The 91st Oscar Lead-Up

Hello and welcome to my long, long, delayed award season coverage. Sorry I haven’t been doing my usual coverage of award season, but I’ve been a little busy. The Oscars are this Sunday, and what better time to start my award season coverage (December or January would have been the ideal time)? I’m going to begin with the ceremony itself. Now as mentioned in a previous blog, there is no host. Ever since they decided to go hostless, the ceremony has been plagued with some other minor issues and poor decisions. First of all, in an effort to save time, they decided to only perform 2 out of the 5 best song nominees. That decision immediately came under fire with the Academy’s music branch and some people online. They have since backtracked and they will be performing all the nominees. But in my opinion I can understand the Academy’s decision to only perform two, because performing all of them is a bit much. However, allowing only two is a bit unfair - you either need to do ALL or NONE. They did not ask the acting winners from last year to present the award this year - as is tradition. Allison Janney said she was heartbroken about the decision - thus enraging the internet.The Academy backtracked yet again and invited all four of last year’s acting winners. Perhaps most irritating of all, if you remember the old Best Popular Film category, in that announcement they also announced there will be categories that will be presented during commercial breaks. They were going to be Live Action Short, Makeup and Hair, and Editing and Cinematography. Just to let you know, editing and cinematography are artforms that are unique to cinema. You wouldn’t have a movie without them. If you did not have editing and cinematography, you would only have a play (for the record - I have nothing against theater). Most people agree with me as the membership of the Academy freaked out along with the guilds.  Aside from the potential of a lackluster ceremony based on the decisions and walk-backs of the Academy, the races this year are some of the most fascinating and nail-biting in a long time. And I will be predicting all 24 categories, so I can tell you what to put in your Oscar pool.

Best Animated Feature: 

I have seen all but one of the nominees. Based on my personal opinion,
Spiderman- Into the Spider-Verse should win the Oscar and it will probably win
the Oscar. Spiderman will probably win the Oscar because it won the Golden
Globe, Critics’ Choice Award, BAFTA, Producers’ Guild, and all 7 Annies it was
up for. I am a little leary of The Incredibles 2 because it was a traditional and
good movie and the Academy often likes to award Disney and Pixar.

Best Supporting Actor:

Mahershala Ali (Green Book) has this in the bag. He has won the Golden Globe,
the BAFTA, the SAG, and the Critics’ Choice Award. There’s a chance for Sam
Elliott or Richard E. Grant (for A Star is Born and Can you Ever Forgive Me,  respectively). 

Foreign Language Film: 

Roma is a lock. Enough Said.

Best Editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody will probably win. There’s a small chance Vice could take it
out. Bohemian Rhapsody was basically saved in the editing bay.

Best Visual Effects:

Avengers Infinity Wars will probably take it, but this is a very tough category to
predict. There’s room for an upset from Ready Player One and First Man. Solo
and Christopher Robin don’t have much of a chance of winning so your options
are Avengers, Ready Player One and First Man.

Best Makeup and Hair:
Vice is pretty much a lock, just look at pictures of Christian Bale as Dick Cheney
and compare Christian Bale to the way he normally looks. Vice is easily going to
take it.

Best Supporting Actress:
This category is one of the toughest to predict. I have Rachel Weisz (the favorite) 

winning. Most people have Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) winning.
This race is eerily similar to the Sylvester Stallone and Mark Rylance race from a
couple years back, where if you don’t know (long-time readers of my blog will
probably remember the race, but new readers probably won’t), Sylvester
Stallone’s performance in Creed was winning every award he was nominated for.
However, he was not nominated for SAG or BAFTA. SAG went for Idras Elba,
who was not nominated for the Oscar, and BAFTA went for Rylance. At the
Oscar’s, Rylance pulled out a surprise upset. This year Regina King was not
nominated at SAG or BAFTA. SAG went for Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) and
BAFTA went for Rachel Weisz. Blunt is also not nominated for an Oscar either.
So based on the similarity between Rylance and Stallone, it is very likely that Regina King will lose this also to Rachel Weisz.

Best Cinematography:

Roma is pretty much a lock. There is a small possibility of an upset from Cold 

War. Cold War is nominated for 3 Oscars. One is Best Director, but I see this as
the only category it could win.

Best Documentary Feature:
I am going with RBG only because of the political climate. The Academy might  want to make a statement and throw their support to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
There’s a 49% chance that Free Solo could be an upset. Even though I have not
seen it, it does seem like more of a cinematic achievement. I have seen RBG,
and it’s an awesome documentary.

Best Score:
I’m going with If Beale Street Could Talk on this one. The composer, Nicholas
Britell was previously nominated for Moonlight, but he lost to Justin Gabriel
Hurwitz who did First Man this year and won the Golden Globe but is nowhere to
be seen on this list. This category could have any number of winners.

Sound Editing and Sound Mixing:
I hedging my bets and predicting Bohemian Rhapsody for both. This movie is
virtually a lock for sound mixing, however, sound editing gives us a major
possibility A Quiet Place (and it’s not nominated for Sound Mixing).

Best Original Screenplay:
t’s basically a two-way race between The Favorite and Green Book. The
Writers’ Guild gave us zero help in this category because they gave this
to Eighth Grade (which, in the biggest SNUB of the year, didn’t get any
nominations). It’s a very close call, but my gut says Green Book will win. 

Best Live Action Short:
This one is probably one of the toughest one to predict. I have barely any idea
who’s going to win, but my gut says Fauve, but any one of the nominees could
take it.

Best Costume Design:
Black Panther MAY pull this one out, but The Favorite is the big costume-period
drama that the voters seem to like in this category.

Best Actress: 

Glenn Close (The Wife) seems to be a lock for her very first Oscar. There’s a 

potential for an by Lady GaGa (A Star is Born) or Olivia Colman (The Favorite).

Best Song:
Shallow from A Star is Born will easily take it and give Lady GaGa an Oscar

Best Director:
Alfonso Cauron  is pretty much the favorite for Roma  . This will be
his second Oscar. He won his first for Gravity.

Best Production Design:
I am predicting Black Panther here, but The Favorite could very easily pull off
an upset.

Best Animated Short:
I am predicting One Small Step though Pixar’s Bao has a very good shot at
winning as well. Any of the others could also take it.

Best Adapted Screenplay:
BlackkKlansman will probably take it and give Spike Lee his first competitive
Oscar. I am leery of only because Can You Ever Forgive Me? because it won the Writers’ Guild.

Best Actor:
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) is pretty much a lock. There is a small chance of an upset by Christian Bale (Vice)

Best Documentary Short:
I have actually seen all of the shorts nominated here. My personal favorite is
is End Game (not to be confused with the new Avengers movie coming out). And
I think it will win because it is directed by two-time winner Robert Epstein. Period. End of Sentence could pull off an upset because Lisa Taback, who is a former Harvey Weinstein associate, is now working for Netflix and has a very strong campaign for this movie (I believe she is also running the campaign for Roma).

Best Picture:
I have basically absolutely no idea who is going to take this. You can make the
case for five of them. BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Green Book, Roma, and
The Favorite are all legitimate contenders with a thin argument for A Star is
Born. From the research, your safest bet is Roma or Green Book. However, I
currently have BlacKkKlansman winning due to the fact it has directing and editing nods which are key to winning best picture. It was also nominated for SAG
Ensemble (their version of Best Picture) which usually catapults that film into

The Best Picture. The Shape of Water broke that tradition last year. On a
side-note, Black Panther won Ensemble this year.
With the preferential ballot, there are very few people that had a visceral reaction to BlacKkKlansman, so  they could have rated it highly. Any of those five could take it, and this
prediction could change many times between now and Oscar night.

Well, Oscar night is this Sunday. I beg you to give the Academy what they want - ratings, so we never need to hear about the best popular film or them removing categories from their broadcast again. There is still time to vote in my end of the year poll as well as the runoff for last year’s poll. You will find details in the events section in my blog. Due to a low number of submissions, I have extended the deadline to March 5. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™ 

Mr.Bee 


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The 2019 Oscar Host is… Nobody...Have They Done it Before?

Hello and welcome.  I’m sorry that I haven’t posted any blogs lately due to my hectic schedule.  I promise that my awards-season coverage will be up-and-running in February. Now, to start things off, I’m sure that you’ve heard about the little controversy involving (the then-host) Kevin Hart back in December.  He was announced as the host of the Oscars only to step down a day later when homophobic tweets resurfaced that he did not apologize for. Now I would generally stay out of this discussion because the story has received enough media attention, and have little relevant insight as a straight, white, male.  But, long story short, we had a bunch of nothing coming in the way of news about what the Academy was going to do. Either everyone they asked said “No” - for the record, no one asked me - or the Academy wanted to move in a new direction. Nevertheless, the Academy decided to move on with no host.

But I have a question for you; Is it really a new direction or is it actually an old direction (or, as the Academy might put, a “senior direction” as the member's high-up in the Academy get offended when you use the term “old”)?  Well, l want to take you back to early-Oscars history. The Oscars started on May 16, 1929, and the ceremony only lasted 16 minutes (you would be correct to assume that was the shortest ceremony on record). There was a host that year - action hero and president of the Academy, Douglas Fairbanks.  I did an essay on him a couple years ago that you can reference if you want more information on him. The ceremony had a host every year until 1939. In case you’re interested, that ceremony lasted 2 hours and 6 minutes, and the best picture winner was You Can’t Take it With You.  As for the way that they presented the awards that year, it is relatively unknown because there is barely any video or sound footage of the ceremony due to the fact that the Oscars wouldn’t be broadcast on national radio until two years later and television coverage wouldn’t start until 1953.  As a result, all that we have from the early ceremonies were photos and the very rare newsreel footage.

The next thirty years they had a host, and Bob Hope hosted a large portion of those.  From 1969 to 1971 the Oscars again went hostless and how they presented the awards, as you would suspect, was just having presenters.  One interesting this was that in those years they introduced all the presenters at the beginning of the ceremonies. For the next several years, they had hosts because there were three or four hosts per ceremony.  And then in 1989, they again went without a host. They did, however, have an opening number in ‘89 with Rob Lowe and Snow White which almost led to a lawsuit from Disney. This is ironic in that Disney would go on to buy ABC about 6 years later.  Not surprisingly, a whole bunch of the audience members were horrified at what they saw. The next year that Academy had to do “damage control” by getting Billy Crystal to host for the first of what would be 9 times. There was a host from then until every year since...up to now.  

Moving on to some other award shows, going hostless is not as uncommon as you may think.  The Golden Globes went hostless for much of their existence because they thought that a host may ruin their laid-back atmosphere.  They have, however, used a host every year since 2010. The SAG Awards didn’t have a host until last year. The Annies have not had a host for the last five years and the ceremony is probably better because of it.  For one thing, it shortens the ceremony considerably which is good because it starts at 10:00 p.m. (my time). There are many other award shows that also don’t have hosts, but I would be here all night listing them all.  

So, overall, I don’t think that going hostless is a problem for the Oscars at the least.  Do I like a host for the Oscars? Yeah, as long as it’s not Franco and Hathaway. There are ways to make the ceremony entertaining without a host.  Also, going hostless might make the Oscars a little shorter as well. So, as long as they don’t give Rob Lowe a musical number with Snow White again, I think that the show will probably be fine.  

There is still time to vote in my end-of-the-year poll plus my run-off for last year.  Details are in the “Events” section. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™

Mr.Bee

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End of 2018 Poll Rules

Happy New Year Everyone! 2018 has brought us Black Panther and Avengers Infinity War. The Academy was on the verge of making the worst mistake in its history only to reverse it a month later. And, as far as this blog goes, I have finally updated the sections and done some serious experimenting in other ways of getting my movie reviews and talking about movies and countless delays. Now that 2018 is behind us, it’s time for my end of the year poll. Oh, and by the way, there is still time to vote in the run-off in last year’s poll. We currently have a tie between Groundhog’s Day and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The rules are very simple for this year’s poll:


No NC-17 movies


Made-for-TV or direct to video movies do count but need to have a minimum running time of at least an hour


No movies that I have done an actual review on


Only one vote per person


Please put the year of the submission that you’d like me to review so that I know exactly which movie or version that you mean


You have until February 28th to get a movie submitted!

In order to vote, you can email me (thatbradley@gmail.com) or you can comment. If you have not voted on my run-off poll from last year, I have added a write-in section to the form. Once again, Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™ Here’s hoping for a great 2019!  

Mr.Bee
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Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam Mr. Bee’s review

Hello! Welcome to my 100th blog. Yes, after 4 years of blogs with topics including talking, animated dinosaurs that should have went extinct 20 years ago, literally yelling at the academy, through the worst movie of the 21st century Cool Dog, one of Dr. Seuss’s weirdest projects The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (which is saying a lot ), and essays about Douglas Fairbanks and the definition of a blockbuster, and my end of the year polls but we have been through it all together. What topic do I have planned for this momentous occasion ? Well I will be officially starting my Ernest reviews which will probably take me to my 200th blog 4 years from now at the rate I go! Lets begin with the 1st movie in the Ernest franchise (if you can call this an actual Ernest movie). Shall we begin?




Background :
Just to let you know , I found very little behind the scenes facts on this movie but I will share with you what I did find so this section won’t be in “earnest“. The movie was directed by John Cherry (get used to hearing the name as he has directed all but one of the Ernest movies). The movie was apparently released in 1986 but it was not released on video until 1992 by Good Times Home Video. The funny thing is , I found no mention of it being in Theaters! So what happened during that 6 years is a mystery. Was it only shown to a select group of people? Was it shown on TV? I never found any evidence of it airing . Did they have trouble finding a distributor? Was it only in a very limited release or were Varney and Cherry embarrassed by what they made so they locked it away for 6 years? Or perhaps they just misplaced it! We just don’t know!




Plot:

Dr. Otto is a mad scientist with a hand on his head (Why is there a hand on his head? It is never quiet explained). He created this machine that will warp matter and the only one that can stop it is a rather stupid hero, Lance Sterling. Armed with a riddle that reads "When the money is scrambled to the very last cent, riots and hatred soon will commence. When all the world's commerce will be put in a bind, from the evil that lurks where the sun never shines. It is I, Dr. Otto von Schnick-ick-ick-ick, who has played on you this trick-ick-ick-ick." 'But who's Dr. Otto?' you may well ponder, while all your magnetic cash is squandered. It's he who had an eye, and yet couldn't see. It's he who served bouillabaisse, when he was a she. It's he who gambled with brains, and a gun. It's he who had all, and yet had none. And to stop this horrible twisted trick, just exchange the poles of old Saint Nick. And if that doesn't do to save the day, put another quarter in and try another play." Our hero meets some of Dr. Otto’s disguises, and that includes a pirate, and a classic impression of an old lady.




Opinion:
This movie is rather weird and bizarre. The movie feels really episodic. In the theoretical sense, it might work well as a mini series. But there is several scenes that just feel rather forced and not really that funny. On the other hand, there are also some things that are just hilarious. Overall, the acting is good. Jim Varney is of course putting his all into it. On the technical level, the movie is pretty good. Everything in it on a technical level is good, there is nothing in that sense that I can really criticize. With the exception of the cinematography, they could get a rather weird shot. By the way, Ernest did not appear until the very end of the movie, so if you are coming there for Ernest, you are going to be rather disappointed. Overall, I’m going to have to give Dr. Otto a 3 out of 5 star rating.

There is still time to vote it the run off of my end of the year poll. Thank you everyone for reading, whether this is your first blog or you started with my first one, I am forever grateful that you’ve taken the time to read any of my 100 blogs. Thank you and goodnight and Happy Holidays!



Mr.Bee 

  

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The Academy’s Feet [Thankfully] Get Cold

Roughly three weeks ago, the Academy attempted to get their dignity back by postponing the roll-out of the “Best Popular Film” Oscar until further notice. Now if you read the blog that I did last month, you will know that I did not care for the decision, so their choice was for the best to put a hold on the category altogether. Now the Academy “reportedly” did it it primarily give the studios time to campaign for the category in the future and also to clarify rules, so it may re-emerge. Now the CEO of the Academy, Dawn Hudson, gave this statement. “There has been a wide range of reactions to the introduction of a new award, and we recognize the need for further discussion with our members. We have made changes to the Oscars over the years—including this year—and we will continue to evolve while also respecting the incredible legacy of the last 90 years.” Now this is a nice little political statement that doesn’t give us a whole lot of details. The president of the Academy, John Bailey, is reportedly all-in on the idea. That causes me pause. So, if this guy is very high up in the Academy, it worries me that when they usually vote and announce new rules for the Oscars in March or April, I am worried that we will be in the same boat that we were in back in August when they re-announce the Best Popular Film Oscar category AGAIN. There is a possibility that they will call it something else, but I hope that the internet and other people realize that they are just calling the same (unnecessary) category a different name. Although, with the way that the news cycle is these days, they may have forgotten about the original Best Popular Film Oscar in the first place - I still have my worries. What I hope is that the Academy is just saying that it’s postponed just to not upset the two people outside the administration of the Academy and of ABC that are for this category. Now they will continue with the two other changes to the Oscars: moving the Oscars to early February in 2020 and putting and presenting more Oscars during commercial breaks to cut down on the broadcast time. It was announced that the number of categories in the actual broadcast of the show will be between 6-8 categories. To put that into perspective, do you know how many Oscar categories there are? There are 24! So pretty much up to 75% of the categories could be CUT from the show. So, I guess they really want more time to have the next host to pass out and sell girl scout cookies!

Well, thank you all for reading this delayed blog. Now I will tell you that in the next couple months there will be major changes in how I talk about movies. But I’m not in the mood to announce it just yet, so stay tuned! By the way, there is still time to vote for my run-off to my end-of -the-year poll. So, please vote so that I don’t have to do the winner of the end-of-the-year poll for 2017 in 2019. So, once again, thank you very much for reading. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™ 

Mr.Bee 

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The Academy’s Desperation Removes Dignity!

    

    Hello Everyone! It has been four years since I started this Blog.  Now I am actually breaking a tradition here as I usually review a Don Bluth movie. However, the Academy must have wanted me to criticize them again, because it’s been over a year since I did a huge rant about them. So last week the Academy announced 3 big changes to the Oscars. One of which is something that doesn’t make much difference. The second  I may be able to live with. The third, however, is a terrible idea and whoever thought of it should really take a good long look in the mirror. So let’s begin:

    The first and least foolish decision is that in 2020 the Oscars will be moving from Late Feb or early March (on winter Olympic Year) to early/ mid February, the idea is to attract more viewers, by shortening award season. This idea may work but, I don’t feel it will make much difference.  Award Season at the moment really begins in early January with The Golden Globes and ends in late Feb with the aforementioned Oscars. The reason it won’t make much difference is because, the other award ceremonies will also move their dates earlier. I've got news for them, “the other Award Shows really like to predict the Oscars.”

The second change is that they are going to be more cautious on the length of the ceremony.  It is only supposed to run for 3 hours but tends to run anywhere from a couple minutes to two hrs over (it usually only runs an hour over). What they are going to do is eliminate some of the smaller categories out of the telecast by presenting them during commercial breaks and then highlight the acceptance speech when the telecast resumes. Now the Tonys do the same thing which I can't say I like but I don't mind it because it’s traditional for them. My opinion that doing this during the Oscars is disrespectful because these people work very hard and receive very little fame or fortune. You can make the telecast shorter without removing them and by not performing the best song nominees. Also by removing all the fillers such as Neil Patrick Harris’ predictions, Chris Rock selling Girl Scout cookies, and Jimmy Kimmel going across the street to another theater and surprising the audience as they were watching a Wrinkle In Time . It seems that the Academy prefers These Moments, over what they are supposed to be doing which is honoring the previous years best in film.

Now the final and worst of all is that there is going to be a new category called Best Popular Film. First of all the title needs to be changed immediately! You hear this every year, “why did this or that picture not get nominated for best picture”. Some of them for instance The Avengers probably is not best picture material (although my 7th grade mind did think it was ) but other movies like Logan definitely are.  My last rant about the Oscars was on the animation category which is very much like a participation trophy. That is saying that with the animation category, an animated movie winning best picture within 10 to 20 years is basically zero percent. Getting nominated is a little higher but still very low. The Academy is basically doing the same exact thing to Blockbusters! What exactly do they  mean by popular films? Do they mean how much the audience scored it on sites like cinemascore or do they mean box office numbers and if so how much does a movie need to make? For instance does it merely need to make back its budget or make a billion dollars? Also if this is like a participation trophy, if they had this from early beginnings, would fan favorite movies which were best picture contenders when they came out such as Get Out and Avatar even be nominated for best picture.  There have been fan favorite movies that have gone on to win best picture like the final Lord of the Rings film, Titanic, and even earlier The Sound of Music. In other words would those movies still have won or would the Academy have felt the best popular film trophy would have been sufficient?The only thing that the Academy has clarified about this new category is that the nominees for best popular film will still be eligible for the best picture award.

In conclusion, I think two of the decisions are bad, one worse than the other, and the other will not make a difference. All of these changes are for ratings but the best popular film award might just backfire on them!  

My thanks to everyone that has read my blogs for the last 4 years and my volunteer staff for helping to get every blog out! I will be forever grateful to all of you! Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

Mr.Bee

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So What Constitutes a “Blockbuster”, Anyway?

                                               
Originally Published on May 31 2018
Hi! This was originally written as an essay for my film class last year. Now that the industry seems to be churning out more and more big-budget, high-grossing movies, I figured now was an appropriate time. Also, my blog posts are becomming more and more scarce these day...so, sit back and enjoy this ‘blockbuster’ edition of my blog.


Mr.Bee


A Hollywood Blockbuster can be an expected or a surprise based solely off ticket sales. A modern example for an expected blockbuster is Star Wars: The Force Awakens while an unexpected blockbuster is Deadpool. The three characteristics that both these films share are starpower or notoriety and a diverse audience bolstering box-office returns.


True Hollywood blockbusters either have notable movie stars and/or another form of notoriety. For example, the name “Star Wars” alone automatically gives a film credibility even though an argument can be made that there may not be a true “a-list” celebrity in the movie. However, most blockbusters draw obvious stars. For example, Ryan Reynolds, the star of Deadpool, was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive. Notoriety through either measure makes the public more likely to pay the ticket price to go see the/their movie on the big screen. Batman vs. Superman was a recent “blockbuster” despite the fact that most critics panned the movie as sub-par. The movie, overall, did not perform as expected but still made $873 million on a $250 million dollar budget. The Transformers franchise is also another example of poorly received blockbusters. Many film fans consider the series one of the worst of all time, but they keep making money and movies. Some form of notoriety is the reason that nearly half of summer blockbusters are remakes or sequels.





A true blockbuster has a huge box-office intake due to its appeal to a diverse audience . In order to be a box-office hit, it has to make double its budget including advertising. In addition, if a movie has a far-reaching appeal, then it sustain its popularity thereby bolstering its intake. For example, a movie like Frozen, which, granted isn’t your typical blockbuster, was a box-office darling that audiences couldn’t let go of. Children loved the movie and watched it over and over again and it was watchable by adults because they were also entertained. Further, merchandising for the movie held on for years. Another instance of appealing to a diverse audience is the United States’ overall apathy for foreign films. Many foreign films are critically acclaimed, but don’t become blockbusters because they can’t draw a big audience in the States because of lack of interest. Spirited Away or Ponyo are examples. In summary, a blockbuster needs a broad appeal and relatability in order for people to go see it thereby increasing its box office take.

Bibliography

https://www.writersstore.com/secrets-of-blockbuster-movies-part-1/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-11-defining-features-of-the-summer-blockbuster/

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016

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