La 95e cérémonie annuelle des Oscars

You wasted so much time on Jimmy Kimmel being painfully unfunny. He has the LEAST amount of charisma as any Oscar host ever. His jokes are nothing but references to Oscar movies with no substance or comedic timing. Why the hell has he been invited back so many times. The show worked SO well without a host at all. Every time Jimmy Kimmel goes on stage, the pacing of the show grinds to a screeching halt.

You wasted so much time with a bunch of stupid skits that nobody wanted. "Wow look it's Jimmy Kimmel in a popular movie. How original. It's not like I've seen that exact same joke in every mediocre Oscar year".

You wasted SO MUCH TIME on random montages. This one is really bizarre. Because the films included in the montages are from completely different years, completely different genres, and most of them are Disney owned properties. This adds nothing to the Oscars, it's clearly just completely unnecessary padding.

You wasted all of this time, and you STILL cut off half of the acceptance speeches.

And on top of all that, you made a joke about cutting off the visual effects artists. Even though they fix Hollywood's broken movies, get paid pennies, and often go out of business for doing so.

The Oscars is a joke and nobody cares. Just shorten the damn thing. Give out every award. Cut out the hosts. Make the Oscars a celebration of art, rather than a 3 hour long Hollywood circle jerk.

. . . of this year's Academy Awards program. There were songs. There were dances. Celebrity cameos. Jokes galore. Some of the Favorites won. Some of the Dark Horses triumphed. Half of the ten Best Picture nominees reaped a total of zero shiny statuettes between them. The remaining quintet garnered 14 top prizes, with one lucky Mega Ball winner grabbing 7 of them, and another streaming service entry notching a quartet of trophies. Who cares if a few--or even most--of the glitterati in attendance wouldn't be caught dead in an actual movie theater, despite their frequent hypocritical tributes to flicks which had drawn in the Paying Public to see "movies like they were meant to be seen." Most of we normal, regular people also would prefer to stream the latest films--or view them on free "screen-er" discs--in the comfort of our own homes, if this were an affordable option available to us. To argue otherwise would smack of "sour grapes."

. . . is only a presenter, and NOT a nominee, after his star turn as "Keith Gill" in DUMB MONEY. I think this awards "snub" can be attributed to P. D.'s lack of conditioning, and by inference, lukewarm commitment to this role. In Real Life, Keith ran a 4:03 mile. Having personally witnessed workouts by a 3:57 four-lap dude, as well as another racer who clocked a 1:50 half in high school, I was NOT impressed or convinced by DUMB MONEY's frequent--failed--attempts to portray Keith doing interval training on his local track. My 3:57 one-time teammate would push himself through three laps under three minutes during workouts. Then, after a 60-second break, he would see how much faster than one minute he could run a fourth lap. Mr. 1:50 would run sets of a dozen training quarters, during which a younger teammate would race him all-out the final 220. None of this comes through during DUMB MONEY's scenes at the track. This is where Paul falls far short of RAGING BULL.

Eight years after #OscarsSoWhite movement the Academy took steps toward racial and cultural diversity in its structure. Today however we continue to debate on exclusion, which I think stems from selected overrate and selected overlook.

Award winners Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh are undeniably good actors but what about Cate Blanchett or Austin Butler and the movies like Tar and Elvis? The little multiverse mudder Everything Everywhere All At Once is a mediocre film lacking a heart to relate. Academy maybe demonstrated its stance for diversity but also overlooked the artistic merits as sole benchmark for awards.

My personal awards this year go to Tar, Elvis and Belgium film Close.

Sticking to the tradition of watching the oscars the day after it airs, this installment was actually quite good. Most (if not, all) of these films that either got nominated or won were most deserving, as the films I did see out of the bunch were exceptional films. Most of the speeches were great (most notably everyone that won for best picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once) and I found the musical performances more entertaining than past Oscar ceremonies. My only gripe is that when the winners would be on their way upstage, the announcer who's giving information about the said winners was just way too quiet, and was barraged with background music, so I wasn't ever able to hear what she was saying. Jimmy Kimmel nailed it as the presenter though, making a few Will Smith jokes that seriously made me laugh out loud, and we got an appearance from cocaine bear, so honestly, win. This oscars was a win IMO, and am excited to watch these movies that were either nominated or won.