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[SJRB]

I see there were no long winded climate speeches... guess they are bored of that cause now.

No audience to circle-jerk with.

 

[FunkMiller]

 

[Kenpachii]

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Nomadland was pretty good I thought.

Tenet, meh.

 

[Prison Mike]

Two distant strangers was good

 

[Fox Mulder]

Straight up not saw a single one of them

In a year of streaming everything, I haven’t even heard of any of these.

 

[OneBigPuss]

Another Round with Mads Mikkelsen is really good.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Wait, people on social media are mad because Chadwick Boseman didn't receive an Oscar? I mean come on, it's not like with Heath Ledger who actually had a memorable last role in an incredibly good film.

 

[mcjmetroid]

is it only on AppleTV+ or whatever?

Watch Wolfwalkers - Movie - Apple TV+

Watch the Oscar®-nominated animated film Wolfwalkers, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart starring Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, and Sean Bean.

tv.apple.com

Yep seems like it.

It feels like an anime style film.

Consdiering it's rottentomatoes score as well It's a joke it lost to the lackluster Soul

Wolfwalkers | Rotten Tomatoes

In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to...

www.rottentomatoes.com

 

[RJMacready73]

Didn't even know this was on lol and who the fuck watches this shit anyways... O look a multi millionaire pampered cunt is handling out an award to another multi millionaire pampered cunt who thinks he's won the fucking noble peace prize.. go make a fucking difference to humanity and maybe then I'll be interested in your new mantle piece ornament

 

[teezzy]

I've been meaning to watch Nomadland and The Sound of Metal

Need to get on that. Haven't really paid attention to movies this past year or so.

 

[teezzy]

Tom Hanks looks so worried Ricky is going to bring up his retard of a son. Always makes me laugh even harder

Killer set from Gervais, as per usual

 

[Fbh]

Was curious and searched the ratings.
Seems like they are not out yet, but there's like 20 articles already making tons of excuses about why they expect the rating to fall and why "that's ok".

Didn't even know this was on lol and who the fuck watches this shit anyways... O look a multi millionaire pampered cunt is handling out an award to another multi millionaire pampered cunt who thinks he's won the fucking noble peace prize.. go make a fucking difference to humanity and maybe then I'll be interested in your new mantle piece ornament

At least it was more fun some 10-15 years ago when it didn't feel like half the show is millionaires lecturing you

 

[Fox Mulder]

Didn't even know this was on lol and who the fuck watches this shit anyways... O look a multi millionaire pampered cunt is handling out an award to another multi millionaire pampered cunt who thinks he's won the fucking noble peace prize.. go make a fucking difference to humanity and maybe then I'll be interested in your new mantle piece ornament

I bet you’ve never even flown on your own private jet to give a speech at the UN about third world war crimes or some shit.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Ratings for it tanked. Down 50 percent over last year which was down from the year before.

 

[kruis]

Ratings for it tanked. Down 50 percent over last year which was down from the year before.

It's only going to get worse if the Oscars remain a celebration of woke politics instead of the art of movies. I used to watch every year, but I'm sick and tired of how politicized it has become.

 

[Fox Mulder]

It's only going to get worse if the Oscars remain a celebration of woke politics instead of the art of movies. I used to watch every year, but I'm sick and tired of how politicized it has become.

It’s only ever going to go down. The plebs don’t watch this shit and instead sign up to Netflix and Disney+ by the millions to watch popular blockbuster stuff or movie quality tv shows.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

In delayed fast national results just released by Nielsen, the 93rd Academy Awards were watched by a mere 9.85 million, with a dismal rating of 1.9 among the 18-49 demographic.

Get absolutely fucked. For comparison, in good years they had 50+ million viewers. Not anymore. Hollywood as an institution is almost dead.

 

[NickFire]

It’s only ever going to go down. The plebs don’t watch this shit and instead sign up to Netflix and Disney+ by the millions to watch popular blockbuster stuff or movie quality tv shows.

I think it has less to do with Netflix (etc), and more to do with how insufferably predictable these shows have become. I don't even need to watch to know what happened:

1) things I probably never heard of won awards; and
2) the people on stage put on performance art related to a particular topic.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I actively looked for articles that had any balls to speculate why the ratings were so low. All that any of them say is covid. A lack of "big name" movies.

 

[apocaliptic]

Respect to Anthony Hopkins, but Oscars are shitty, the movies are shitty and the other actors are shitty and bad.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Is a theft... Soul is easy one of the worst pixar movies

 

[ManaByte]

Here's Why the 2021 Oscars Ended With Best Actor, Not Best Picture

The 2021 Oscars ceremony bucked tradition and ended the night with Best Actor, not Best Picture. Here's why the shuffle happened.

collider.com

While Mills argued that the show was a success in that it defied expectations, his first sentence highlights a wrongful presumption. He says the show was not supposed to end “on somebody who was not present.” In other words, Chadwick Boseman was expected to earn a posthumous Oscar.

The Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom star was the clear frontrunner for Best Actor in a Leading Role, having previously taken home the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for his unfettered performance. Producers likely expected Boseman to win the Oscar, upon which his widowed wife would come onto the stage, accept the award on his behalf, and deliver a speech that would bring the audience to tears. Yet, the six-time Oscar nominee Anthony Hopkins won the coveted prize. And, instead of a tearful denouement, viewers got an anticlimactic finish.

 

[Fbh]

It’s only ever going to go down. The plebs don’t watch this shit and instead sign up to Netflix and Disney+ by the millions to watch popular blockbuster stuff or movie quality tv shows.

The most popular and financially successful movies have never (or at least for a long time) aligned with the award winning ones.
Look at the most financially successful movies over the past several decades. It has always been stuff like Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Lord of The rings, Harry Potter, Marvel, ET, Star Wars, Jaws, Grease, etc.

The Oscars just used to be more fun. They did a much better job at selling the illusion of actually being a celebration of the best movies. Now its all about the race, gender and sexual orientation of the nominees, with diversity quotas probably taking it further when they come into action in 2024. Acceptance speeches used to be fun, emotional or just grateful, talking about the movie, the character, fellow cast members or the award itself, now we have to hear Joaquin Phonex yapping on about equality and soy milk.

 

[Gp1]

The most popular and financially successful movies have never (or at least for a long time) aligned with the award winning ones.
Look at the most financially successful movies over the past several decades. It has always been stuff like Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Lord of The rings, Harry Potter, Marvel, ET, Star Wars, Jaws, Grease, etc.

The Oscars just used to be more fun. They did a much better job at selling the illusion of actually being a celebration of the best movies. Now its all about the race, gender and sexual orientation of the nominees, with diversity quotas probably taking it further when they come into action in 2024. Acceptance speeches used to be fun, emotional or just grateful, talking about the movie, the character, fellow cast members or the award itself, now we have to hear Joaquin Phonex yapping on about equality and soy milk.

 

[kruis]

Bill Maher: "If your movie is so woke, how come I'm falling asleep" ...

 

[Thirty7ven]

Glad the ratings tanked hard. The list of nominees was depressing and the preachy tone of the ceremony was horrible.

 

[joedan]

Oscars 2021: Audiences turn away as a sluggish ceremony leaves critics cold

Fewer than 10 million people watched the 2021 Oscars, which critics described as a "trainwreck".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Loke]

 

[Punkster88]

 

[mcjmetroid]

and as usual they're blaming the bad show itself for the bad ratings rather than the fact nobody cared about these movies because they're mostly woke miserable movies during a pendemic.

 

[MayauMiao]

The media is busy kissing Hollywood asses by claiming the rating is low but "that's okay".

 

[ManaByte]

The most popular and financially successful movies have never (or at least for a long time) aligned with the award winning ones.
Look at the most financially successful movies over the past several decades. It has always been stuff like Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Lord of The rings, Harry Potter, Marvel, ET, Star Wars, Jaws, Grease, etc.

The Oscars just used to be more fun. They did a much better job at selling the illusion of actually being a celebration of the best movies. Now its all about the race, gender and sexual orientation of the nominees, with diversity quotas probably taking it further when they come into action in 2024. Acceptance speeches used to be fun, emotional or just grateful, talking about the movie, the character, fellow cast members or the award itself, now we have to hear Joaquin Phonex yapping on about equality and soy milk.

The Oscars have been in a meteoric freefall since this moment:

 

[DeepEnigma]

Not satire.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[RoboFu]

He'll win one tonight.

He should have, he was easily better than any of those other people.

 

[MrS]

He should have, he was easily better than any of those other people.

Was he fuck. Hopkins and Riz put in better performances.

 

[RoboFu]

Was he fuck. Hopkins and Riz put in better performances.

Nah Hopkins is the same guy in every movie for a long time now.
riz Ahmed is not even in same league

 

[MayauMiao]

Glad the ratings tanked hard. The list of nominees was depressing and the preachy tone of the ceremony was horrible.

For context on how bad the rating is:

2020: 23.6 million, Parasite (No host)
2019: 29.6 million, Green Book (No host)
2018: 26.5 million, The Shape of Water (Jimmy Kimmel)
2017: 32.9 million, Moonlight (Jimmy Kimmel)
2016: 34.4 million, Spotlight (Chris Rock)
2015: 37.3 million, Birdman (Neil Patrick Harris)
2014: 43.7 million, 12 Years a Slave (Ellen DeGeneres)
2013: 40.3 million, Argo (Seth MacFarlane)
2012: 39.3 million, The Artist (Billy Crystal)
2011: 37.9 million, The King’s Speech (Anne Hathaway/James Franco)
2010: 41.3 million, The Hurt Locker (Steve Martin/Alec Baldwin)
2009: 36.3 million, Slumdog Millionaire (Hugh Jackman)
2008: 32.0 million, No Country For Old Men (Jon Stewart)
2007: 40. 2 million, The Departed (Ellen DeGeneres)
2006: 38.9 million, Crash (Jon Stewart)
2005 42.1 million, Million Dollar Baby (Chris Rock)
2004: 43.5 million, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King (Billy Crystal)
2003: 33.0 million, Chicago (Steve Martin)
2002: 41.8 million, A Beautiful Mind (Whoopi Goldberg)
2001: 42.9 million, Gladiator (Steve Martin)

Oscar Viewership Hits All-Time Low With 23.6 Million

The 92nd Oscar ceremony drew 23.6 million total viewers and a 5.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic on ABC, down from last year.

deadline.com

So in 2021, less than 10 million is quite a huge drop.

 

[CloudNull]

Just finished watching it. What an awful movie. The "leaked" fatality was by far the best one, these cunts probably leaked it themselves to generate hype after getting roasted over the shitty trailers. I can't believe there's a worse movie than Godzilla vs Kong this year but here we are.

You shut your damn mouth..... King vs Godzilla is a National treasure. Exactly what I wanted between monsters fighting.

Lol. On topic. So happy the oscars tanked. I use to love knowing who won but now I don’t care at all. Hopefully the industry course corrects.

 

[Gp1]

I'm a little depressed to see this list. Besides Parasite last year, the last incontestable winner was.:

2008: 32.0 million, No Country For Old Men (Jon Stewart)

ps: Ok. I saw the contender and Parasite isn't incontestable per se, but it is a great movie nonetheless.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

The Oscars have been in a meteoric freefall since this moment:

So nice of the four of them to stay in hobbit character.

 

[MaestroMike]

So nice of the four of them to stay in hobbit character.

lmao charlize theron is tall especially with high heels shes over 6' taller than me

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

lmao charlize theron is tall especially with high heels shes over 6' taller than me

They're all pretty tall, heels seal the deal. It's ok PJ is the dark horse hobbit IRL.

 

[BouncyFrag]

So nice of the four of them to stay in hobbit character.

Samwise is there to catch Mr Frodo should he fall.

 

[j0hnnix]

Did Bloodborne win this time?

 

[kurisu_1974]

Sound of Metal and Promising Young Woman were my favorites, but I knew they were not going to win. Chicago 7 was pretty good too. Minari and Nomadland didn't do much for me. The Father was well acted, but didn't blow me away either. Judas and the Black Messiah was my least favorite, but honestly I had tipped it as the winner.

 

[BadBurger]

My weekly reminder I still need to see Wolfwalkers.

Nomadland had best picture clinched. In fact just looking through the major awards nothing really seems all that surprising.

 

[Kenpachii]

They had to displace homeless people in order to clean up the area so it looks better for there imagine.

U can't make this shit up rofl

 

[IbizaPocholo]