I stopped watching The Oscars years ago.

Based on the stories about the constant negative references to Trump I think I made the right decision.

Why am I not surprised? :rolleyes:

Well, at least Jimmy Kimmel was there to hit home the message that the Oscars are a big joke. -a bunch of self-important yahoos looking for a virtue signaling venue. :)

So who would have bet Suicide Squad would be an Oscar winner?

Loved Kimmel's bit bringing the tour bus participants into the theatre. Genuine surprise going on there.

From what the news reported this morning.....they handed him and her (Faye) the WRONG ENVELOPE!

Not Beatty's fault.....


Dear Hollywood: Karma is a *****.... :D

Yeah, not their fault. On another note, Halle Berry again shows she's a class act, in a world of bimbos and bimbettes. Scarlet Jo too, IMO

My guess it was a device to drum up interest in an even about which not a lot of people GAFF.

why would they have different envelopes, they know days ahead, they print this stuff up, there just isn't any excuse for doing it. Maybe Trump did it, I didn't watch but hear he got blamed for everything, he hacked the Oscars too. Good job President Trump.

Don't know what sucked more, Oscars or Daytona 500??

Done with it for today. I'm getting too old to do back-to-back night work. I just don't get up too smiley at 2:00 AM. Same reason I'm backing off of international travel for features. It was lots of fun when I was 20-30 years younger.

BTW, Jimmy Kimmel is also one of my shows. I've only chatted with him once or twice, but found him to be very sharp and lucid.

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The commercials were better than the movies nominated - in all categories.
In a contest between the super bowl and Oscar commercials, Oscar won.
Kimmel was good with the running gag with Matt Damon carried over from his late-night, and his 'trumped up' remarks regarding Meryl were a riot.
Sorry, but I watched the whole thing - after the rerun of Columbo was over on COZIHD.
Bill K

I love watching mostly mega rich celebrities give each other awards (/sarcasm) because clearly, fame and money is not enough... They need recognition and a statuette too !!! Yawn.

Good for the little people though...

I see that last year's "no diversity in awards" was quickly rectified, I'm sure it' a total coincidence. No surprises except the screw up...

The "Oscars" employ about a thousand "little people" If you include all the film crews, editors, drivers, dry cleaners, restaurant workers and me, and on-and-on, it's around a million people in the TV and film industry, in mostly good paying jobs.

Not sure what the point is, weren't you complaining about stating up late initially ? ;-) .... Hopefully that's not a huge chunk of your living, and making movies is... To me it's an award show for (mostly) people who do not need any more pats on the back for fear their egos will explode... I mentioned the little people as "not the stars" - I'm *glad* those get recognition (the effect guy, the sound guy, the costume lady, whatever, great)... Best actor ? don't much care, they are likely rich and famous already...

Give awards to ER doctors ;-)

True but when he looked down and saw, "Best Actress--Emma Stone", he should have stopped right there and looked to the wings for the correct envelope. Instead, he just decided that it meant La La Land was the best picture winner.

For someone who has been in show biz for 60 years, he really schit the bed. And Price Waterhouse's reputation is squarely in the outhouse where it belongs. Their whole rep is based on handling the Oscars balloting and handing these envelopes to dumb celebrities to read in front of a billion people. So that was a bit of a fail. :rolleyes:

Sorry if my point wasn't clear, I don't care about the Oscars, I like that people like me and craigster and FXeditor and a few others manage to ekk out a living here.

props to the little guy.


anytime I watch some episode of Deadliest Catch, rock climbing documentary of Everest or other challenging images, there is a guy behind the lens and team behind getting the shot,

Hey I got no problem with these people giving each other awards, but they really do award each other a lot! Oscars, People's Choice, SAG, Golden Globes...

What I have a problem with is at the end of the day, they pretend to be someone - secret agent, assassin, maid, whore, super hero, pirate, teacher, coach etc.- and then get filmed pretending to be that person. That's it!! Granted, the ones in the front few rows at the Oscars are the best in the world at what they do and deserve all the money, fame, adulation, whatever. But that doesn't mean their opinion on world events is any more valid than the cab driver, engineer, stock broker, welder, or any other profession.

And the other problem I have is how they think they are so brave for making a movie. WTF!??! How is that brave? Go fight a war or walk a beat or run into a flaming building. Don't pretend to be someone and then call yourself brave.

hahah..i got it!

That's a good one. 👍😬

Sure broke up an otherwise boring show.

No, that is not what happened.

Here is an acceptance speech by Viola Davis, for whatever prize she won. At about one minute in, she makes about the most pretentious claim I have ever heard an actor or actress make.
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Thought this was funny from The Onion.....

"Large Mirror Brought Out Onto Oscars Stage Gets Resounding 6-Minute Standing Ovation"

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Large Mirror Brought Out Onto Oscars Stage Gets Resounding 6-Minute Standing Ovation - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Keep up the good work, Hugh.

BTW: Watched a short news clip of the Oscar's rehearsal and where two twenty foot tall props fell over on stage. Looked like buildings.

Ah, yes it is. Did someone's foot tell you differently? :rolleyes:

The best picture show at the Oscars: the flub, the reactions, the blame - LA Times

STAGE PROP COMES CRASHING DOWN!
3,637 2/26/2017 4:01 PM PST
EXCLUSIVE
props_crashed_on_oscar_set_wm-3Part of the Oscars stage was left in shambles Sunday morning when a prop crashed down during rehearsals ... and TMZ got this photo of the damage.
The accident happened around 11:30 AM on the stage at the Dolby Theatre -- just hours before the award show was set to begin. We're told host Jimmy Kimmel was working out a skit at the time, but was off the stage.
The props, which appear to be skyscraper models, tumbled over and crushed a camera. We're told no one was injured though. One witness described it as making a "horrifying sound" as it tore down the curtain.
The show is set to begin at 5:30 PM PT ... so we're guessing there's a lot of scrambling going on to get things fixed. We've got a call in to the Oscars and ABC ... no word back yet.

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I don't see why Beatty gets a beating - he clearly thought something was wrong, as he froze when he saw the card and looked puzzled. He showed it to Faye Dunaway and she said La La Land won.

He shouldn't have handed it to her under the circumstances. That was a putz move.

Awards shows are like anything, some people love them and some hate them.
Not my cup of tea but I have friends who wouldn't miss one.
Did you get any OT Hugh? I often get to work goofy events at my work but get paid overtime for the inconvenience.

It's questionable whether he handed it to her. It may be he was showing her there a problem. Faye screwed up worse than Warren as she was the one who blurted out La La Land. She was exasperated with Warren of which there is allot of history between the two.

Almost all fault lies with the star-struck accountant, who effed up bigly. You do not hand a loaded weapon to a chimpanzee.

I'm salaried so no OT, but I'll take a comp day off soon.

I've worked with Ms. Dunaway. She's pretty much in La La Land as it is.

There you have it. Denis has joined her there. I did not even watch it and I know what happened better than he does.
Exactly, it is clearly wrong, in black and white, he looks at her and she bleats it out. A normal person would look at it, and think wow, they did not cover this in rehearsal. Then she opens her mouth and people start thinking he is the jerk. Normally, I would say, yes, Warren Beatty is a jerk. Not the case this time.