The fact that no one had the guts to even utter the words Harvey Weinstein, his victims or the fight of the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up with the once powerful and now much accused producer currently on trial for rape in New York City right now only made Gervais’ scathing words nearly lost at the end of the Golden Globes last month more biting.
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To remind us just how bad Cats was, James Corden’s and Rebel Wilson’s appearance in full furry regalia was the wind blowing through the awards shows graveyard of irrelevance. To bring out ex- SNL duos like Bridesmaids co-stars Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig or Downhill‘s Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell and have them caught in a leg-hold trap of bad writing and clear network time-killing is a sin on any Sunday, but especially Oscar night. Yet, the reality is the comics had little new to say for 2020, a year that was screaming out for relevance and opportunity. In a predictable night of anticipated winners, Martin and Rock’s blunted jabs at the sorrowful lack of women nominated in the Directing category and Harriet’s Cynthia Erivo as the solo person of color nominated in the top acting categories would sadly have stood the test of almost any Oscars the past few years.
The fact is the immensely talented Martin and Rock were the hosts for all practical purposes with their pretty standard opening monologue – parts of which the latter supposedly practiced on an L.A. With those opening minutes fading fast in the creative twilight, it was then back to the future, in the most toothless way. Until the first Iowa Caucuses joke and audience shout-outs started with nominee Pitt, two-time winner Mahershala Ali and a string of lame swings at Jeff Bezos’ expense. Strolling out past hosts Steve Martin and Chris Rock out for a second consecutive hostless Oscars seemed like another smart play. Starting off with a high-octane glamapalooza of Harriet star Janelle Monáe with Billy Porter and Best Picture-garbed dancers blasting out the Mister Rogers theme and a slew of Hollywood classics while going right into the crowd at the Dolby, the show looked like a winner. Bested early on by multiple Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais in his online mocking Sunday, the low point on a night of many dips had to be Randy Newman back on that Toy Story beat with a tune that appears to have taken just over twice as long to write as it took to perform. Peddling the same choir book as last year’s Oscars produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with as much music to almost rival a half-hearted Grammys, and throwback montages to the songs of past cinema, the 2020 Oscars bellowed out for a ringmaster to harness what soon became a lackluster circus. However, with relatively little to shock in the big categories, if your big surprise of the night is bringing an album-peddling Eminem back to belt out his 75th Academy Awards-winning Best Original Song “Lose Yourself” and it was the night’s first standing ovation at past the 90-minute mark, you have a problem – and I love Mr. Oscars: 'Parasite' Wins Best Picture - The Complete Winners List
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