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Thursday
Feb252016

Thoughts I Had... First Pics of Oscar Set

Thoughts I had looking at the first pics of the Oscar set for Sunday night in the order they came to me after the jump...

Leonardo DiCaprio on Fire! 

Leonardo DiCaprio killed by meteor shower as he accepts his statue.

Leonardo in METEOR! (1979). Oh he was only five years old. Missed opportunity.

He's never made a movie with an exclamation point in the title. Though you know The Revenant! wants one. No, three. The Revenant !!!

Tha set has a lot of fiery hues. But the lighting design will surely give our retinas a rest from the reds and yellows on occasion. It'll go blue at some point. Original Song performances? In Memoriam?

The stacks of Oscars look like fairy tale palaces by Disney - they're always tall and narrow. Sometimes with penis spires.

(How do King Triton have seven daughters without a penis? He's got a fish tail.)

I just got back from the Animated Shorts program (Eric's post reminded me I hadn't done my duty) so the meteor shower up top is reminding me of the dead lower class souls Emily has fun counting in World of Tomorrow (available to watch on Netflix and so worth your 17 minutes). The fireworks pinwheels up close are reminding me of Prologue's dandelions with the warriors hiding behind them and ohmygod those deaths were vomitously disgusting in that movie. A sword up the butt? Ways Not To Die.

Gold dresses are going to blend into that set like glamour camouflage. Be careful, Brie. 

The set changes of course and was designed by Derek Maclane... so here's a couple more photos via EW.

'Beam me up, Scotty!'

Imagine if you were rich and crazy enough to recreate these sets in your living room for your Oscar party instead of just making movie themed party foods? Like a Modern Auntie Mame.

Okay now that's just gaudy/ugly... Oscars exploding from people's heads. Also that would kill you if you weren't Meryl Streep.

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Reader Comments (17)

I just snort laughed and choke on my dinner over the King Triton LITTLE MERMAID dick jokes.

But wait! Is that a teeny tiny fake Cheryl Boone Isaacs in the final mockup??

February 25, 2016 | Registered CommenterChris Feil

" 'Cause you are GOLD!" - Spandau Ballet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterforever1267

Nat: No, The Revenant would, if the marketing crew suggested something like that was necessary, want one of those depressed looking emojis next to it.

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

It all looks very Chinese New Years to me, with the fireworks exploding.
Maybe it will look better on the night.

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterLadyEdith

It's just a retread of the Ellen year, isn't it?

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/709071/25986696/1424877241827/Oscar+Stage+86th+2014.jpg?token=rrH1HQXQRvRAWMMuOJeCFvWdkj0%3D

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterJonathan

I don't like it. I'll just skip the Oscars. I'll just be busy finishing up my 29 Days of Bowie series.

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterSteven

How do King Triton have seven daughters without a penis? He's got a fish tail.

Well, the Queen would go into a corner of a castle and fart out a bunch of eggs and then King Triton would swim over and fertilize them and then probably like 7 of the 1000s of eggs survived.

Maybe Ariel is his favorite because she was the Nemo of the second batch?

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterRahul

Isn't this just a retread of the Ellen year? With the stacks of floating gummy Oscars? Looks pretty much the same.

February 25, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterJonathan

Think I may be skipping this year as well......

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterjamie

#OscarsSoGold

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterRyan T.

I just imagine it like:

The Revenant: Was HARD to make!

Tagline: You have no idea

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered Commentermorganb

I never pay much attention to the Oscar sets but these are definitely eye catching, so I kind of love the look? While I don't have a horse in the race for most of the "main" categories, I haven't missed an Oscar Ceremony since 1999/2000 and I certainly won't miss this one... at least by choice, anyway.

Added Note: Actually, I wasn't paying much attention to the ceremony for the 2004 films. The only one of the 2004 Best Picture nominees I saw was Ray and Return Of The King was on Starz at the same time, so I was flipping back and forth between the two.

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterDaniel Armour

Maybe STALLONE OSCAR WINNER, will wear enough gold around his neck and no one will notice or care. Or maybe not even watch.

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPatryk

This is pretty much the same design in each of the past FIVE YEARS. What's up with those circular things? Please, i'm tired of them.

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterLyndee

So, given this color scheme, the design team has got to be pro-Mad Max: Fury Road, right?

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterdenny

I pity the fool...

February 26, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterSawyer

I like it. Appropriately glamorous and glitzy. Oscars are all about Gold.

February 27, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterTony T
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