I know you don’t care, but I’m sharing because you should.
Those of you who predicted the Oscar wins would be peppered with wins by Asians and Blacks…take a bow, it wasn’t a sweep (old ways die hard) but still impressive by Hollywood’s hypocritical standards.
Speaking of hypocritical: check out the walls build around Union Station to keep the “stars” safe
Honestly, pop culture is so predictable even a caveman could do it.
Wait – isn’t this…racist?
Best Supporting Actor went to Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah),
and Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) won Best Supporting Actress.
Shown here with her Oscar and has-been white actor Brad Pitt
Chloé Zhao, the China-born director of Nomadland who became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. Boy, I can’t keep up, one day Asians don’t count as POC, the next day they do. Which is it? Maybe Harvard will weigh in.
Disappointingly, the top Actress and Actor awards went respectively to Frances McDormand (Nomadland), old white actress, and Anthony Hopkins (The Father), old,white actor – instead of Viola Davis
Viola (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
and Chadwick Boseman (also Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – who everyone assumed was a shoe-in, having the misfortune of having passed away from cancer last summer. If only he’d had the better fortune of dying of Covid instead we could have filed another chapter in the history book of that could be dragged out every Black History Month.
Chadwick (RIP)
Whereas everyone expected Chadwick to take the top honor they switched up the award order which usually ends with the announcement of Best Picture and instead awarded that prize before Best Actress and Actor, to provide an emotional end note to the ceremony. Since Anthony Hopkins won (unexpectedly - not that he was undeserving!) and was not present to accept, the presenter, Joaquin Phoenix, was left awkwardly holding the bag, or Oscar, as it were. Wags have noted it was the worst ending since The Sopranos fade-to-black finale.
Oh, I don’t know…
seems a perfectly fitting end to this charade to me. Followed by a word from all your woke sponsors; Nike, Coke, et al.
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