Podcast: Oscar Afterglow... or is that Sleep Deprivation?

Katey phones in from Los Angeles to talk Oscar night with Nathaniel and Joe in New York and Nick in Chicago. What a crazy night that was, huh? Some of us didn't sleep much. We talk about that shocking messy finale, the history-making decision to name Moonlight Best Picture, debate which celebrity was having the most fun on the big night, judge the musical performances, name the craft wins we were confused by, and answer the age old question: junior mints or twizzlers?

You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you? 

P.S. The podcast will return at the end of the month for a new season. If we get a few more patron saints this week I'll buy a professional mic. 

89th Oscars, Reactions. Season Finale

Moonlight's Speech that never was

Moonlight’s best picture win is historic. It’s the first gay themed film to win the big award. Also the first one to win with an all black cast (more trivia here). However its big moment of course was stolen by the big debacle that was the best picture presentation.

Let’s shine a light back on Moonlight and its director Barry Jenkins. Here is the speech he would’ve given, had the presentation went as planned...

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Beauty Break: The Men of Moonlight

Moonlight's surprise win was quite a way to wrap Black History Month!  Even more surprising (we all knew people loved Moonlight... we just didn't know the industry loved it this much) was that the day after the Oscars, the cast of Moonlight were revealed as Calvin Klein underwear models. Obviously this was planned in advance but what fortune for Calvin Klein that they have the Oscar winning team in their skivvies this week instead of merely the Oscar runner up team. 

Here's Oscar winner Mahershala Ali...

What follows after the jump, though, is more than just underwear advertisements. But consider this fair warning -- Trevante Rhodes underwear pics are brain-meltingly hot. We also have to talk red carpet and the unsung ANTM posing of Ashton Sanders. More after the jump...

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Emma Stone "I fucking love Moonlight"

Murtada here. If there is one thing we can take away from last night best picture announcement, hopefully it’s the love and respect the teams behind Moonlight and La La Land have for each other. La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz took charge of the situation on stage and announced Moonlight as the rightful winner while everyone else on stage was utterly confused. He’s already being hailed as “the truth teller we need right now”.

Both Barry Jenkins and producer Adele Romanski started their acceptance speeches by mentioning the La La Land team. Jenkins went further acknowledging the many months the teams behind both films spent together on the Oscar campaign trail:

I have to say — and it is true, it’s not fake — we’ve been on the road with these guys for so long, and that was so gracious, so generous of them. My love to “La La Land,” my love to everybody.

When Damien Chazelle understandably chose not to speak to the press post his best director win, it fell on the shoulders of this year’s best actress to address the situation backstage. Emma Stone of course handled it with aplomb and her usual charm. She landed her opening joke “Phew… you guys see that?”, delivered with a knowing wink. She sorta tried to start a conspiracy theory “ I was holding my best actress in a leading role card that entire time… I don’t mean to start stuff”. You totally did, Emma. At least for a few hours until Price Waterhouse Cooper took responsibility for the error and said that they had duplicate envelopes for all 24 categories and that they handed the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty.

The clincher though, as what she said about Moonlight.

And of course it was Emma who verbalized what everyone was thinking last night "Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time?". Yes Emma, it was. We are still in shock. Comment away with your Monday feelings about the snafu and Emma's win, too.

Best Oscar Night Tweets

A film about gay black love won best picture. Im so in love with the 'out of touch liberals' in my industry. 💖 https://t.co/qZYHgXQPvz

— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) February 27, 2017

 More tweets after the jump including Moonlight exuberance and history, Isabelle Huppert, Moonlight making history, Warren Beatty, Murderous Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman photo op, and Janelle Monáe's magical powers...

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