This was mentioned a few years ago. Sheen even sued the National Enquirer over it.

The Help

Winners (6):
Emma Stone
Viola Davis
Octavia Spencer
Allison Janney
Sissy Spacek
Mary Steenburgen

Nominees (2)
Jessica Chastain
Cicely Tyson

For those of you mentioning F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, that was his only Oscar nomination.

I love love love Save the Best for Last, and kd lang gave a great performance on Constant Craving, but Vanessa had no shot. kd had the song and the narrative that was more old Grammy voter friendly, too bad for Vanessa. Plus kd was a former Grammy winner, moving to pop, album of the year nod, and was everywhere with her coming out story. I do…[Read more]

1. I am in the minority that I hated Marriage Story. People say “Oh you didn’t like it?” I say “It’s not that I didn’t like it, it’s that I hated it.” So there’s that.

2. I adore Laura Dern. I think she’s a wonderful actress who was fantastic in Rambling Rose, so touching in Wild, and so fierce and fantastic in the little remembered HBO movie…[Read more]

I think the original poster was correct, just made it sound like the hiatus ended with Judy, not that Judy was the strongest part after the hiatus. But while she may have been working steadily, they weren’t in big projects. I hope Renee does get some bigger roles again. I still love her most in Nurse Betty. That was a role that could have gone…[Read more]

Michelle Pfeiffer: Geena Davis, Jessica Tandy, Emma Thompson

Sigourney Weaver: Marlee Matlin, Jodie Foster, Geena Davis

Peter O’Toole: Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker

Albert Finney: Sidney Poitier, Art Carney, Robert Duvall, F. Murray Abraham, Benicio del Toro

I think the vast majority of winners will remain American/British/English language. Most films in the US (home of AMPAS) are English language, so I believe foreign language film wins will be the exception not the norm. It’s not bad/wrong. I mean when Kristen Stewart won her Cesar, it was the first fully non-French speaking role to win BSA there.…[Read more]

I agree with that. The things that some folks love about the big budget spectacle movies is the thing I don’t like. Is it wrong that others like those? Absolutely not. It’s called an opinion. Some of the big budget stuff I like, some I didn’t. But the trend lately with the Academy is how the visual effects were interwoven with the story. Was it…[Read more]

USA Today Oscar Musical Performance Rankings

I have to say I disagree with a lot of these. I didn’t like Billie Eilish’s performance at all. It was way too staid and pitched WAY too low for her. It makes me wish they had just played a pre-recorded version. That would have sounded great and they could have muted the audience and lose the awful…[Read more]

You pitched this too low. Stop, go back to your seat, and someone call and find Adele to do this right. That was, not good.

Brie Sigourney and Gal. That’s a great trio! Brie’s win is one of my absolute favorite wins of the past 10 years.

OK, I love Sandra Oh. But, she hasn’t made a wide release film since Tammy in 2014. So why did they choose her to hand out an Oscar I wonder? More diversity? Why not choose nominee (ok should have been nominee) Awkafina.

Great song, great performance, but that dress. Chris Tucker wore it better in The Fifth Element.

Have we had any Renee reaction shots tonight?

It’s cute that Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell got a little comedy bit since their new movie is getting bad reviews.

He rapped his name but I didn’t catch it. So, who is that again?

Well, at least Chrissy’s performance wasn’t the only one not introduced. I think it seems odd to have them without an introduction, especially when you had Anthony Ramos introduce Lin-Manuel Miranda who introduced a clip package. Weird.

Glad I wasn’t the only one to remember that fact. This is the first time Lose Yourself was performed on the Oscar stage. I was actually afraid for a moment that Billie Eilish was gonna perform it haha

In my mind, Laura Dern won for Little Women because I hated Marriage Story and I think her performance was nothing in it, but I do love her work overall.