Caption This: Glenn's Gaze

Nathaniel has already done the job of lamenting Glenn Close's sad loss again at Oscar's big night, so let's take some joy in one thing she did win that night: the internet. The spirit of goodwill and love for the screen legend has been everywhere online this season, from sharing selfies with Chalamet to her dog Sir Pippin of Beanfield's Instagram. But last night she gave us a genius bit of viral performance when she caught the eye of co-nominee Melissa McCarthy on the red carpet. The results were glamorous and... sexual (?) in nature.

  

Reader, tell us: what is Glenn Close thinking?

Make Up For Ever

by Seán McGovern

About ten months from now, there will be a press release from the Academy informing us that some of the 24 categories will be handed out during the commerical breaks. Initially there will be uproar all over again. How dare they?! Didn't we go through all this last year? What an outrage! But then I'll turn to you and say 'yeah but remember those make-up people who won for Vice?' at which point we shall all accept this harsh but necessary decision...

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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 

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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'Can You Ever Forgive' everyone ignoring Marielle Heller?

by Nathaniel R

Marielle Heller is, we suspect, a real deal cinematic treasure. Her debut film, the sexually charged, inventively imagined Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) showed a ton of promise. Her second feature Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), while more modest at first glance, was yet more complex and successful.

We think she ought to have been one of the Best Director nominees with Oscar this year, which is why she's in our Film Bitch Awards Best Director lineup...

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