And then the sun itself will turn us all to sand

[sovay]

Spurred by a gloomy desire to know what the hell movie Spike Lee's era-defining Do the Right Thing (1989) lost Best Original Screenplay to at the 62nd Academy Awards, spatch and I just spent the last hour reading Oscar nominations and results from 1990 onward, an activity punctuated by frequent cries of "[X] was robbed!" "[Y] should have been nominated!" and "That was poop!" I had forgotten how many years I had opinions about. I've seen even more of those movies now. I have more opinions.

The answer to our original question, by the way, was Dead Poets Society. My opinion about that is: "That was poop!"

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[handful_ofdust]

"That was poop!" pretty much sums up my own feelings on the subject.;)

Yeah, the Oscars are, in the main, political--not political so much in terms of current presidency or whatever, but political in terms of who votes and why. That's why you so often get at least one instance of the You're Old And You're Gonna Die award (the Don Ameche in Cocoon special) per session, occasionally known as the Okay We Get It, You're Good, Shut Up Already award. I think that Gary Oldman won under the latter proviso. That's also why we got that fairly amazing article where a bunch of older Academy members admitted to just not having watched Get Out, because they decided it simply wasn't "an Oscar film."

[sovay]

"That was poop!" pretty much sums up my own feelings on the subject.

It's a remarkably applicable phrase.

occasionally known as the Okay We Get It, You're Good, Shut Up Already award. I think that Gary Oldman won under the latter proviso.

I'd been figuring Oldman and Deakins were something like that, but it's still nonplussing when it happens. (Especially since I wouldn't have minded in the case of Varda, but nope!)

That's also why we got that fairly amazing article where a bunch of older Academy members admitted to just not having watched Get Out, because they decided it simply wasn't "an Oscar film."

Whoa whoa whoa, I'm not surprised they felt like that, but they said it on the record?

[ethelmay]

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/03/oscars-sausage-gets-made has a discussion of an article about one such voter.

[sovay]

a discussion of an article about one such voter.

Oh, God, spatch read me parts of that article! It made me want to join the Academy just because I'd do a better job watching, voting, and thinking than that example.