Roll Out The Red Carpet, It’s Oscar Recap Time!
Welcome to the latest episode of One Moore Hollywood Podcast! In this episode, our hosts, Chris Moore, Dennis De Nobile, and Katie Marpe, react to last Sunday's glam-filled Academy Awards. They cover the expected wins, the (albeit few) surprises, and everything in between, including Ryan Gosling's stunning rendition of "I'm Just Ken."
How Did OMHP's Predictions Pan Out?
In the last episode of OMHP, we heard our hosts' hopes, predictions, and expectations for the upcoming Academy Awards. As it turns out, they made some pretty excellent guesses. Unfortunately for SpiderMan: Across The Spider-Verse and Barbie, the surprise wins they crossed their fingers for did not come to fruition.
As the night progressed, Oppenheimer, as predicted, swept the Oscars and took home a whopping seven awards. Poor Things took home four, including Emma Stone's surprise win for Best Actress, which many expected would go to Lily Gladstone for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
A favorite moment of the night for our hosts was Ryan Gosling's top-notch performance of "I'm Just Ken.” Like the true entertainer he is, Gosling looked like he was having the time of his life up on that stage, infusing the performance with a healthy dose of gusto, humor, and impromptu audience (ahem, celebrity) interactions. Moore's only critique was that he wanted more Mojo Dojo Casa House. Alas.
Apart from Past Lives, all the films up for Best Picture took home an award in one of the other categories. While Marpe, aka Past Lives' biggest fan, is sad Past Lives didn't get awarded for its brilliance, she's pleased with how far it came. Not many films can brag about their humble beginnings as a small independent film to one of ten movies nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Highlights of the Night
As for De Nobile, he had a blast witnessing all the first-time Oscar winners this year. Apart from Emma Stone and Billie Eilish, eleven women who won Oscars were first-time winners. And, as nearly everyone knows by now, this Academy Awards marked Christopher Nolan's first Oscar. Hard to believe, but true.
Jennifer Lame, a film editor who also happened to work with Moore on Manchester By the Sea, won Best Film Editing for Oppenheimer on Sunday. Lame's win was significant to Marpe because, as she tells us, women were the first editors in early filmmaking. "Women started the art of film editing," Marpe says. Film editing was seen as a "tedious" task and, therefore, often delegated to women, so seeing a woman win one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry for editing was especially exciting for her.
When Director Mstyslav Chernov came on stage to collect his Best Documentary Oscar for 20 Days in Mariupol, he said, "Cinema forms memories and memories form history." This sentiment resonated with our hosts, reminding them of the value of stories and the great responsibility in how they choose to tell them.
Overall, Moore thought this year's awards were unexpectedly nostalgic and positive. Despite the chaos of the past few years, Sunday night was a real celebration of film and a reminder that people love good movies. As for next year's Academy Awards, it's anyone's guess what and who we'll see winning Oscars this time next year.
Our hosts can't wait to see what's coming down the pike.
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