(ESP-ENG) Surprises at the Oscars? - Let's talk about it!
Hello friends, good vibes to all.
On Sunday, March 2, another Oscars ceremony took place, one that had been very commented on for different topics that for me are far from what is really important, the movies. It is a reality that it seems that less and less people are paying attention to the awards but I think this year especially that trend changed, I feel that a little more people were aware of what was going on with the films and the nominees. Today we are going to talk a little bit about that, about some of the statuettes awarded and if they were a surprise or not.
Let's start with the obvious, Anora took the honors for Best Picture. Since I saw it I was sure it was going to fight for that Oscar next to The Brutalist but in the end it was Sean Baker's work who swept the board. That film is spectacular, if you haven't seen it do yourself a favor and go see it (it has one of the best comedy scenes I've ever seen). It is a very well narrated and acted drama about the reality of many people. This brings us to a couple of other awards. Best Director, which went to Baker. I think it was a foregone conclusion that the American would take the award even though Brady Corbet had taken the BAFTA and the Critics' Choice went to Wicked's Jon M. Chu. The reality is that the awards season and its winners were very varied, hence the expectation that the Oscars were generating.

But let's talk about the best actress. Mikey Madison is incredible, from now on the doors that will open for her will be infinite, because what she did in Anora was not easy, those who demean her work by saying that she only danced with little clothes don't understand anything at all. But I do believe that this Oscar should have gone to Demi Moore (Ironic that Demi lived in reality what happened in the movie: she was beaten by the youngest actress). In The Substance it was a stellar performance, she had already won several awards but it's what I said, something always happens at the Oscars that throws people off a bit. Not that Madison didn't deserve it but Demi Moore deserved it more, that's all.
Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin respectively, were pretty sure to be the winners. The only good thing about Emilia Perez was Zoe and The Real Pain is a great movie where we saw Kieran play a very complicated role. Another thing that made me happy is that FLOW won animated film. I saw it recently and reviewed it here and honestly it's a very nice film, that with no dialogue and a budget of only $3MM it won is very cool. Best Cinematography went to The Brutalist and I couldn't agree more. The shots, the framing, the color palette, all that together is what makes the cinematography stand out so yes, Lol Crawley's work is very good.

The big loser of the night was Emilia Perez and I am grateful for that. Only 2 Oscars. No doubt about Zoe but if the best song, winning an Oscar for Elton John is daring. EP is a bad film because of acting, context, background and because they didn't know how to represent anything of what they “defended” so much, it is an offensive film that should never have had so many nominations, 13 if I'm not mistaken. It will go down in history as one of the worst films ever made. Even in the category of best foreign film, where it was the “favorite”, it ended up losing against the Brazilian I'm still here.
I liked that Conclave won at least one Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay; for those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Very sober, full of intrigue and great performances. Anyway, I think it was a pretty decent Oscars, Conan O'Brien's animation was very good with a very sharp and direct humor, it never got boring or heavy. Zero controversy with the winners, maybe a little with the Mikey and Demi thing but it's not a problem that will transcend. The movie that had to win won and that is to be applauded.
¡Un abrazo a todos, nos leemos en la próxima!
Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡Hugs to all, see you next time!
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