HIGH: Beyoncé's opening performance LOW: Watching the red carpet while Oscars were handed out inside WHOA: Duh
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images This year, the Oscars learned the dangers of trying to enter the speed force. The show, trimmed down for broadcast, started out eager to please and seem populist, stuffed with montage tributes to movies the Academy expected everyone to recognize and even selections from the Twitter-chosen “cheer moments” of the last year.
LOW and HIGH and LOW: Three announcers, zero cohesion. Hard to know how anyone could’ve predicted this, but it turns out when you have three hosts, you’re going to have … three hosts. Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes do kind of make sense together: they are three women who are funny. Beyond that, though, the trio had little in common as Oscar hosts, and it was palpable from the moment they first walked on stage together.
LOW: ABC inserting the pre-taped Oscar wins as if they were airing live. We knew the clips would be edited into the rest of the show, but doing so without explanation or pretext was disorienting. The nominees still got their clip reels, but the producers cut out their walk to the stage and shortened the speeches, all while interspersing clips of famous audience members who weren’t in the room at the time.
LOW: The attempts to play off Ryusuke Hamaguchi during his acceptance speech. Calm down, Oscar band! Hamaguchi makes very long movies. Give him time to finish his very thoughtful and generous speech, in which he classily shouted out the work of his cast, none of whom were nominated for awards. WHOA: Will Smith’s reaction to Chris Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith. Before introducing Best Documentary, Chris Rock did a little crowd work about married couples in the audience, addressed Will Smith and then indicated to Jada, who has talked about experiencing hair loss due to Alopecia, and went, “I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it.
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