The Oscars Telecast Had More Than “I’m Just Ken”

All informed, this appeared like a fairly good Oscars. I believed Jimmy Kimmel was sharp, and never smug; he knew the way to poke enjoyable with out belittling anybody; he docked the ship 5 minutes early; he honored the crew and the Teamsters and their laborious work and help of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, particularly significant as their offers come up in June and a strike is extensively anticipated in August; and his writers did a very good job with amusing bits for the presenter groups, all of which felt like they landed (except I’m forgetting one thing?).

Typically, I desire seeing clips of the nominated work to speeches about every actor from a bunch of different actors, however I additionally do get that the Oscars are the final in a LONG line and too typically the clips they might use are the identical ones we’ve gotten all alongside. However a few of these intros have been deeply private, and a few felt like nobody had watched the film; practically ALL of them have been dripping in hyperbole. However even with all that, the present didn’t run lengthy, and it DID really feel like a celebration of the business, not less than extra so than traditional. So it goes within the win column for me, it doesn’t matter what the scores are.

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