So, ultimately, the broadcast (separate from the awards given) was actually pretty good: relatively brisk, without many of the saggy host-driven moments that usually drag the show to a halt; my main criticism of the production would be the choices of clips for nominees, which were almost uniformly either unrepresentative of the performance or actively unflattering of the film or the actor.domino harvey wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:26 amI knew this was going to be a shitshow so I leaned into my other brand and just watched French movies instead. Reading the winners afterwards provided me with about twenty seconds of disappointment versus 3+ hours, so I’m feeling okay about that decision
As for the awards themselves, I love that Colman won out and Cuaron took the three statues he did; on the negative side, I've come around to the opinion that the most offensive win of the night was not Green Book for Best Picture (not that it doesn't leave the bad taste of a glass full of drain cleaner) but Green Book for Original Screenplay. Almost everything that's wrong with that movie is in its script, and given the competition from Roma, First Reformed, and The Favourite, recognition for that screenplay was substantially less deserved than even its bigger win.