The Oscars

Eight years after #OscarsSoWhite movement the Academy took steps toward racial and cultural diversity in its structure. Today however we continue to debate on exclusion, which I think stems from selected overrate and selected overlook.

Award winners Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh are undeniably good actors but what about Cate Blanchett or Austin Butler and the movies like Tar and Elvis? The little multiverse mudder Everything Everywhere All At Once is a mediocre film lacking a heart to relate. Academy maybe demonstrated its stance for diversity but also overlooked the artistic merits as sole benchmark for awards.

My personal awards this year go to Tar, Elvis and Belgium film Close.

The winners weren't just exciting. Everything Everywhere All at Once earned the sweep! Brendan Fraser earned this comeback award.

But this was also a solid ceremony. The jokes weren't terrible and most of them actually landed with me.

I just want less comedy and banter between presenters to give more time for speeches. It's so frustrating. We don't need every presenter to have banter with another person.

RRR winning song was one of the best wins of the night.

Only wins I was disappointed with were All Quiet winning production design and score. Even those I know who weren't fans of Babylon thought those elements were deserving.

But this was actually a very good ceremony.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with this years Oscar's.

. . . is only a presenter, and NOT a nominee, after his star turn as "Keith Gill" in DUMB MONEY. I think this awards "snub" can be attributed to P. D.'s lack of conditioning, and by inference, lukewarm commitment to this role. In Real Life, Keith ran a 4:03 mile. Having personally witnessed workouts by a 3:57 four-lap dude, as well as another racer who clocked a 1:50 half in high school, I was NOT impressed or convinced by DUMB MONEY's frequent--failed--attempts to portray Keith doing interval training on his local track. My 3:57 one-time teammate would push himself through three laps under three minutes during workouts. Then, after a 60-second break, he would see how much faster than one minute he could run a fourth lap. Mr. 1:50 would run sets of a dozen training quarters, during which a younger teammate would race him all-out the final 220. None of this comes through during DUMB MONEY's scenes at the track. This is where Paul falls far short of RAGING BULL.

You wasted so much time on Jimmy Kimmel being painfully unfunny. He has the LEAST amount of charisma as any Oscar host ever. His jokes are nothing but references to Oscar movies with no substance or comedic timing. Why the hell has he been invited back so many times. The show worked SO well without a host at all. Every time Jimmy Kimmel goes on stage, the pacing of the show grinds to a screeching halt.

You wasted so much time with a bunch of stupid skits that nobody wanted. "Wow look it's Jimmy Kimmel in a popular movie. How original. It's not like I've seen that exact same joke in every mediocre Oscar year".

You wasted SO MUCH TIME on random montages. This one is really bizarre. Because the films included in the montages are from completely different years, completely different genres, and most of them are Disney owned properties. This adds nothing to the Oscars, it's clearly just completely unnecessary padding.

You wasted all of this time, and you STILL cut off half of the acceptance speeches.

And on top of all that, you made a joke about cutting off the visual effects artists. Even though they fix Hollywood's broken movies, get paid pennies, and often go out of business for doing so.

The Oscars is a joke and nobody cares. Just shorten the damn thing. Give out every award. Cut out the hosts. Make the Oscars a celebration of art, rather than a 3 hour long Hollywood circle jerk.

Haven't missed an "Oscars" telecast in many years and I must say the "95th" Academy Awards went off without a slap and Jimmy Kimmel was very funny and super as the host! True to form the show ran over and a little long the music with Lady Gaga and the moving memorial tribute by Lenny Kravitz was moving and touching. Plus the funny "Cocaine Bear" skit had you asking yourself did director and actress Elizabeth Banks trip over the bear!? Finally after many years of work Jamie Lee Curtis(my favorite scream queen 1978's "Halloween") won an Oscar a surprise for best supporting actress, yet she deserved one finally as she was respected by her peers and she gave an emotional and moving speech even thanking late acting parents legends Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis! Jamie you all won together! And then Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh win respectively for best supporting actor and best actress as both finally got their due proving that comebacks are possible and that they were not past their primes. And you guessed it "Everything, Everywhere, all at Once" wins best picture as the imaginative, transformation, dimensional, film mixed with comedy and action wrapped all in love and in the moment was to much for the academy to ignore(7 total wins for the film). In a surprise somewhat upset win it in a comeback for Brendan Fraser as he upset Austin Butler for best actor as voters went with an overweight shut in man struggling with connection over legendary Elvis, I myself liked Austin and the "Elvis" performance better, yet Fraser had a character that showed courage, and will power so it's okay that Brendan won best actor. Overall good well done show as the third time was a charm for Jimmy and it was nice to see Hollywood honor the winners who all had come backs.