In case you missed the Oscars last night. Here are the speeches from Hollywood’s biggest night.
Patricia Arquette won Best Supporting Actress. Her speech about equality led to a standing ovation:
http://youtu.be/XbrMKmlPFmo
Julianne Moore picked up the Oscar for Best Actress.
Eddie Redmanye took home the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything
The Producers and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu Birdman accepting Best Picture:
J.K Simmons won Best Supporting Actor for Whiplash and told everyone to call their parents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7qWaNA_KvI
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu won the Best Director for Birdman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKNWLlmUks
Common and John Legend took home the Oscar for Best Original Song for Glory from Selma.
Their speech talked about incarceration and equality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn4aWMnDoaI
I don’t think critics are ready any time soon to forgive the Academy. Interesting article in Forbes about Linklater’s long collaboration with Sandra Adair.
It starts out:
There’s never been a feature film like it. Twelve years in the making, it has an ambition unique in cinema and hard to wrap your head around. Director Richard Linklater‘s acclaimed Boyhood is one of the great film accomplishments of 2014 and of 21st Century cinema. Those who underestimate its artistry, its narrative importance, and its impact do so at their own intellectual risk. It boldly declares the greatest stories are the lives of real people, and the greatest characters are ordinary people trying to find their way in life. Here is a film that cares so much about its characters’ lives, it is content to let that be its sole reason for existing. There is more life, character, and humanity in this quiet film than you’ll find in most all of the other films released in a given year combined.
Goodfellas, Sideways , the Social Network . Boyhood welcome to the club.
Roberto from Italy, the Oyelowo bit I’m referring to is when he went to him in the audience. He called attention to the fact that he was overlooked for a nomination (embarrassing for Oyelowo, imo), insinuating and calling to mind the lack of diversity at the Oscars as well as in Hollywood, right before making Oyelowo tell his bad joke (under the guise of British people being able to make jokes land better simply because of their accent) about how Annie flopped. Annie, the film that, you know, re-cast traditionally white characters with black actors.
EXTREMELY off in so many ways.
After rewatching the show on fast forward I have noticed one thing. They used very little footage of actual movies while presenting the nominees or showing some shots of the movie that won (while the winner was walking towards the stage). Production Design, Costumes, Make-up, Visual Effects, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Screenply, Animated Film, Director and Picture. In all of these categories the nominees were introduced with single slate motion graphics that mostly relied on still images or trailer footage at best. Some of them were nice (Production Design, Sound Editing), but I had this weird feeling that they were low on cash when it comes to buying the rights to the footage. And presenting visual effects nominees with five grayscale still slates was very unsatisfying – it’s always nice to see at least few seconds of unrendered footage, some before and after shots, some breakdowns what was Live Action and what was CGI. It’s always thrilling to get just a glimpse of how these things are made. They had this at the BAFTAs, I can’t see why they didn’t have it here. Tight budget?
I thought the opening (“Moving Pictures”) was brilliant and overall the hosting was “above average” (JKSimmons tm). But I like bold hosting that steps on many toes distastefully.
why are the Oscars so hard to see after the fact? i had to work and don’t have DVR or cable.. there is NOTHING but crap snippets on YouTube. at one time someone would post the whole show there in HD. no more. the Academy must rule over their show with an iron fist. but why? they don’t even offer it to see on abc.com or comcast.net and they don’t offer pay per view. hell, i’d pay. will the Academy budge a bit? oh, and as far as the show? it seems they could import the writers from the Tony’s. case solved. the Tony’s are always well rehearsed, clever, on-time and entertaining.
Best speeches easily Common/Legend’s and Graham Moore’s.
I thought his hosting was second only to ellen in terms of hosts of the past 8 years…
Neil Patrick Harris was terrible in lots of ways.
Pawlikowski gave the best speech, and #2 goes to Common. Arquette and Redmayne were good as well. Lady Gaga was awesome.
The movies were bad this year. The Academy didn’t have many choices to rally around. Boyhood / Birdman– neither are masterpieces, sorry. Neither is Selma. “We Are the Best!” is better than all of them.
Thank you for everything this year Sasha and Ryan, and the others! It was a dull year for the movies themselves, but AwardsDaily is great as always!
“He trivialised everything Patricia Arquette said” Um, Paddy, isn’t that what you’re doing? His jokes were a hellova lot better than Seth McFarlane’s dismal performance, and even Billy Crystal’s last attempt was worse than Harris’ His jokes at least made people think and not just stand there smiling and clapping like idiots.
Most insulting of all for me was NPH’s Meryl Streep gag. He mocked her support for gender equality by insinuating that she either mustn’t or shouldn’t care about other women cos, hey, she’s rich!
He trivialised everything Patricia Arquette said and everything that feminism represents in that one stupid line, part of a stupid payoff to a stupid running gag that’s already legendary for its failure.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu yapping on about ego made me wonder if he’d actually seen Birdman himself. Or even had any part in its production. The Academy seems to think he did, tho. They gave him three fucking Oscars in one night. He beat Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater to all three. Makes me wanna be fucking ill.
Once again, fuck the Oscars.
Can you explain the joke he made with Oyelowo? Because I didn’t get it the first time.
Is this the thread where we bring up how truly AWFUL Harris was as a host? I can’t stop thinking about the many in-poor-taste jokes he attempted, but am glad they all fell as flat as the ones in-better-taste did. The editing didn’t help him any, considering every time one of his jokes didn’t work they cut to a not-laughing person in the audience.
The Oyelowo stuff and the off-the-cuff jab at the Crisis Hotline woman’s dress stand out as truly bad, bad, bad bits.
Bring in a new host!so many of his jokes failed so badly. His mispronounced of Oyelowo got annoying. I’d rate him 1/10
I wish someone would post full videos. I always like to see which clips they chose as well.
Is there a link for the Patricia Arquette speech that doesnt have the annoying girl? I’d rather just hear the speech
New link inserted
Chayefsky must have had a ball with these last night
I did groan when Inarritu started lecturing about Ego. The word “irony” doesn’t even begin to cover what he said.
@The Dude
Actually it’s Pawlikowski, but I agree that it was one of the few (if not the only) genuine and honest speeches of the night.
Best speech of the night was Pawel Pawloski, hands down.
I’m pretty sure Redmayne said “Fuck” right after kissing his wife.