress is too pale for her pale skin. But otherwise very elegant.
- I do not love Viola Davis' dress.. not a great neckline. She's likely going to win an Oscar in that dress, preserving it for posterity.
- Oh hi Ryan Gosling.. :) Robin Roberts tells Ryan, "I would be happy to be your arm candy." Lisa says, "You and the rest of America Robin.."
- Is Casey Affleck ever going to finish this mountain man movie so he can shave and get a hair cut?
- What the heck is Dakota Johnson wearing?!?! That looks like a 1950s nightgown. Ugh.
- Pro Tip Michael Strahan: Be careful with your hand motions.
- Love Naomi Harris' slick white look and mis-matched shoes.
- Michelle Willams looks adorbs. And love she continues to bring her BFF Busy Phillips.
- Emma Stone looks ready to win an Oscar that looks like her... minus the fringe.
The Show
- Bring on JT!! Party time.. best opening ever! Can't Stop The Feeling/Lovely Day remix! LOVE!! SO GOOD! SO POSITIVE!
- Here we go.. Jimmy and Matt, part 1. Jimmy reaching out and healing the rift.. by pointing out that "The Great Wall" lost $80 million.
- And Meryl being over-rated gets the biggest applause of the night. (And I really like her dress for once.)
- And Best Supporting Actor goes to... Mahershala Ali for "Moonlight." I agree with this win. He was great in that film.
- "This is the fun part of the show.... before you realize you taped your boobs to your dress for nothing." - Jimmy Kimmel
- Best Makeup and Hair: "Suicide Squad.." that's what I picked, even though I still haven't seen it. I picked it because Jared Leto scares me in the trailer.
- Kate McKinnon is channeling alt facts Kellyanne Conway and no one seems to realize it...
- Best Costume Design: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Yay!! Colleen Atwood looks shocked. Um, FYI, when you work on a Harry Potter film, you might win stuff ;)
- Okay. LOVE the Cadillac commercial... good will defeat evil people. Keep the faith..
- "Algebra's Angels" (love that!) aka the women of my fave movie of the year, "Hidden Figures" -- Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae ... the real life Katherine Johnson! Standing O, and some tears.
- OJ continues to win things... "OJ: Made in America" = Best Documentary Feature. And classy to thank Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown and their families.
- Dwayne Johnson is coming out ... could it be to introduce our favorite could-be EGOT winner??
- Lin-Manuel Miranda time... doing an original prologue to "How Far I'll Go." SO GOOD! Lisa is freaking out on my sofa right now. She's just a sort of huge LMM/Hamilton fanatic. ;)
- Moana girl knocked it out of the park... didn't miss a beat, even when one of the dancer's "waves" whacked her in the head. #nopressure
- And she's been gif'd. Poor thing
- I really thought Jimmy's mom or Cousin Sal would bring over canoli's or something. But parachuting movie candy was a much more fun visual.
- Best Sound Editing: Arrival. Interesting.. So far Suicide Squad, Fantastic Beasts and Arrival have more Oscars than La La Land.
- Oooh, and now Mel Gibson's movie has more Oscars than La La Land (so far). Hacksaw Ridge = Best Sound Mixing
- Oh, now it's time for Viola Davis to get her Best Supporting Actress Oscar....
- What's with the weird camera angle on Mark Rylance and his little Charlie Chaplin hat?
- Called it.
- Best Foreign Language Film goes to .. the guy who can't get into America thanks to Trump's travel ban. ("The Salesman")
- Sting performing the beautiful "The Empty Chair." Note: I saw him do this same song, sitting on a chair about 12 feet away from me two weeks ago at the Palladium. It was just as beautiful then.... probably more so because he was RIGHT THERE. But this time, he ended with this on the screen behind him. "If we don't have the moral courage to challenge authority... we don't have journalism." LOVE (says the Journalism major.)
- Best Animated Short Film = "Piper" Lisa is happy.
- "As a human being, I'm against any sort of wall that wants to separate us" - Gael Garcia Bernal. If you haven't seen Mozart in the Jungle (on Amazon Prime), go watch it. Great show. And he's a joy.
- Best Animated Film.... please Moana. But .... Zootopia (not a shocker). It's more fit for today's political climate... but not as touching as Moana.
- There's Dakota Johnson's bad dress again. Let's just look at Jamie Dornan.
- "La La Land" finally wins something! Best Production Design. And the winners get played off....
- And now the tourists from the tour bus gag walk in.. and just start taking photos. Ryan Gosling and Nicole Kidman are being the official greeters.
- This bit was kinda lame to start, but the stars playing along is making it awesome!
- Best Visual Effects goes to The Jungle Book. Considering every character in the film except Mowgli was a visual effect, I agree with this win too.
- From Mashable "Seth Rogen wearing Back to the Future shoes and singing Hamilton is as jarring as actual time travel would be."
- And the award for Best Film Editing goes to .. Hacksaw Ridge, which now has more Oscars so far than La La Land does.
- Best Documentary Short Subject: The White Helmets.
- Best Live Action Short Film: Sing
- ... And Jimmy Kimmel is tweeting Donald Trump. Asking if he was up and letting him know #Merylsayshi
- This John Cho/Leslie Mann technology awards intro about the Film Tech Awards is hi-lar-ious. #gofilmscientists
- Best Cinematography goes to "La La Land".. okay so now it's in a tie for most awards won (2) with Hacksaw Ridge.
- Mean Tweets.. the Oscar edition. Jeff Bridges and DeNiro's were the best!
- Oh god. And there's the song I can never get out of my head. UGH.
- And Matt Damon just tripped Jimmy Kimmel.. on accident. Yeah. HA.
- Time for Music Awards... don't crush my dreams Academy. Don't do it!
- Best Original Score can go to La La Land.. that'd be fine
- And Best Original Score goes to La La Land.. okay. Fine. This is allowed.
- Best Original Song goes to.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! "City of Stars" wins. DO NOT LIKE.
- "Hilary, and now this" - Erika Shen
- In Memorium... I can't take this this year. And Jennifer Aniston almost losing it over Bill Paxton (#rip) at the beginning. Oy. At least last year I was distracted from the sadness by Dave Grohl.
- And now, Ben Affleck "and guest".. aka Matt Damon, who keeps getting played off the stage, to present the writing awards.
- Best Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea. I agree with this.
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight. I also agree with this.
- Best Directing: Damien Chazelle... the man responsible for that friggin' song being on the big screen. The youngest Best Director ever.
- I have to say.... the clip packages before some of the awards this year are pretty spectacular.
- Brie Larson is seriously glammed up this year.
- Best Actor will be Casey or Denzel... depending on how you feel about alleged sexual assault allegations.
- And the Best Actor Oscar goes to Casey Affleck. He deserves it for the performance. It was heartbreaking. That whole movie was heartbreaking.
- Denzel looks like he's gonna cry. #sniff
- Why doesn't Ben Affleck look happier that his baby bro just won an Oscar? He's still winning in that race with two (but neither for acting... hmmm.)
- Oh hi Leo...
- Meryl does not look amused by her clip.
- Best Actress goes to Emma Stone!! WOW. Now we get to see that dress next to the Oscar.
- Okay.. now let's give La La Land Best Picture so we can all go home. (Oh wait.. I'm already here.)
- And the Best Picture is La La Land. SHOCKER.
- WAIT what? Moonlight has won Best Picture!!! WOW. They read the wrong name for Best Picture!?!? Wrong envelope? What the heck just happened?
And goodnight. Is Jimmy Kimmel doing an after the Oscars show this year? I feel like we need an official follow up to that. WOW.
Okay.. I just went back and rewound the announcement on Tivo. Warren Beatty did look in the envelope for another card. He knew it was wrong. He should have said something then instead of letting Faye Dunaway read the wrong movie. Some envelope-stuffing accountant is getting fired tomorrow. WOW.
Well.. upon further investigation, it looks like a show producer will be losing their job. The envelope Warren Beatty opened said "Actress in a Leading Role." Someone said Leo put the card back in and handed it to a producer when he and Emma Stone came off stage, and that the producer then accidentally handed it to Warren Beatty. BUT in an after-show interview, Emma Stone says she had her card the whole time. BUT she didn't have it on stage when the La La Land people were accepting. #envelopegate2017..
Maybe this means they didn't win Best Song too? Hey.. I can dream... :)
Okay.. I just went back and rewound the announcement on Tivo. Warren Beatty did look in the envelope for another card. He knew it was wrong. He should have said something then instead of letting Faye Dunaway read the wrong movie. Some envelope-stuffing accountant is getting fired tomorrow. WOW.
Well.. upon further investigation, it looks like a show producer will be losing their job. The envelope Warren Beatty opened said "Actress in a Leading Role." Someone said Leo put the card back in and handed it to a producer when he and Emma Stone came off stage, and that the producer then accidentally handed it to Warren Beatty. BUT in an after-show interview, Emma Stone says she had her card the whole time. BUT she didn't have it on stage when the La La Land people were accepting. #envelopegate2017..
Maybe this means they didn't win Best Song too? Hey.. I can dream... :)
