A few years ago, Obama humiliated Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. People laughed AT Trump. He was publicly humiliated. His racist blood was boiling. Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel publicly humiliated Trump at the Oscar’s. The audience cheered when he said it was “past your jail time”. I wish more people would do that. It’s Trump’s weakness. #Oscars #TrumpForPrison
When a Jewish man protests your hijacking his Jewishness & the Holocaust to justify your occupation, & your response is to (loudly, repeatedly & falsely) tell everyone that what he has actually done is renounced his Jewishness, guess what?
You are hijacking his Jewishness to suit your occupation.
Ryan Gosling has released a statement detailing his disappointment at the lack of Oscar nominations for his ""Barbie" director and co-star. “There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film,” Gosling wrote. Here's more from Uproxx.
Jonathan Glazer, a Jewish filmmaker who won an Oscar for a movie about the Holocaust, has been branded an anti-semite by numerous right-wing politicos and Israeli media outlets and politicians for saying, in his Oscars speech, "we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza."
I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.
She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"
And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.
John Williams is among 19 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The 92-year-old composer has won five of the 53 Oscars he was nominated for, and also conducted the Boston Pops for more than a decade and has composed classical concertos. Here's a story from ABC on Williams and the other 18 inductees to the Academy of Arts this year, which included composer Terence Blanchard, novelist Alice McDermott and artist Matthew Barney. We want to know, which is your favorite of these (some answers are movies and others are franchises where more appropriate).
“Gladstone is far from the first actor to lose the Oscar despite winning the SAG Award, a list that includes Denzel Washington (Fences), Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) and Viola Davis twice (for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Help).”
Huh. Seems like there’s something they must all have in common. Hold on, it’ll come to me. #Oscars
There are no categories for animals in the Academy Awards, though last month, the Academy announced on X, "The Oscar for bestest boi goes to Messi from Anatomy of a Fall." Esquire magazine recognized this grave injustice last year, when it gave Jenny the Donkey from "Banshees of Inisherin" the first annual Best Animal Actor award. Here's their breakdown of animal actors this year. We want to know, what was the most iconic animal performance of all time.
Barbie Fans: No Oscar nomination for Greta Gerwig or Margot Robbie, but you gave a nomination to Ryan Gosling — did you miss the point of the "Barbie" film‽
Hollywood Boys' Club: We saw the point, we didn't like it, and we want you to know.
"Oppenheimer" is nominated for 13 Oscars this year and Christopher Nolan is a frontrunner for Best Director. Here's @IndieWire ranking of his entire filmography, from his debut in 1998 to today. Which of his 12 movies is your favorite (this poll is in order of IndieWire's preference, with "Dunkirk" as the publication's top pick)?
…Emma Stone on her role in Poor Things where she plays an adult woman with a mind of a child, kinda like the woman who gave the response to the state of the union Thursday night. #Oscars2024#Oscars
Scott George and his fellow Osage Tribal Singers just finished a performance of his Oscar-nominated song, “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)," at the ceremony. Here's an interview with him from the Oklahoman about his music-writing process and how he came to write for the "Killers of the Flower Moon" soundtrack.
The #Oscars and #Monsterdon are getting all mashed up in my TL, and speaking as someone who is watching neither of them, it improves the former greatly
There are just a few weeks to go until the Oscars ceremony. In preparation, @RollingStone has ranked the Best Picture winners of the past 20 years. We reckon no one will be surprised at the bottom two (both heavy-handed, simplistic takes on racism in America) but which do you think they said was No. 1? https://flip.it/Qh89WY
Best speech at the #Oscars tonight, by Cord Jefferson who won for Best Adapted Screenplay:
"I understand this is a risk-averse industry – but instead of making one $200 million movie, try making ten $20 million movies. The next Scorsese is out there, the next Nolan is out there; They just want a shot.”
From worst film to worst screen couple, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” won all five categories for which it was nominated at the 2024 Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as the Razzies. The awards, held on “Oscar Eve” and hosted by comics Aaron Goldenberg and Jake Jonez (The Mean Gays), honor the worst of Hollywood’s year. The Hollywood Reporter has more. https://flip.it/WVBrTn #Culture#Entertainment#Movies#Hollywood#Razzies#Oscars
Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier alongside presenter and previous year's winner for Best Actress, Anne Bancroft, at the 36th Academy Awards, 1964 #Oscars
With 13 Oscar nominations, all signs point to #Oppenheimer as the star of the 96th #AcademyAwards. But a historian – whose research has revolved around the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing – explains why they are disappointed by the award-winning film.
“Yet again, the dominant narrative of the bombs chugs along,” writes Naoko Wake of Michigan State University. And the victims aren’t shown.