00:00another Oscar ceremonies in the books
00:01and I've got the highs lows and
00:03everything in between right
00:10now hello everybody I'm Dan Merl here
00:12with my recap of last night's academy
00:15awards ceremony as of now as of the time
00:17I'm taping this we still don't quite
00:19know what the ratings were if ratings
00:21were able to tick up from Oppenheimer
00:23and Barbie being nominated but if more
00:25people were watching I hope that they
00:27like what they saw as expected it was a
00:29big night for Oppenheimer which rolled
00:31to several big wins it led all movies
00:33with seven Academy Awards that ties it
00:35with films like last year's everything
00:37everywhere all at once Schindler's List
00:39Patton All About Eve gravity and the
00:41sting among others poor things had the
00:43second most wins with four including
00:45best actress and three technical Awards
00:48and the zone of Interest won two Oscars
00:50for best International feature and best
00:52sound but only those three films won
00:55more than one Academy Award and overall
00:58the Oscars spread the love to 10
01:00different featurelength films in
01:02addition to the short films as far as
01:05multi- nominated movies that didn't win
01:07anything mro went 0 for S and killers of
01:10the flower Moon went 0 for 10 that's
01:12oneoff the all-time record of Oscar
01:14nominations without a win which is 11
01:16two movies currently share that record
01:18including Steven Spielberg's the color
01:20purple and the interesting thing about
01:21scr's recent films is that kills to the
01:23flower Moon went 0 for 10 four years ago
01:26back in 2020 the Irishman also went 0
01:29for 10 and then going backwards in his
01:31filmography silence went 0 for one and
01:33the Wolf of Wall Street went 0 for five
01:36which means that Martin scores these
01:37movies have gone 0 for 26 since the last
01:41win which was back in 2012 when Hugo won
01:44several Academy Awards so those are some
01:46basic Oscar stats let's talk about the
01:48show itself Jimmy Kimmel returned to
01:51host and I've actually liked his hosting
01:53jobs in previous years he's more of an
01:56MC he doesn't do a whole lot of
01:58elaborate bits this year was not much my
02:00favorite of his performances I just
02:01don't think that his material was
02:03particularly good the opening monologue
02:05felt obligatory if anything but it did
02:07have a few sharp Jabs especially when he
02:09brought up the fact that Greta Gerwig
02:11wasn't nominated for best director and
02:12that she should have been and everybody
02:14started clapping and he pointed out
02:15rightfully so that the people supporting
02:17what he said were also the ones who
02:19didn't nominate her for best director I
02:21know you're clapping but you're the ones
02:23who didn't vote for her by the way don't
02:25act like you had nothing to do with this
02:27I also like the moment where he brought
02:28the show's crew out on stage in case you
02:30don't know AI which is the union that
02:33governs most of the technical roles in
02:35Hollywood is currently undergoing their
02:37own contract negotiations and if they
02:39can't come to terms then we could be
02:41looking at another frankly disastrous
02:44work stoppage in Hollywood so hopefully
02:46that Union solidarity stays strong and
02:48the people backstage will continue to
02:50get that support from the people in
02:52front of the camera so Kimel did a few
02:54things I liked I thought that a lot of
02:56his jokes were average some of them were
02:58okay but there was one thing he did that
02:59I really didn't like which was a joke he
03:01made at the expense of Robert Downey Jr
03:04in reference to his previous drug
03:06problems this is the highest point of
03:09Robert Downey Jr's long and illustrious
03:11career well one of the highest
03:13points Robert has been
03:17a was that two on the nose or is that a
03:21made and listen I'm not clutching my
03:24pearls on behalf of Robert Downey Jr
03:26here often times these jokes are cleared
03:28ahead of time so that they know to have
03:30the camera in place so it's very likely
03:32and I've heard reports even perhaps
03:34confirming this that he knew that this
03:36joke was going to be made and that he
03:37okayed it but he really shouldn't have
03:39been put in that position because I just
03:41don't understand why Jimmy Kimmel as a
03:43comedian even needs to go there this is
03:46a huge moment in Robert Downey Jr's life
03:48and a huge moment in his career he
03:51rebuilt that career Brick by Brick
03:53helped to build the MCU through sheer
03:55Charisma and has been so open and
03:57seemingly honest about his process of
03:59recovery and his own flaws why do you
04:02even need to revisit that at this point
04:04it's not like nobody's ever made a
04:06Robert Downey Jr drug joke before why do
04:09you need to even open that box I just
04:11don't understand and it really didn't
04:13sit well with me and honestly given what
04:14we saw last night can we just have John
04:16meany come on and host the Academy
04:18Awards he had one of the better
04:19presenter bits where he just talked
04:21about what he liked about Field of
04:23Dreams or really just sort of recapped
04:24the plot which I thought was really
04:26funny in an absurdest kind of way cuz I
04:28guess there's a rule in ghost baseball
04:30that if you leave the field at any point
04:32to become an elderly ghost and do the
04:34heck maneuver you can't return to the
04:36field he also hosted the honorary Oscars
04:39that happened before the ceremony this
04:41year you can actually find his material
04:43on YouTube and I thought that he was
04:45really funny really fresh I like his
04:47sensibilities why doesn't he just host
04:49the Academy Awards get some new blood in
04:51there because it just didn't seem like
04:52Jimmy Kimmel was feeling it this year he
04:54kind of seemed like he was phoning it in
04:56because he's done it so many times if
04:58he's losing interest bring bring in
04:59somebody else and when we look at the
05:01production of the show overall I think
05:03that there were some odd decisions every
05:0510 years or so the academy tries out
05:08this experiment where instead of running
05:10clips of the nominated performances they
05:12bring out five different people to talk
05:15to each nominee and say why they're so
05:17great and it's usually past winners and
05:20sometimes that will generate some kind
05:22of cool moments we had a few of those
05:23last night for example I like the fact
05:25that Rita Moreno who did the song
05:27America and Westside Story was hand Ling
05:29the introduction of America Ferrera
05:35America I liked that Sam Rockwell
05:37dropped a very welcome Tropic Thunder
05:39reference when he was introducing Robert
05:44actors and then there are actors who
05:46don't drop character until the DVD
05:49commentary and I liked Nick Cage going
05:51full Nick Cage when he talked about Paul
05:53Gatti wearing a soft contact lens to get
05:55the lazy eye effect in the holdovers
05:58would I have done that hell yes but the
06:00point is you did do it Paul but what
06:03those moments all seem to have in common
06:05is that it seemed like those presenters
06:06had some sort of a personal connection
06:09with those particular nominees but that
06:11wasn't the case all the time sometimes
06:13you could tell they were obviously
06:14reading off a teleprompter it didn't
06:15really seem that heartfelt it seemed a
06:17bit awkward at moments like they never
06:19even really met each other and it does
06:21really slow the show down in addition to
06:24not providing any time to show actual
06:27clips of the work that's been nominated
06:29I know that there are a lot of people
06:30that are fans of this of bringing
06:31somebody out to talk to each nominee
06:33individual and honestly if you freed it
06:35from the constraints of having it be
06:36past winners and brought somebody who
06:38had a personal connection to each
06:40nominee then maybe it' work better but
06:42under this current system I really think
06:44it's an idea that should go away because
06:47it's just not executed properly and I
06:49think that the bad or the weird or the
06:51awkward outweighs the good maybe I'm in
06:53the minority on this but that's how I
06:54felt watching last night and then there
06:56was one other thing and this should be
06:57something that's just it should just be
06:59a gimme because it's a very simple
07:01concept the in memorium segment and
07:03somehow these award shows keep messing
07:06this up they keep trying to reinvent the
07:08wheel of what to do within memorium and
07:10so last night they were projecting the
07:12names and pictures of everybody on just
07:14about every background element that you
07:15could find but keeping the dancers and
07:18singers and musicians in the foreground
07:20that's not what this is all about that's
07:23not what the intention is if you want to
07:25have a live performance that's fine do
07:26what the Baptist did they had Hannah
07:28watting ham sing a beautiful song to do
07:31the inmemoriam segment but they would
07:32cut to her for 10 or 15 seconds and then
07:35they would resume full screen on camera
07:37the Run of people that they were
07:39remembering that's the way to do it but
07:41I shouldn't be looking ahead or looking
07:42forward at my screen going like what is
07:44where is it oh it's over there now oh
07:46it's over on the sides why is it all the
07:47way back there why is that dancer
07:49blocking somebody's name this is a very
07:51simple concept and an easy concept that
07:54shouldn't be that hard to figure out you
07:56roll the names of the people that were
07:57lost over the last year so that we can
07:59remember the ones that we loved and then
08:01gripe about the ones that they left off
08:03it's a tale as old as time and yet they
08:05just can't get it right I don't
08:07understand it one positive change that
08:09they did make and I want to give them
08:10some credit there is it was obvious that
08:12they talked to the winners about not
08:14reading off of a piece of paper and not
08:16just going into a Litany of agents and
08:18publicists Etc when they're giving their
08:20acceptance speeches that was part of my
08:22own personal thing when I gave my tips
08:24on how I would fix the Oscars so I'm
08:25going to give them credit for that and
08:26it largely worked even people that
08:28brought papers up there weren't doing
08:30the same old acceptance speech and they
08:32did feel more genuine and heartfelt so
08:35that was a good thing about the show and
08:36let's get to some of those winners the
08:39first win of the night went to dine Joy
08:41Randolph as expected with help getting
08:43to the stage from her co-star Paul GMAT
08:45that's great to see she was crying he
08:47was crying everybody was crying it was a
08:49moment of genuine emotion in celebration
08:52of one of the year's Great Performances
08:54that I think really got the night off to
08:56a great start as far as the awards go
08:58for so long long I've always wanted to
09:01be different and now I realize I just
09:05need to be myself best supporting actor
09:08went as expected to Robert Downey Jr it
09:10was basically a coronation at this point
09:12his speeches have been very
09:13self-effacing this award season and this
09:15one was no different I'd like to thank
09:22academy in that order it didn't deliver
09:26a capital M moment like some people
09:29but what a culmination this night must
09:31have been from 30 years ago when he was
09:33nominated for chaplain to today as he
09:36wins his first Academy Award I'm a fan
09:39of his work and I'm a fan of his outlook
09:41on life he just seems like somebody who
09:44has a very healthy sense of self and has
09:46gone through what a lot of people
09:48couldn't even imagine going through and
09:50come out a better person on the other
09:52side I do think it'll be interesting
09:54however as time goes on for the context
09:56of the ceremony to get lost when people
09:58are watching his acceptance speech on
09:59YouTube and wonder why they cut to an
10:01applauding dog right after he walks off
10:04stage with his Academy Award that's the
10:06dog from anatomy of a fall by the way I
10:08mean I've seen anatomy of a fall and
10:10that still caught me by surprise so yeah
10:11a lot of YouTube comment sections in
10:13five or six years are definitely going
10:14to be full of why is there a dog there
10:17best actor also wasn't a big surprise
10:19Killian Murphy's recent wins put him
10:20squarely in the favorite slot going into
10:23tonight and I was happy to see his work
10:25recognized after so many years of solid
10:27work where he's probably not even the
10:28first name you think of in all the
10:30different movies that he's in I think
10:32it's a great judgment on his past work
10:34but more so of course a recognition of
10:37his work in Oppenheimer this movie would
10:39not have worked without him and as much
10:41as I love Paul Gatti's performance if I
10:43were an Oscar voter I would have voted
10:45for Giamatti that is not to take
10:47anything away from Killian Murphy who
10:49was fantastic in Oppenheimer and I was
10:51very happy to see him win that Academy
10:54Award for Better or For Worse we're all
10:55living in oppenheimer's world so I would
10:57really like to dedicate this to the
10:58peace makers everywhere going be long
11:02and then we have the best actress race
11:03which I've been saying for a while was a
11:05coin toss I literally had no idea whose
11:08name they were going to read out when
11:10they opened that envelope and it looked
11:11like Emma Stone didn't either because
11:13she seemed genuinely surprised to win
11:16her second Academy Award for poor things
11:19oh boy this is really this is really
11:21overwhelming sorry I okay my voice is
11:24also a little gone whatever this race
11:26was so close and both performances were
11:28so good but I've already seen this
11:30narrative emerging some of it on social
11:32media some of it from the clickbait
11:34Articles because they've got to drive
11:35people to click on their sites saying
11:37that Lily Gladstone was robbed of an
11:39Academy Award that it's criminal that
11:41she didn't win this Oscar and from my
11:43point of view I definitely think it
11:45would have been great to see her win
11:47that Oscar but it's hard for me to look
11:49at Emma Stone's win and say that it was
11:51criminal or that Lily Gladstone was
11:53robbed because they both put in really
11:56really strong performances and I don't
11:58think that should get Lost In the Mix
11:59here this was such a competitive award
12:01season the entire way through for both
12:03of them and it may have just come down
12:05to the fact that Emma Stone was front
12:08and center for the vast majority of poor
12:10things whereas kills of the flower moon
12:13was a sprawling epic and Lily Gladstone
12:15was in less of that movie that doesn't
12:17make it a lesser performance it is a
12:19deep performance it is a Soulful
12:21performance it is full of pain and
12:23anguish and it's so well done but some
12:25voters may have given the nod to Emma
12:27Stone because she was more the focus of
12:29her own movie who knows why Oscar voters
12:32vote the way that they do there are lots
12:34of talented people working there are
12:36always great performances that are
12:37nominated and unless there's a tie only
12:39one of those performances can win I
12:41don't think that we should diminish the
12:42achievement that Emma Stone has because
12:44Lily Gladstone wasn't able to get it
12:46this time and I think the most important
12:48takeaway is to keep an eye on the
12:50industry and make sure that Lily
12:52Gladstone gets more opportunities to
12:54come back and win this Academy Award I
12:56don't want this to be the last time that
12:58we see l Gladstone at the Academy Awards
13:01because she proved this past year that
13:03she is more than worthy of being at that
13:06ceremony and winning an Oscar now
13:08obviously this show took place against
13:10the backdrop of instability around the
13:13world and that took center stage in a
13:14couple of the speeches one of them was
13:16from best documentary winner mlav
13:18chernov who was accepting for 20 days in
13:20marapole his Frontline documentary
13:23taking place in the early days of
13:25Russia's Invasion and his grief and
13:27anger about what was happening to his
13:29country was palpable it was a very
13:32powerful speech I wish I've
13:35never made this film we can make sure
13:38that the history record is set straight
13:41and that the truth will prevail War also
13:45took center stage in director Jonathan
13:47Glazer's speech excepting for the zone
13:49of interest when in the best
13:50International Film category all of
13:54dehumanization how do we resist and
13:56listen this is all heavy stuff but film
13:58often takes place against the backdrop
14:01of very consequential world events and I
14:04think it would have been weird if either
14:06of these two filmmakers had gone on
14:08stage and accepted without referring to
14:11the very things that their films were
14:13about and the reason I know it would
14:14have been weird if they would have done
14:15that is because the winners for the best
14:18animated short film which is called War
14:20is Over did accept the award for their
14:22film without even mentioning war or the
14:25concept of war or ending War even in
14:27passing and you know I've been upfront
14:30on my feelings about war is over in both
14:32the video where I picked the Oscars and
14:33where I reviewed every Oscar movie in a
14:36lot of ways it was my least favorite of
14:37the nominated shorts because I thought
14:39it was very shallow and I thought they
14:41went for an easy message that ultimately
14:43didn't amount to much or didn't amount
14:45to anything it was meant as a cheap
14:47sentimental tug on the heartstrings and
14:49the reason that I probably against my
14:50better judgment didn't pick it to win
14:52the Academy Award is because I thought
14:54that the academy voters would see
14:56through what I think was the cynical
14:59approach that this short film took but
15:01it looked like the voters were more
15:02willing to embrace the hollow of that
15:04film over the more challenging topics of
15:07some of the other nominees and make no
15:09mistake War is Over was an inside job
15:11based on music from one of the fraking
15:12Beatles and backed by Peter Jackson and
15:15WETA and if you saw the movie and you
15:17liked it or it spoke to you then you
15:19know we just disagree and maybe I'm just
15:21a lot more cynical about the film than a
15:23lot of other people but it just seemed
15:25like such a try hard cheap shot to try
15:27to get an Oscar and I think the reason
15:29I'm so pressed about it winning is that
15:31obviously it worked and I guess the
15:33reason that I'm doubly upset about it is
15:35that even in Victory the filmmakers
15:37behind this film seemed completely
15:39uninterested in addressing the theme of
15:42their movie the entirety of what it's
15:44about and we're much more interested in
15:46Wishing Yoko Ono a Happy Mother's Day so
15:48could everyone please say Happy Mother's
15:50Day Yoko happy Mother's Day yo I don't
15:53know it just bothered me if you're going
15:55to make a movie called War is Over And
15:57there are numerous Wars destructive
16:00conflicts happening currently around the
16:02world and you don't even pay that lip
16:04service it already makes what I thought
16:06was a pretty cynical Act of film making
16:08seemed that much more cynical and much
16:11like Jimmy Kimmel's jokes about Robert
16:12Downey Jr it rubbed me the wrong way
16:15however I will say while we're on the
16:17subject of the shorts category that I
16:20was very happy to see the winner of the
16:22best documentary short was a movie
16:24called The L Repair Shop which by the
16:26way is free right now on YouTube you can
16:29just search the last repair shop and it
16:30should be the first thing that pops up
16:32it is absolutely worth your time it's
16:34about 40 minutes skip that episode of
16:36whatever you're going to watch on
16:37Netflix and watch this one instead it's
16:39about employees in the LA Public School
16:41System who repair the instruments that
16:42are provided to kids so that they can
16:44have a music education and it was so
16:46great to see it win I love the
16:48acceptance speech I love that they
16:49brought one of the kids up on stage the
16:51last repair shop winning redeemed the
16:53Oscar voters in my eyes a little bit for
16:55giving the Oscar to Wars over but I'm
16:57going to have to really work hard hard
16:58to get over that one music education
17:00isn't just about creating uh incredible
17:02musicians it's about creating incredible
17:04humans there's a lot more of the Oscars
17:06to break down but before we do I want to
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18:22some of the heavy stuff let's talk about
18:24some of the lighter moments of the
18:25evening and a lot of the comedy wasn't
18:27even provided by Jimmy kemel but by the
18:29people that were presenting the awards
18:31exhibit a would be Ryan Gosling and
18:34Emily Blunt who were starring together
18:35in the Fall Guy this summer playing up
18:38the whole barbin Heimer Feud of 2023
18:40happy that we can finally uh put this
18:42barbin Heimer rivalry behind us and the
18:45way this award season turned out wasn't
18:47that much of a rivalry so just let it go
18:51also after the comedy bit they
18:52introduced this video that was talking
18:54about stunt performers and how important
18:56they are to the history and the tap
18:58indry of film and I was so convinced
19:01that this video was going to culminate
19:03in a surprise announcement on the Oscar
19:06telecast that next year they're going to
19:08start giving an Academy Award out to
19:10stunt performers like they're doing with
19:12casting directors starting next year and
19:14I was like what a great idea you hold
19:16back an announcement of a new category
19:18for stunt performers which so many
19:20people have wanted for so long and then
19:22you announce it on the air at the Oscars
19:25people are going to go crazy social
19:26media is going to blow up but no it was
19:28just a video of being like hey stunt
19:29performers you know you're awesome
19:31people and good job yeah I don't know I
19:34it's kind of a let down I mean I guess
19:35it's nice to get that pat on the back
19:36but you know the Oscar category would
19:39have been a lot nicer Danny DeVito and
19:41Arnold Schwarzenegger also had a twins
19:43reunion but I actually liked their bit
19:45comparing notes about the fact that they
19:48both face down and were defeated by
19:50Batman that was funny but the thing that
19:52really kicked it in the stratosphere was
19:54when Michael Keaton decided to play
19:56along and let me tell you I mean I know
19:58that he was in The Flash last year but
20:00that guy still has the Batman face there
20:04here he's right look you have a lot of
20:08nerve to show your face around you you
20:10know I mentioned John meany in his bit
20:11about Field of Dreams which is really
20:13funny but he also gave us what I think
20:14was the only onstage acknowledgement of
20:16Madam web when he was talking about
20:18lines that would never have been caught
20:20if not for the sound people of Hollywood
20:22you're going to need a bigger boat I'll
20:24have what she's having and he was in the
20:26Amazon with my mother when she was rear
20:28searching spiders just before she died
20:30there was also a funny bit with Kate
20:31McKinnon in America Ferrera where she
20:33learns that Jurassic Park isn't a
20:35documentary Kate the dinosaurs weren't
20:37real oh America not you two no and also
20:42that she's apparently been sexting
20:43Steven Spielberg to whom have I been
20:50nudes but it wasn't just the presenters
20:52the nominees and winners themselves also
20:55provided a lot of the night's best
20:56moments I love the fact that the zone of
20:59Interest won in the sound category the
21:01sound workor in Oppenheimer don't get me
21:03wrong was absolutely masterful but the
21:05soundwork in the zone of Interest was
21:08crucial to that movie succeeding it
21:10provided so much of the dread in that
21:13film and so many times it seems like
21:15just about every year the Academy Award
21:17for best sound is pretty much given to
21:19the loudest movie to the movie that has
21:21the most sound so for the Oscar voters
21:23to understand the critical role that the
21:26sound and zone of Interest had Beyond
21:28just the volume was a really encouraging
21:30sign that perhaps we'll see a little bit
21:32more of a thoughtful process when it
21:34comes to picking this winner in the
21:35future the boy in the Heron which was
21:37the upset pick to beat Spider-Man across
21:39the spiderverse for best animated
21:40feature also actually pulled off the
21:42upset also only the second time that a
21:45traditionally hand animated film has won
21:48the Academy Award for best animated
21:50feature the other film was also by
21:52hayami isaki it was Spirited Away which
21:54won the second ever Oscar for best
21:56animated film over 20 years ago if this
21:59is miyazaki's last film I love that he
22:01went on on top that he was able to get
22:03that Academy Award and I love Spider-Man
22:05across the spiderverse it was my
22:06personal pick to win the award but I'm
22:09also glad to see a movie as beautiful as
22:12the boy and the Heron take the award
22:14home I thought that it was a bit too
22:15esoteric and maybe abstract for a lot of
22:18Voters but it appears that it won over
22:19enough voters to be able to take home
22:21that Oscar it was a great night for
22:23Japan because Godzilla minus one also
22:25pulled out the win for best visual
22:28effects while not completely unexpected
22:30it's still very much an Underdog Story
22:32that likely would not have happened had
22:34Dune part two actually come out last
22:37year I think that it would have won the
22:38Oscar for best visual effects but
22:40because it was delayed to this year that
22:42opened the door for Godzilla minus one
22:44and what a great speech you could tell
22:45that everybody was so happy and I was
22:47happy for the movie itself it really was
22:49an Underdog Story and I love that a
22:52small visual effects team was able to go
22:54up against all these big studios and
22:56when you look at that competition godz
22:58minus one was up against Guardians of
22:59the Galaxy volume 3 the MCU is now 0 for
23:0214 in the best visual effects category
23:05at the Oscars it is by far the most
23:08nominated franchise without a win I
23:10think the next one down is the Batman
23:12franchise with like three nominations
23:14and with these awards for animation and
23:16visual effects going to Japanese artists
23:18at the Academy Awards I hope that this
23:20puts an even bigger Spotlight on the
23:22industry in Japan and not only a
23:24spotlight for recognition but also
23:27compensation for the animators and
23:29effects artists that are over there
23:30making some truly great stuff and to top
23:33the excitement of Godzilla minus one
23:35winning it was the first time a Godzilla
23:36movie had been nominated the first time
23:38a Godzilla movie had ever won an Oscar
23:40you also got to hear the Oscar Orchestra
23:43play the Godzilla theme as the team took
23:52stage and as great as that was it was
23:54actually my second favorite Oscar
23:56Orchestra moment of the night my
23:58favorite was actually the rendition of
24:0050 cents PM that they played as Justin
24:02Trier and Arthur Harari walked up to
24:05take the Oscar for best original
24:06screenplay for anatomy of a
24:14fall that version of PPP that you hear
24:16in the movie is actually a cover from a
24:18band called the BAU Rhythm and steel
24:20band and you can find that version on
24:22YouTube right now if you're going to do
24:24you know some home renovations anytime
24:26in the future just really Crank that
24:28music up but all of these fun moments
24:30pale in comparison to what I think was
24:32easily the highlight of the night as far
24:34as energy and fun and that is of course
24:37Ryan Gosling's performance of the Oscar
24:39nominated song I'm just Ken this is how
24:42you perform a nominated song at the
24:44Oscars that dares to be fun I love that
24:47the other kins from the movie including
24:49Kingsley benadir and simu Leu came back
24:52and took part in the number even though
24:53they weren't necessarily featured I
24:55loved the buzzle Berkeley homage the
24:57Marilyn Monroe omage getting slash out
24:59to play guitar getting the audience
25:01involved this was one of the best
25:03performances of a song that I've seen at
25:05the Academy Awards in a very long time
25:08of course almost immediately after this
25:10huge performance that brought the house
25:11down they then gave the actual Academy
25:13Award to the much more traditional
25:15serious and depressing song instead of
25:17I'm just Ken this is nothing new for the
25:19Oscars this happens all the time the fun
25:22songs get nominated the slower songs
25:24actually win with a few Exceptions there
25:26was so much hype in anticipation around
25:28this performance that I was worried it
25:30was going to be a bar that nobody could
25:31clear but it was the commitment to the
25:34bit that made it Ryan Gosling was 110%
25:37in the choreography the scale of it the
25:40imagination behind it they didn't want
25:42to do it just to do it it didn't feel
25:43like we don't talk about Bruno a few
25:45years ago where they're like H we should
25:46put it in the show but it didn't really
25:48come off very well it was obvious that
25:50they approached this as okay people are
25:53looking forward to this performance
25:54we're GNA give them the best version of
25:56I'm just Ken that we can possibly
25:59imagine and it showed sure the song
26:01didn't win the Oscar but I think that
26:02this is going to be one of those Oscar
26:03moments that people remember for a very
26:06long time and it was such an exciting
26:08performance that it completely
26:09overshadowed the other performances
26:11including the fire inside which I'm
26:13pretty sure is the first onstage
26:15performance of a song inspired by a
26:18snack the best original song Oscar for
26:20what was I made for was Barbie's only
26:22Oscar win and I was actually kind of
26:23surprised by that poor things had a
26:26little chunk in the middle of the show
26:27where they ran the best production
26:29design best hair and makeup and best
26:31costume design categories and in
26:32production design and costume design I
26:35thought that one of those two might go
26:37to Barbie especially production design
26:39but it just wasn't in the cards they
26:41really wanted to recognize poor things
26:43and so Barbie walks away with just one
26:45Oscar even though it will always be a
26:47much bigger part of the film
26:48conversation for 2023 as for some
26:51miscellaneous categories I was looking
26:52forward to seeing Wes Anderson win his
26:54first Oscar for his short film The
26:56Wonderful story of Henry sugar which he
26:58did but he was not at the ceremony to
27:01accept so bit of an Anthony Hopkins
27:03situation there and an anticlimax still
27:05though I'm happy that he won Corey
27:07Jefferson was there to accept the best
27:09adapted screenplay award and gave maybe
27:12my favorite acceptance speech of the
27:14night about the fact that Studios try to
27:16play it safe by making $200 million
27:18movies but those movies aren't exactly
27:20the safe bets that they used to be and
27:22why not invest that same amount of money
27:25in a larger number of untested untried
27:28voices that could be the future of film
27:29making I understand that this is a risk
27:31averse industry I get it um but it $200
27:34million movies are also a risk and
27:36instead of making one $200 million movie
27:38try making 20 $10 million movies or or I
27:42was also happy that hoent hoima won and
27:44advocated for shooting movies on film to
27:47all as aspiring filmmakers out there I
27:49would like to say please try shooting
27:52that incredible new hip thing called
27:54Celluloid and as a cinematographer hoan
27:57ho actually has a pretty incredible
27:59resume these are just some of the movies
28:01that he shot 2008's Let the Right One In
28:03Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy her
28:05Interstellar Dunkirk tennet nope Ad
28:09Astra and then of course Oppenheimer
28:11it's about time that he gets recognized
28:12and honestly I think he's been
28:14criminally under nominated over the
28:16years for example I think that he should
28:17have been nominated for his work on nope
28:19all of these winners led us to the end
28:21of the night and two of the biggest
28:22Awards one of them of course was best
28:24director and after years of making epic
28:27big screen films and building a very
28:29passionate fan base Christopher Nolan
28:31finally took home his first Oscar for
28:33best director presented by stepen
28:35Spielberg no less and given the scale
28:37that Nolan is working at and the scale
28:39that Spielberg worked at in his prime
28:41and the fact that they are both so
28:43devoted to the preservation of film and
28:45the theatrical experience the handing
28:47off of that Oscar really almost felt
28:49like a passing of the torch like
28:50Spielberg was saying okay you're now the
28:53custodian of this great legacy of Cinema
28:55or one of them and this is your your
28:57time now this isn't the End of the Road
28:59show us what you can do because you now
29:01occupy this space in the history of film
29:04and it seems like a concept that Nolan
29:06himself acknowledged in his speech we
29:08don't know where this incredible journey
29:10is going from here but to know that you
29:13think that I'm a meaningful part of it
29:15means the world to me then we had the
29:17last award of the night best picture
29:18presented by alpacino to celebrate 50
29:21years since the Godfather Part Two and
29:23alpacino presented this award with what
29:25I can only call Tipsy uncle giving a
29:27speech at your wedding energy this is
29:29the time uh for the last award of the
29:33evening I love alpacino and I think that
29:35he was out there having a good time
29:37which is great but you have to
29:38understand the situation that you're in
29:40Emma Stone just one best actress now the
29:43last time that we were in this situation
29:45when they opened up the best picture
29:46envelope they said the wrong name so
29:49when you were going out there to present
29:50best picture and you open the envelope I
29:53think you have to say that name with a
29:54lot of confidence like you know exactly
29:57what that movie is instead Pacino
30:00announced the Best Picture Winner as if
30:01he was like taking an eye examination
30:03like he wasn't quite sure what the card
30:05read and my eyes see
30:10Oppenheimer yes and I think you could
30:12feel that hesitation in the crowd there
30:14was a beat where everybody was just like
30:16okay but is it Oppenheimer and then
30:18everybody realized that it was and they
30:20went up and they accepted the award
30:22regardless Oppenheimer won and becomes
30:23the highest grossing movie to win best
30:25picture since the Return of the King won
30:27back in 2004 20 years ago and with that
30:30the Show wrapped up although I don't
30:31know if you saw it the last image was
30:34the dog from anatomy of a fall which is
30:35an exceptionally well-trained dog
30:37lifting its leg on Matt Damon star on
30:39the Hollywood Walk of Fame what a great
30:41resurrection of that bit from Jimmy
30:43kemel maybe his best joke of the night
30:44overall I thought that this was a fine
30:46show punctuated by humor that didn't
30:48come from Jimmy kemel but came from a
30:50lot of the other people that were
30:51involved in the show and I think that
30:53really what you're going to remember are
30:55the winners and their speeches there a
30:57lot of firsttime winners this year
30:58Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas Robert
31:01Downey Jr Davon Joy Randolph Killian
31:03Murphy Wes Anderson the United Kingdom
31:05Godzilla amongst others so I I wouldn't
31:08necessarily say that it was a bad Oscar
31:10show I just think in some places where
31:12they have excelled in the past
31:13particularly regarding the host it was a
31:16little bit of a let down that was really
31:18saved by a very charismatic slate of
31:20winners and movies that people seem to
31:22actually like overall when you look at
31:24my personal Oscar picks I went 16 for 23
31:28which I guess is an okay number it's a
31:29little bit lower than where I would like
31:31to be by comparison gold Derby's
31:34predictions were 17 out of 23 and I
31:36actually was one up on the predictions
31:38that were made from the awards gurus
31:40over at TH and variety that's not to say
31:43by the way that I'm any kind of awards
31:44expert I don't think that anybody
31:46honestly should call them an awards
31:47expert I think that these things are so
31:50inherently unpredictable and you can
31:52certainly pay attention to award season
31:54and I cover it here on the channel but
31:55you never really know what these voters
31:57are going to do and it is sort of
31:59unknowable at the end of the day it's
32:01just a guess it's sort of like saying
32:03you're a fantasy football expert well I
32:05can look at the stats and tell you what
32:06a player might do or is likely to do but
32:09I can never actually tell you what
32:11they're going to do out there on the
32:13field on Sunday but that
32:14unpredictability can be a great thing
32:16and me going 16 of 23 in my picks meant
32:18that I was surprised by a lot of the
32:20winners I think the other great thing
32:22about 10 different movies taking home
32:23Oscars is that if you haven't seen any
32:25of them you now have 10 great
32:27recommendations for movies to watch and
32:29I would encourage you to watch
32:31especially the ones that won but there
32:32are a lot of great nominees as well what
32:35do you think did your favorites win last
32:37night what award were you the most
32:38excited about let me know down in the
32:40comments below and please stay tuned
32:42right here on the channel of course I'll
32:43have charts with Dan tomorrow to look at
32:45the box office of Dune part two perhaps
32:48a winner next year as well as Kung Fu
32:50Panda 4 and some of the other movies
32:52that open this past weekend and of
32:53course I'll still be doing movie reviews
32:55and news and all the stuff that we like
32:57to do here thanks so much for tuning in
32:59to this recap of the Academy Awards
33:01until next time stay safe and I'll see
