Btw I never said Beatty announced anything or read anything. It was Faye that read it. I don't think she was expecting it to be the wrong card.
There are people that now believe white people tried to sabotage Moonlight from winning.
Btw I never said Beatty announced anything or read anything. It was Faye that read it. I don't think she was expecting it to be the wrong card.
There are people that now believe white people tried to sabotage Moonlight from winning.
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I didn't care who won. I saw all of them except Lion. Each movie had its own flavor. I get that Moonlight was the "serious" choice and I thought it was well done. My favorite movies of those nominated were Hidden Figures and Manchester by the Sea. I was glad to see Lonergren win the Original Screenplay. There's a lot of backlash against La La Land and I get that. The story wasn't that great and certainly didn't have the emotional or intellectual heft of many of the nominees, but I was glad to see Chazelle win Best Director because he constructed a very impressive piece of work.
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The critical backlash against La La Land really humored me, but it may have killed its chances for Best Picture. Again, I thought it was a weak story that was made into a pretty good movie. Moonlight was a great story that was put together fairly well, but its construction wasn't as complicated as what Chazelle did. Stories don't tell themselves and Barry Jenkins did a good job as Director, but the power of the story and the deft touch of the screenplay made Moonlight almost impossible to screw up.
The Academy waxes and wanes and there's often some measure of payback for an overlooked performance. Rod Steiger doesn't win for a tour de force performance in The Pawnbroker and then wins two years later for playing a caricature of a redneck Southern sheriff in In the Heat of the Night. Same could probably said for Di Caprio winning for The Revenant when some his earlier performances were stronger.
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jpx7 (02-27-2017)
Very true—and I've cited the Di Caprio example myself multiple times.
Pawnbroker is amazing. Lumet's 1960s output is perennially underrated relative to his 1970s work (and he's generally a bit under-appreciated in the pantheon, I think, awkwardly-sandwiched as his rise was between the waning of Golden Age Hollywood and the late-60s suppuration of the American Nouvelle Vague).
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