The Father released just before the eligibility deadline and, like so many Oscar-bait films before it, was fresh in the mind of voters who had already moved on from
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Is this really what people have been getting all excited about for the last 90-some years? Not only is it just people giving each other gold statues for playing pretend, but apparently they’re just giving them to the film they’ve seen the most recently. You know, as long as it’s depressing and obscure or at least makes the old white people who vote for these sorts of things feel less racist.
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in