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Nobody missed a host.
(Remember: For every one winner there are four non-winners.)
Here, there was no one to project our grumpy feelings onto.
And there was a kind of symmetry in his sitting right there so prominently as it happened.
By the way, I likedDriving Miss Daisy.
I also likedGreen Book, especially the tag-team work of Mortensen and Ali.
And that was enough.
The movie has many, many flaws, some unique, some par for the biopic course.
If youre immune to Malek, theres no hope for you.
That Glenn Close lost the Oscar everyone predicted for her is very odd.
And she gave one of the most charming award speeches Ive ever heard.
Emily Yoshida and I considered the15 short subject nomineesthis year and Emily rightly picked the doc winner.
I was 0 for 3.
ThatBaocould win over the marvelousWeekendsis …
I have no words except I wonder how many people actually watchedWeekends.
And then the live action short,Skin… You have to wonder.
You also have to train yourself to remember that awards organizations are wrong more often than right.
Just like voters in all the other arenas.
Gaga and Cooperwere magic.
Watching them together it was easy to see whyA Star is Bornworked despite a muddled second half.
They have chemistry, that most elusive thing.
But then, Cooper often has chemistry with his co-stars, male and female.
Watch him inThe Mulewith Eastwood or anything with Jennifer Lawrence.
He leans into his acting partners the way that most other leading men dont.
We watch him watching them.
He has a generous artistic soul.
Dick Miller was left off the remembrance roll which means someone should be fed to a large plant.
Also worth noting:Paul Schraderstill does not have an Oscar.
Would it be weird instead of a popular film category to have a category for retroactive Oscar?
Go back 40 or 50 years with a new slate of old nominees?
The winner is … Paul Schrader forTaxi Driver!
