Open Thread - Oscar Night and Winners List

And say whatever you gotta say. We'll have a ton of coverage over the next three days but during the actual show we just watch like the Stockholm Syndrome devotees that we are (though we'll post a winners list during commercial breaks.)

THE WINNERS

Best Supporting Actress Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Awww... Chris Evans, such a gentleman

Who was best dressed?

Her James Baldwin Tribute 

Best Documentary Feature Free Solo

Best Makeup & Hairstyling Vice

The night's worst acceptance speech

Best Costume Design Ruth E Carter, Black Panther

In praise of Melissa McCarthy's bunny puppet

Best Production Design Black Panther

Best Cinematography  Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Sound Editing Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Sound Mixing Bohemian Rhapsody

"We are the Champions" LGBT Stories at the Oscars

Best Visual FX First Man

Best Film Editing John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Richard E Grant met his idol Barbra Streisand

Best Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Animated Short Bao

Best Documentary Short Period. End of Sentence. 

Best Live Action Short Skin

Best Screenplay Green Book

Best Foreign Film Roma

Best Adapted Screenplay BlacKkKlansman 

The most joyful moment in the ceremony

How many times did you "Jennifer Hudson" on Oscar night?

Best Original Score Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther

Best Original Song "Shallow," A Star is Born

The horniest moment in the ceremony

The musical performances ranked

Best Lead Actor Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Ranking the Oscar Clips - These guys didn't fare well.

Best Lead Actress Olivia Colman The Favourite

On Glenn Close's Oscar curse

Best Reaction Shot... Emma Stone

Who was best dressed?

Best Director Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Picture Green Book 

Why Green Book's win made me cringe - Not why you think!

Best Picture Nominee Oscar Tallies: Bohemian Rhapsody: 4 wins; Black Panther, Roma, Green Book: 3 wins each; A Star is Born, Vice, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman: 1 win each. The last time each Best Picture nominee won an award was 2014 but it's not so common since something usually goes home empty-handed.

MORE COVERAGE

How'd you do on your predictions? We went 17/24
Reader Poll Results Who you were rooting for.
New Oscar Trivia since we've wrapped up another year 
Glenn Close's Oscar Curse Nathaniel on Glenn's 7th historic loss
With a Friend Like Emma... Hang this in the Louvre 
Ranking the Oscar Clips - Ben ranks the 20 from Cringe-worthy to Greatness 
Appropriate Acceptance Speeches - Should the speech match the accomplishment?
Caption This - Glenn's Melissa McCarthy Gaze 
First Gentleman of the Oscars - Dan Loves Chris Evans
Joe vs Nicholas - Vote on your Favourite fella 
Team Reactions Part 1 - Horniest and Most Joyful Moments 
Team Reactions Part 2 - Good times, Noticeable Absentees
Best Dressed Supporting Actress - VOTE! 
Best Dressed Best Actress - VOTE !
Best Dressed Men - Joe, Chadwick, Nicholas, Henry and More...
Best Dressed Non-Nominees - 20 More Lewks from Oscar Night
"Jennifer Hudsoning" - Ginny did it lots on Oscar night
Melissa McCarthy & Brian Tyree Henry - Tim on the funniest awards presentation 
The 5 Musical Performances - Chris Feil, our Soundtracking Man, ranks them
James Baldwin Tribute - Murtada wonders if we'll get more adaptations of his work?
Complicated Feelings about Green Book's Win - Lynn Lee explains 
We are the Champions - Deborah on LGBT stories at the Oscars 

It's Finally Here -- Happy Oscar Day!

Just chanced upon this image of Best Actress competitors Judy Holliday and Gloria Swanson freaking out with joy at Jose Ferrer's Oscar win for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Gloria, naughty naughty, he just beat your amazing costar William Holden in Sunset Boulevard!

After the jump, a very random Beauty Break of glorious moments from past Oscar nights to whet your appetite for tonight...

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Great Acceptance Speeches: Stanley Donen, Honorary

A big thank you to Dancin Dan, Chris Feil, Eurocheese, and Ben Miller who shared favourite acceptance speeches with us as we got hyped up for Oscar. There are so many more speeches we could have highlighted if we have more time or a bigger team, but well wrap up th speech appreciation with something that seems totally appropriate for a number of reasons: Stanley Donen's Honorary Oscar acceptance speech for, and we'll quote the Oscars here:

in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation.

The speech is a thing of complete and utter beauty and wit and gratitude and every time we see it we're reminded of how much Oscar night lost when it opted to no longer included the Honoraries on the broadcast. (Honestly we wouldn't mind half as much if they also televised those on a different night, but alas, they don't.)

As you may have heard cinema lost Donen this week at age 94. He was one of Hollywood's purest pleasure-makers, directing or co-directing musical classics like Singin' in the Rain, On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Funny Face. But that's not all! He also made beloved non-musicals with Audrey Hepburn like Charade and Two for the Road among other films. Donen is survived by his also brilliant partner of the past 20 years, the actress/director Elaine May (who just completed a much-raved Broadway run in the play Waverly Gallery so you might see her at the Tonys this year) so our condolecences go out to her this week. 

Winners of the 34th annual Independent Spirit Awards

by Nathaniel R

Richard E Grant getting his supporting actor trophy from Glenn Close at the Spirit AwardsBy the time the Spirit Awards roll around each year we've completely forgotten about their nominations. They're the group with the the longest annual stretch between nominations and trophy handouts each year! As a reminder We the Animals led in number of nominations this year despite not showing up in the top category. Unfortunately it was entirely shut out of actual wins. The nomination leaders within the Best Feature category were Eighth Grade, First Reformed, and You Were Never Really Here, which all at least won something.

After the jump the winners list and cute photos and such...

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Final Oscar Predictions

by Nathaniel R

Sharing a predictions article I wrote for Towleroad yesterday just after having posted our final predictions in that penultimate podcast discussion of the season. It's highly likely that I've contradicted myself a few times. And I'm already regretting some of those "final" predictions. A confusing year it's been. CHAOS REIGNS! So here are the final predictions, posted in order of how the prizes were handed out last year. If I'm already second guessing myself there are notes in red font. Category titles will take you to the corresponding chart where you have one last day to vote on your favourites. Ready?  Here we go...

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