Welcome to my Academy Awards / Oscar 96th page! As you may or may not know, I am a huge Academy Awards/Oscars fan, it's basically my Super Bowl at the end of the awards season.
The awards season starts with the Emmys, then moves on to the Golden Globes, then off to the SAG-AFTRA awards and to the final sprint: The Oscars. Mind you, there are what they call Guild Awards, where the guilds of the movie makers (ie, producers, directors, makeup + hairstyling) all have THEIR awards for the movies THEY think were the best and give out awards annually as well. It's basically showing the award winners for those guilds that they really are loved.
This year's show was lauded as the best since 2020, with an audience of 19.5 million tuning in to see who was gonna win on the big night. Let's face it, we all knew it would come to this fabulous night with the start of barbenHeimer in the summer. For this that don't know what BarbenHeimer is defined from Wikipedia as:
"Barbenheimer (/ˈbɑːrbənhaɪmər/ BAR-bən-hy-mər)[a] was a cultural phenomenon which preceded and surrounded the simultaneous theatrical release of two films, Warner Bros. Pictures's Barbie and Universal Pictures's Oppenheimer, on July 21, 2023. The word is a portmanteau of the films' titles. The strong contrast between Barbie—a fantasy comedy by Greta Gerwig about the fashion doll Barbie—and Oppenheimer—an epic biographical thriller by Christopher Nolan about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project—prompted a comedic response from Internet users, including memes, merchandise and memorabilia. Polygon described the two films as "extreme opposites", and Variety called the phenomenon "the movie event of the year".
Overall, the show was great this year. Lots other twists, turns, surprises and major upsets. For example, "Poor Things" came out of nowhere for the majority of the awards, Oppenheimer won where I predicted, more or less, and Barbie's song, "What Was I Made For?" Won awards.
The most major upset for the evening was Best Actress, by watching the majority of the award shows this season, it looked like Lily Gladstone was set to win for Best Actress of "Killers of the Flower Moon." But in swooped Emma Stone. The Academy, for some reason, could not find it in their hearts to award the first Native American woman an Oscar; now could they nominate Greta Gerwig for Best Director for Barbie, even though the movie was up for Best Picture and Aadapted Screenplay (which she co-wrote)...go figure.
Below you will find my pictures from the decorations I put up, food that was eaten and a sundry of other information from this year's show. Enjoy.
