rocket1312

For those that don't follow football, the 49ers are actually one of the most successful franchises in NFL history and have plenty of hardware to show for it. Jeff is just completely insufferable.

Jaymole

If Dafoe was like the 49ers he would have 5 Oscars

GoldenJCJ

At this point, I’m not sure Jeff is even a 49ers fan and has just been giving us an Andy Kaufman-esque performance over the years.

d2cheer

It has become as obnoxious as stvn1974 Nolan rants...

Runaway

There might be the possibilty that Bruce Willis mind is already too far gone to attend such an event, but I do agree that his career merits a recogonition for his contribution to the movies. The last 10 years would have left a bad taste, but in hindsight he probably did most of those direct to dvd movies, because he wasn't able to do more complex stuff. For me, his impressive career end with Sin City 2, although I liked him in Once Upon a Time in Venice and Motherless Brooklyn a couple of years later.
Death Wish and Glass weren't a good farewell.

Count Dooku

I think it is more than a possibility now. That's why I wished that they had hurried up and done it in 2023.


I have it on good authority that the Academy has been trying to set up an honorary Oscar for Dafoe for years. They keep sending emails to william.dafoe@gmail but they never get any reply.

stvn1974

But is it as obnoxious as Nolan's fans?

rocket1312

Maybe stay off Reddit?

JeffTheAlpaca

That was 29 years ago or generations ago before celllphones and HDTV.

Cowboys have a 28 year drought and Washington a 31 year drought so they are all in the same boat or close to it.

Dafoe should have gotten it for the Florida Project.

Count Dooku

If San Fran, Dallas, and DC are all in he same boat, then Cleveland is down at the bottom of the ocean with Jack and that motherfucking necklace.

Decker

This just came across my timeliness. The way they recapped the Best Picture nominees was cool AF, and it only took a minute of screen time to do them all. So much better than this year, giving out the award with no list of nominees before. They need to go back to this.
And Grand Budapest Hotel should have won!

GoldenJCJ

^ 100% the way to do it. And the presenter can pre-record reading the list of nominees so they don’t fumble their way through the list live.

rocket1312

The animations are cool, but I actually like to see clips of the movies in question. When they don't show clips, the movies become almost ephemeral. Just names on a list to be read aloud. I don't remember that particular ceremony (or if I even watched it), but one thing I think the Oscars needs to do a better job of is giving the films context and helping viewers understand why they're great. I thought the actors introducing other actors this past year was a little clunky and awkward, but I appreciated the spirit behind it.

dex14

My eyes see... a better way to do it!

bluetoast

I know they won’t do this, but one possible solution is reduce the BP pool back to five. The expansion still feels weird years later, and every year there’s those three or four movies that have absolutely no chance of winning. Then you can show all the clips at the final moment with no pressure.

GoldenJCJ

They can still show clips of the nominees throughout the show. It’s just when it comes time to announce BP, it’s easier to just show a few seconds of animations to recap which films were nominated.

I like the idea of talking a little more about WHY the films are great. Maybe they could do that throughout the show when they show off the clips of each nominee.

Draven

Then we’ll be back to movies no one has seen.

etching

If they did it like the Remembrance segment, it would take like five seconds

story

Animations: Cool.

Sean Penn's Joke: Lame.

IIRC, they still showed all of the nominees throughout the evening, so this moment was not each film's only moment. They showed scenes of each. But as for the actual award moment, I think those animations were excellent.

bluetoast

I think I have a way to showcase all the nominees and the film history. This would be a 3 minute ish bit with audience interaction, linking all of the movies, six degree style. Some comedic linkings, some serious, and trying to refer to nominees and people in attendance. Written in an approximation of Jimmy Kimmel's voice. It would be planned so the appropriate audience members would be ready to react, but sound like it's being done on the fly. If possible have everyone named stand up at the end to show the connections, and display brief images of the linking movie but then permanently display the images of the nominated movies as they're named. There's multiple ways to link things, but a fun one:


We've got ten great movies nominated for Best Picture tonight, and I want to show you how they're all related. Oppenheimer, was of course directed by Christopher Nolan, who has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by the great Martin Scorsese. Now Martin has previously worked with Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street. Margot is here tonight as producer and star of Barbie, which also stars Ryan Gosling (yes, you can stand now Ryan) who has worked with Bradley Cooper (who by the way has also worked with Paul Giamatti - no don't stand yet Paul, we'll get back to you), who stars in Maestro. Maestro features the music of Leonard Bernstein, who provided the score for West Side Story (which also stars Rita Moreno, say hi to Lovely Rita), who was in Fast X featuring The Rock (hi Rock), who was in Jungle Cruise with Paul Giamatti (Okay now you can stand, Paul), who was in The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, who also directed Sideways. Sideways was scored by Rolfe Kent, who also scored Slums of Beverly Hills which features Rita Moreno – oh we already said Rita Moreno, hello again Rita – how do I get to Poor Things….oh yeah, Slums of Beverly Hills has Alan Arkin, who was in Dumbo with Michael Keaton. Why didn't I just go from Martin to Mark Ruffalo…anyway, Michael Keaton was in Birdman with Emma Stone, star of Poor Things, which features Willem Dafoe. Willem was in Asteroid City, directed by Wes Anderson (who’s…yeah he’s not here but hi anyway Wes), which also stars Jeffrey Wright, star of American Fiction, which also stars Issa Rae. Issa provided a voice in Across the Spider-Verse, and you know who else did? Greta Lee, star of Past Lives. Hi Greta. Okay, almost there, so Greta was also in St. Vincent with Bill Murray who provided the voice of Baloo in The Jungle Book. And Baloo’s pal Bagheera? That’s Ben Kingsley (who was also in Henry Sugar, Wes, why aren’t you here), who was in Sexy Beast directed by Jonathan Glazer, director of The Zone of Interest, starring Sandra Huller, who is also in Anatomy of a Fall.

Cellar Door

^Yeah, I don't think they want to highlight how insular Hollywood is. At least, no more than the awards already do.

bluetoast

Yeah that might be the no-go factor. And voice acting is basically a cheat code.

Count Dooku

They show clips of the movies throughout the show.

Count Dooku

Didn't see this post before I posted.

And talking about the movies would be great!

Decker

There was only one honor left for Nolan to receive this year, and now he has it.

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