REVISITING THE 2019 OSCARS | Green Book vs. Roma (and Bohemian Rhapsody...)

[@aameyadevansh4246]

Glenn Close should've won 2 Oscars back in the 80s for Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction, and then we wouldn't be worrying about her dying Oscarless🤦‍♂

[@yoboinicossman]

Absurd!

[@ClassicalMusic2002]

Dangerous Liaisons is such a good movie and she killed it in that role.

[@crossaffliction]

Also, after Roma, The Irishman, Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and now The Power of the Dog, I'm starting to think the Academy just doesn't like Netflix that much.

[@oskari7121]

I disagree. They just haven't had *the one* yet.

[@nediaelifra721]

Nope artsy movies can win best picture look at moonlight and nomadland it just they haven't found the one yet Irishman was too slow and would never beat parasite or 1917 Chicago 7 no passion and no narrative couldn't beat something as edgy as pywm and revelant as noamdland Roma and tpotd too divisive and polarizing All what Netflix need is hire an overdue auteur and they will get their gold Ampas loves new faces

[@singstreetcar5881]

Irishman was long and awful.

[@dahcoconut926]

All Quiet on the Western Front was my favorite Netflix one so far

[@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719]

I feel your pain. They did Bradley Cooper wrong. My favorite movies that year were The Favourite and A Star is Born. Finally, Spiderman: Into the Spider verse should've been in the Best Picture lineup.

[@seankoontz4235]

Emily Blunt’s SAG win for A Quiet Place is pretty cool (she was great in it), but she benefited from category fraud. She was the lead

[@BattleRedRaider]

I'm not convinced The Wife is a movie hahahaha

[@spencervanderkley]

2019 would have been great if Paddington 2 had sweeped

[@jules8118]

I'd love to see you revisit more years like this! Maybe 2013?

[@ethanle8511]

First Man absolutely snubbed, especially since it WON editing and score at critic's choice

[@francisco.mrsm.22]

I think this year solidified the divide between casual movie fans and the oscars. It was a GREAT year, but a lot of the popular movies with film twitter and critics alike were snubbed. Hereditary, Annihilation, Eigth Grade, A Quiet Place, If Beele Street Could Talk, Sorry to Bother You, First Reformed, First Man, etc were entirely/mostly snubbed and Green Book/Bohemian Rhapsody's reign signaled that the academy likes what they like and unless you're a global phenomenon like Black Panther you're not getting the time of day. On the positive side, I think the 2017-2019 film years were big in making me and a lot of my friends love film so it's clear there's good stuff out there and people are watching it, just not the Academy. I *feel* like we're inching closer to an Academy that's not so enamored with bait, but we'll see. Also, I blame BoRhap and Green Book for the flood of bad/basic biopics made only so an actor can ✨️ transform ✨️ into a sanitized figure from the 20th century.

[@seankoontz4235]

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was a very good film too and the fact that it didn’t get Picture anywhere when both of the actors got nominated everywhere and it was solid in Screenplay (possibly the runner-up to BlacKkKlansman) is a little weird

[@fromomelastocarcosa3575]

Bad biopics designed for actors to *transform* has been a trend since 2000, well before this year (Jamie Foxx, Helen Mirren, Redmayne, Oldman, Streep, Roberts, Brody, Hoffman, Day Lewis, Bullock)....the trick was it used to be more often with acclaimed top actors so there was no uproar - "What? You're saying Meryl Streep doesn't deserve an Oscar!!!!" ["No, but the Iron Lady is a mediocre TV movie that isn't even in her best 25 performances and is just a Mrs T impression she could probably do spinning on her head"]) Though it was perhaps the trigger for it finally becoming *so* obvious there's a chance it might finally end sometime in the next 5 years.

[@brendanlittle2498]

First Man was disgustingly snubbed across the board and it’s inexcusable that Bradley Cooper didn’t get an Oscar for A Star is Born

[@crossaffliction]

You keep saying Green Book didn't age well in the years since, but my favorite reaction to it winning was film historian Mark Harris's sarcastic Tweet literally seconds after it won saying "Remember when Green Book won Best Picture at the Oscars? Boy, that didn't age well."

[@kassiogomes8498]

The Favourite is a perfect movie.

[@TheClubOrtiz]

2019 was definitely a crazy year for the Oscars.

[@crossaffliction]

Also, also, realizing Bohemian Rhapsody won Drama and Green Book essentially won Musical at the Golden Globes is also kind of painful.

[@kfreeman19]

Honestly, Into the Spiderverse should have been nominated for Best Picture

[@marcor7044]

2019 was not a good year, they did Roma/ Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born/First Man/If Beale Street Could Talk DIRTY. I remember before I became an Oscars person watching Green Book and thinking ´this is not bad´. But when I heard it won Best Picture I was like ´thats kind of a stretch´.

[@andrewstorm8240]

Agree

[@isabele537]

The last Oscar positive result was Titanic. The current preferred method was detrimental to choosing best pictures at The Oscars.

[@Sharpe1502]

The academy seriously needs to get over its anti-horror bias. Horror movies have been delivering some of the best acting and directing for the past decade.

[@itsybitsy999]

The Favourite should have won Original Screenplay and Picture in addition to Actress. Fight me.

[@christianreylumantao3578]

Yeah! The Favourite for Best Picture!!

[@ghostlyarranger]

I’ve also thought what should have won each year every year. They get them right but they also get it wrong as well.

[@Dan-ce1oh]

Tbh if Malek didn’t win best actor I think it would’ve gone to Christian Bale

[@fromomelastocarcosa3575]

If there was any doubt about the utterly unhinged relationships of biopics to acting Oscars, Sam Rockwell getting nominated for a 10 minute George Bush impression should be the ultimate eye opener. I love Sam Rockwell, but that maybe the most ridiculous acting nomination in Awards history. Like...any actor - almost any grown man - can do a half-decent George Bush impression. Its difficulty level is none existent.

[@MagnitudeReviews]

The year that… happened…

[@theprime6439]

I liked Rami Malek 🥲

[@isabele537]

I am Brazilian.In my opinion the movie GreenBook is better than Roma.Congratulations on your channel.

[@GareBare90]

Leave my Rami alone! Hahaha!

[@schmuck.on.wheels]

It's so weird to me when people adore A Star is Born, like I agree with almost everything else you say here except I don't see a single thing anyone sees in that movie (except Lady Gaga's performance). And I'm not a big fan of the Rami Malek win, but Bradley Cooper was to me the worst in the category by FAR, I couldn't watch that performance with a straight face. That aside, this is a weird year to me because Roma and The Favourite are both in my top 10 movies of the decade, maybe even top 5, but I don't particularly like, let alone love, any of the other noms.

[@nediaelifra721]

Tbh it proves that being divisive in industry is a huge red flag

[@singstreetcar5881]

Girlfriend? U have a girlfriend, I thought u were gay