The 91st Oscars Recap

Hello, sorry for the delay on this. I’ve been a little busy. As most of you probably know, the Academy held the 91st Academy Awards a little over a month ago now. Now, let’s start with my opinions on the ceremony. Despite all that was surrounding the ceremony, the ceremony was just okay. It wasn’t bad by any means of the word, there was some problems like the chemistry between presenters was in some cases horrible. A ton of the jokes resulted in becoming hit or miss as a result. The ceremony would have been better if the presenters came alone rather than in pairs or threes. Now granted, if there was a host, the show might have been able to keep the ceremony more engaging with the overall chemistry, but it still probably would have been bad even with a host, maybe just not as noticeable. The one thing the ceremony did accomplish was focusing the ceremony more on the movies nominated, which in many respects I like. Oh and the whole idea of having non-hollywood celebrities introducing the best picture nominees one by one, really did not work at all. One of the worse ones was done by Serena Williams (if my audience does not know who she is, she’s a world famous tennis player). I’m sure she’s a great tennis player but public speaking is just not one of her talents. The best one was done by Trevor Noah when he introduced Black Panther. All in all those moments ended up becoming some of the most awkward moments of the night. Overall, the ceremony was in the middle of the road. It had a lot of good moments, but had plenty of awkward moments. Most of the problems could be solved next year with or without a host. And if the producer’s want to know how to make the show better, call me. Now, let’s get to the winners. 

Best Animated Feature: Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse. 
Having seen most of the nominees, I am thrilled that it won. 

Best actor: Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody
Having seen his performance, he gave a fantastic performance as Freddy Mercury. 

Best Documentary Short: Period. End of Sentence
I have seen all of the nominees and unfortunately Period. End of Sentence was one of the weakest out of the entire bunch. There were at least three a lot more worthy, but the reason why it won is because it had a massive campaign. If I was the sole voter of the Oscars, I would have given the award to End Game or maybe some of the other ones. 

Best Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody has really great editing. It is definitely a deserving winner. Part of the reason why it won is because the movie was basically saved in the editing bay due to the fact that they fired the director Bryan Singer during the last weeks of shooting. 
  
Best Cinematography: Roma
Roma has some of the best cinematography this year. I am not complaining in the least. 

Best Adaptive Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
It definitely has great writing and Spike Lee gave one of the best acceptance speeches of the night. 
  
Best Original Screenplay: Green Book
I will get to my opinion on Green Book a little bit later.

Best Supporting Actress: Regina King- If Beale Street Could Talk
I have not seen If Beale Street Could Talk, so I don’t have much of an opinion on her win. 

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali- Green Book
He gave a great performance in Green Book. 

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón- Roma 
Alfonso Cuarón is really a masterful director. Roma is definitely a slow moving movie, but a great movie, as well. 

Best Actress: Olivia Colman- The Favourite
This is probably the biggest upset of the night. If you remember my predictions blog I said that Glenn Close was a lock, but I have not seen either of their performances and so I can’t tell you which one was actually more deserving. However, Glenn Close has had 7 nominations and still no win. So you could argue that it should have been Glenn Close because she was overdue for one. 

Best Picture: Green Book
Now I have seen Green Book and I enjoyed the movie just fine. Would I have given it the Best Picture Oscar? Probably not. Of the nominees I have seen, I probably would have given it to either Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, or Bohemian Rhapsody, but Green Book is a really good movie. The controversy surrounding it, calling it a “white savior” movie, while not unfounded, I will say the controversy was definitely blown out of proportions. But I do highly recommend Green Book, I just probably wouldn’t give it the actual award. Oh and Green Book is now the fifth movie to win Best Picture without the director nomination. 

Aftermath
About a week or so after the Oscars, legendary director and member of the board of the Academy, Steven Spielberg, announced plans to propose a rule that will essentially ban netflix and other streaming services from participating at the Oscars. Spielberg says Netflix makes TV movies so therefore they should be participating at the Emmys, not the Oscars, and  I do have to disagree with him and  I will ask Spielberg this one question: Define a movie. But it is looking like Spielberg will not get any action due to just this week the DOJ (The Department of Justice) wrote a letter to the Academy telling them if they go through with it, they will be breaking Anti-trust laws, because it will be a competitor talking with another competitor who possibly caused another competitor to go under. Therefore, that is why Spielberg will probably not get his way. To finish this blog, I will just ask you a very interesting question: How do you define a movie? Goodnight and Bee Happy!™ 
Mr.Bee 

For the complete list of  all the oscar winners please visit 
https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2019 
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