March 3, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode to Get Wreck with straw had Goofy.
I'm your host, straw had Goofy aka Juju Green. You're
a movie guy, and we are here to talk about
the twenty twenty five Oscars that just happened. I just
finished watching them, and I just finished making a TikTok
on them and putting in my little notes, and I'm
going to give you some of the big winners. I'm
gonna give you some of the big losers, and some
of the surprises and interesting things that I saw while
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watching the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, one thing out of the way.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
A lot of people like to assume that I get
invited to the Oscars. Often I don't. I've been a
couple of times. It's been great, But I don't just
have a reserve seating in the mail or something like that.
I just hope that somebody over at the Academy is
kind enough to extend the invite, and sometimes they do
and sometimes they don't. So this time I opted to
have a kind of watch party at this airbnb because
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my house, contrary to popular belief, is very very small,
and I kind of just wanted to have enough room
to have some friends eat some pizza and watch the Oscars,
similar to what we do for the Super Bowl. Because
I don't really like American football that much. I don't
really understand it, and when it's when it's happening, I
have no idea what's going on, and a lot of
times I find myself asking questions about players and what
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certain downs mean and penalties and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But this time I was the guy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I was the guy who was the guru of the Oscars, right,
because you know, a lot of times when it comes
to the Oscars, or at least these award shows in general,
my friends have no idea what movies are nominated. They
have no idea where to find these movies. My best
friend in the world, we've been best friends since we
were she since two thousand and six. We met on
our ninth grade year in high school, like when we
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were first starting high school, and he was like, you
never put me on Tanny movies, man, how come you
never put me on? And I'm like, dude, that's literally
what my whole platform is about. I talk about movies
for a living on this podcast, on my TikTok, on
my YouTube, on my Instagram. You can never say that
I don't put you onto these type of movies. But nevertheless,
he still didn't know what most of the movies nominated were.
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So I did a lot of explaining on who the
nominees was, who I thought was going to win. I
thought they was going to win, Why I thought they
were going to lose going into this, and I'm sure
some of you guys have seen the Oscar Predictions podcast
episode that me and my buddy Cameron did just a
couple of days actually not even a couple days ago,
yesterday or the day before yesterday. We posted it yesterday.
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But you know, some of my predictions came true. A
lot of my predictions actually came true. There wasn't really
a lot of surprises here. But going into this, like
I met one of my closest friends, her name is Rihanna.
She brought her boyfriend in just meeting the guy, and
he was really adamant that Wicked was going to win everything.
And it made me think, like a lot of people
who do see the movies that are nominated think that
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that movie that they did see is going to win.
If you guys know me, and if you guys know honestly,
any other Oscar voter or anything. You know, that Wicked
didn't stand a chance in a lot of the categories
that it was nominated in, right, Like, he thought it
was gonna win Best Picture.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I was looking at him, like, I.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Don't think so, Bro, he thought it was gonna win
Best Actress for Cynthia Rivo.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Not a chance at hell.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Bro say that Cynthiony Revo is an amazing talent in
that movie, not to say that she isn't deserving of
some type of award in that movie. She just did
not deserve it, right Like, or at least in my eyes,
the Academy didn't think she was going to get it,
so therefore I didn't think she was going to get it.
That one looked like a Debmie Morlocke. But we'll talk
more about that. But yeah, So, like it's really funny
every time this kind of comes around, like we treat
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it as this super big event in our culture, in
American culture, in film culture, and a lot of times
the normal audience, a lot of people who are going
to see these movies in the theater don't know that
these movies exist, right, And you know, I tried to
explain how there's a you know, film circuit of film
festival circuit going around. How some of these films don't
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even get picked up by studios and therefore they become
like these smaller budget independent films. I believe one of
the winners of Best Documentary wasn't even picked up by
a studio when it won this award. So that is
the power of some of these films that are really great,
and that also speaks to just people who just cash
We watch films, and what are they going to choose
when they go to the theater. Are they going to
choose the big blockbuster like Avengers, dead Pool and Wolverine,
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or you know, the Doom Part two which was nominated,
I should say, Or are they going to choose something
like I'm Still Here, which was already hard to find,
a Nora which got a WY release, but a lot
of people didn't really see, or at least I should say,
a lot of you know, casual moviegoers didn't see, which
ended up winning Best Picture. Again, we'll get into that,
but I just find it funny how this here is
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for autos of purpose.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a super Bowl level event, right.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We have the Grammys, we have the Super Bowls, we
have the Oscars and then you know, I guess when
I was younger in the MTV Movie Awards. But I
feel like I just heard a weird sound and I
don't like that. This is a new house and I
don't like this. If this is my last podcast, I
just want you guys to know that I am in Inglewood, California.
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Somebody please send help. Anyway, that was a very scary thing.
Maybe it's because the substance was also nominated for Academy
Award and it actually.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Won a couple hows y'all did it win anything? Yeah?
It did?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It? Did it did Best Adaptive Screenplay. I believe I
need to look at my notes. Anyway, we will look
at that and we'll get into that right now. But
I should just get into it right now. The biggest winner,
obviously was Noora takes home five Academy Awards, and honestly,
this was a big win for Sean Baker. I think
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Sean Baker just pulled off a Lebron James Steph Curry
level feat, which is he took home four Oscars for
one movie. Now, this is honestly unprecedented. This is something
that we haven't really heard of before. Obviously we know
that producers a lot of times, like you know, get
the award and that counts. It's like a producer. But
you know, sometimes the producer is also the director. Sometimes
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the director is also the writer. But I don't know
how many creatives are writers, directors, producers and editors on
their own film. And Sean Baker literally kind of did
a herculean effort and did all these things for the
film and won all those awards for this one film,
winning winning Best Editing, winning Best Original Screenplay, winning Best Director,
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and then winning the Best Picture at the end of
the night. And then the fifth win came from Mikey Madison,
which again big win because even though she won the
SAG Award, a lot of people, including myself, thought that
Demi Moore was going to win that award, or at
least I thought that this was her award to lose. Now,
Mikey Madison was my close second, and in my heart
of hearts, Mikey Madison would have been the winner. But
every time I did like these kind of polls or
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when someone would ask me who do I think is
going to win this race? I would just always kind
of lean towards what I think the Academy would go
for and Demi Moore just had like such a great
run when it came to this award season. Obviously it
felt like a comeback story. She was sweeping a lot
of these different award shows and things like that. Obviously
not the SAG Awards, but you would think that the
Academy would also award her for that. But as I
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also said many times before, Honora was always picking up
steam a lot throughout this award show. I was talking
to my buddy Scott Mantz at the Publicist Awards literally
a couple days ago, and he asked me, what do
I think is going to win Best Picture? And I
knew it was going to be Anora, with you know,
the Academy doing something like The Brutalists or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, just doing the safe choice.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The Brutalists was always going to be a safe choice,
and then all to his purposes, it kind of was.
It did win three awards as well. It was the
second most awarded movie of the night. We'll get more
into that later, but I feel like Anora was picking
up a lot of steam. I felt like when the
movie first came out, it was on a lot of
People's Best of the Year list. It was on my
Best of the Year list. It was my number two movie,
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just behind Sing Sing, which was criminally under nominated if
you ask me. But you know, Anora just was an
all around great movie. Mikey Madison was holding the love
for being Best Actress and then she kind of lost
it once Amelia Perez picked up that storm, which was
very weird to see. But now that that kind of
died down for reasons, we know why, a Noorah kind
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of picked back up again, and I think a lot
of people saw the light with that. Now again Anora
big winner of the night. Sean Baker big big winner
of the night, and Mikey Madison, as I saw on
discussing film's X account, apparently Mikey Madison is the first
ever ghost face to win an oscar. So we could
take that home with us and sleep at night, so
I find out to be real. So yeah, once again
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Anora's biggest winner of the night. The second winner of
the night was the brutalist Adrian Brody took ca him
the award for Best Actor. And one of the things
that I found very very interesting is like this is
his second time winning Best Actor. The first time he
won in the Penis for the Penis, and this time
he was giving this very long speech. Now remember in
the middle of his speech, I started talking to my
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friends on the couch. I started to eat my pizza.
I started even showing cinematography clips to my friend because
she didn't know what the hell cinematography was. So I
decided to show us some really cool Roger Deacon cinematography
from nineteen seventeen and things of that sort. And we
were really into these different conversations on the couch and
I looked up and realized that Adrian Brody is still talking.
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This man is still talking like I was like, Wow,
this guy's going off forever. But you know, he won
Best Actor. Maybe it's because they're giving him more time.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But then they.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Started to play the music and then I was like, oh, yeah,
he should kind of get out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And he did the motion to take the music off.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He even said I did this before I got more
to say, can we cut the music off?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And they did it. And after they cut.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The music off, he continued with this speech and that
part of the speech was very long.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was like watching Lord of the Rings Forever, where.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
There was like a multiple ending after multiple ending, multiple ending,
and you could kind of tell that he was kind
of find trying to find more things to say. You
could kind of tell he was trying to find more
things to say but he couldn't. And then finally whoever
runs the orchestral was like, hey, let's just hey, cut
him off. Man cut his mic, cut his end. So
that was very bizarre to see. I can't remember if
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anyone had to have the music turned on them twice
to get his speech out there. But you know, Adrian
Brody was kind of like feeling himself, and as he should.
He won Best Actor, I would say deservedly. Show like
Timothy challow May was a close second for me, with
Colman Domingo being a close third, but you know, he
won the award and I guess he thought he deserved
all the time in the world. But I think this
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speaks to another point that I want to make about
the Oscars really quickly, is that this felt like a
very brisk Oscar.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All the other Oscars have felt like maybe overly long,
maybe a little overly self indulgent. This one was brisk,
Like speaking of Adrian Brodie getting the music called on him.
There was multiple people who was called on when the
music came right. Like, it was a lot of times
where the music just said, hey, let's let let's speak
this along. I don't even think eight o'clock rolled around
by the time the oscars were finished, right, So this
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was a very quick oscar.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think that's what they meant it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I think they believe that brevity means more audience or
something like that, you know, trying to go with the
TikTok thing. Oh my god, I keep hearing things on this.
I don't know if it's like the house settling or
if it's the window or I don't know. I'm a
try and wrap this up as fast a pouse. So
this is not gonna be a there's not gonna be
a long podcast episode. I swear to god, it's not okay.
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But yeah, so I think they were really trying to
not rush but just kind of keep it short, keep
it sweet. And that's why they played Adrian Brody twice.
And it just again it felt very very quick, and
I you know, I don't know, it just I feel
like we were missing a little bit right. Maybe it
was the performances, maybe it was I miss when they
used to do the best Original Score performances. I wish
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they would do that again, but hey, it is what
it is. It was a quick oscar. A lot of
people got to go to sleep early tonight. I don't
because I have to edit this podcast when I'm done
so I can get it to you guys in the morning.
Right now as of the recording of this, hopefully I
can get it out at that time. But yeah, so yeah,
Adrian Brody wins for that. I believe the Brutalists also
won for best Cinematography as well. I thought Doom Part
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two was going to be getting that obviously. Brutaliss has
amazing cinematography. That was my close, close, close, close second,
and some ballots I probably might have marked that is it.
So it wasn't really that surprising it won. You're just
kind of like, yeah, okay, like it won best cinematography.
Another thing that the Brutalist one is, give me one second.
It won Best Original Score, Best Original Score, which you
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guys already know how I feel about the Wild Robot
score composed by Chris Bauers. I was really pulling for
that one to win. But I did think that the
Brutalists had the best chance to win. So congratulations to
the Brutalists for it's three Academy Awards. Now, I want
to say that when it comes to the spread of
the Academy Award Awards, is that now no other film
got more than two oscars, right, Like, you know, Wicked
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got two oscars for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design,
something that I told my friend when he thought that
this movie was going to win everything, right, that was
pretty much on point. The Substance won for Best Makeup,
which obviously what it did to did me more. And
that also like might have hurt her chances to win
the Best Actress nomination, you know, best Makeup. It was
really really great. I believe it won. I believe the
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Substance won one more. I believe. But my notes areur
a little jumble right now. But do part two one
two awards Best Visual Effects and Best Sound also taking
another went away from The Wild Robot. Flow one Best
Animated Feature, and it took that away from The Wild
Robot as well. Now, I don't want to say takeaway
too lightly because Flow has been the front runner for
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Best Animated Fature for a long long while.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It did win at the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The Wild Robot did win at the Anti Awards as well,
so you know, you thought with the Anti Awards there
was going to be.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Hope for the Wild Robot.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The Wild Robot is probably the most nominated animated film
in years of being nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Sound,
and Best Score. It did not win any of those.
The Wild Robot went empty handed. I thought it was
one of the best animated films to come out of
DreamWorks in a long long time, Like I'm talking like
a long long time. Obviously, we've had Puss and Boots,
We've had to how to Train a Dragon series, But
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I think Wild Robot came out the gate immediately when
it was released, a lot of people would agree that
it's one of Dreamworks's best, and it walked away with
no awards. So a lot of people will be upset
at that. I'm a little like upset at that. But
with the movie like Flow in the Race, with the
sound of Dune in the with the score of the
Brutalists in the Race, Yeah, it was an uphill battle,
but you could still walk away knowing that the Wild
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Robots still had a lot of nominations to its name indeservedly,
So it's still a fantastic film. That doesn't take it away.
It doesn't take away the fact that it's a classic.
So if you love Wild Robot, hold your head up, eye,
we will be all right, says Kinder Klamar.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Unsurprisingly, when it's Best International Film, that is honestly the
most unsurprising win of it. Though, I will say that
the Best International Film category was its most exciting it's
been in a long time. A lot of times, especially
since the Oscar nomination pool has been like you know,
it's spanned it to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
In the Best Picture category.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Is that the International Film usually has one film that
is a cut above the rest, right that is the
one film that's going to be nominated for Best Picture.
So you know it's going to be nominated. You know
it's going to win the Best International Film category. Right now,
we've had three films that were kind of like cream
of the crop when it comes to Best International flow
with nominated for Best International Film and Best Animated Features.
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So you know it was a shoe win for Best
Animated Feature. But then you also had two Best Picture
nominees for Best International Film and correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe that was the first time ever that two
international films were both in the race for Best Picture. Now,
you who knows, Maybe about a month ago, a couple
of weeks ago, you could have made an argument of
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who's gonna win Best International Feature? Is it Amelia Perez
or is it going to be I'm Still Here? Shoot, like,
Amelia Perez was a front runner for a hot second
to win Best Picture, So therefore, could it have been
a front runner to win Best International Feature?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But since that has kind of died down of the
race a little bit, would it kind of take that
home as well? Turns out it was I'm Still Here,
And honestly, that's kind of been the move ever since
Amelia Perez's fault from Grace, So you know again, That's
why I say it's kind of unsurprising. But I do
want to point out that little tidbit that the international
category was the most interesting that it's been. But however,
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Press as I predicted, still took home to oscars, and
those Oscars were for El Mahl, which is Best Original Song.
That one has been sweeping every original song category and
every Award Show, so that wasn't surprising at all. But
Zoe's Odonna wins Best Supporting Actress, which again unsurprising because
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she has been sweeping award season. She has been the
one saving grace that has come out of this very
confusing run of possibly one of the most confusing runs
of a Best Pictured nominee, one of the most nominated
movies of the year. I believe it had thirteen nominations,
it only took home two. Could it be due to
the fall from grace or could it be like that
people wisened up and said this movie doesn't really need
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to be here. But one thing that we all could
agree on is that I guess el Mao is a
good song, but we do know for sure that Zois
Aldana is a great freakin' actress. And I don't want
to beat too much on the horse of zoas Aldona's
deserving this win. I think we can all agree on that.
But I do think that she should have been not
like she should have been nominated for Naitiri in the
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Avatar franchise. There's a lot of performances that she's really
been good at. But I'm glad that she finally got
that oscar and she finally has that cloud. So in
my hand, I have a list here of movies that
were nominated for some Oscars but ended up walking home
with zero. I'm gonna name a few that just kind
of is no surprising. But then there's some on this
list that probably will shock you.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So Gladiator too.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Honestly, outside of costumes, I don't think it should have
been nominated for anything. Didn't really dig the movie that much.
Alien Romulus, not Going Home. It's not really something that
moves me. Better Man, great movie. Maybe it had a
chance in the VFX department, but going up against the
likes of Doom two, it was already an uphill battle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
The Apprentice. Okay, no, not really.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Here's one nos Faratu a complete unknown, the Wild robot
in Sing Sing, the Wild Robots Sing Sing a completely unknown,
and nos Forratu. Have to read that backwards because that
is absolutely I'm not gonna say insane.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It happens. We know what happens. But still it kind
of stands to.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Know that Sing Sing not only wasn't nominated for Best
Picture what I think, which I think fully deserved it.
Not only did Clarence aka Divine g not get nominated
for Best Supporting Actor. This movie did not walk home
with no oscars at all. This was my favorite movie
of the year last year, and it just just walked
home empty handed. So you know, those are things that
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will keep me up at night for the maybe till
the end of time.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
But all in all, I feel like this Oscar episode,
I guess this Oscar ceremony was just very much part
for the course, right, there wasn't really a lot of
big surprises outside of the Mikey Madison debby Moore, and
even then you can't really say it's a huge surprise
given that she won the sag Award. I believe cinematography
could have been up in there between Doom Part two
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and The Brutalist. Again, not really a big surprise between
those two, but some of the biggest surprises for me.
Probably the biggest surprise to me because there really wasn't
a lot of scandal that happened in this right, There
really wasn't a lot of that. There was no slap,
there was no not even a scandal, but there was
no like selfie that Ella DeGeneres took, Like you know,
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I think Conan O'Brien was a great host all in all,
But I think the biggest thing that kind of stuck
out to me was the fact that in honoring Quincy Jones,
who passed away this year, and you know, if you
know Quincy Jones, you know that he's an amazing or
was an amazing songwriter, and he wrote for some amazing movies,
some iconic movies. He was the first black man to
be nominated for Best Original Song and Best Original Score
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in that same year. He also did the music for
one of my favorite movies, The Whiz, which is a
all black retelling of the Wizard of Oz. I found
it interesting that they chose to do that song some
like Queen Latifa amazingly, by the way, got everybody up
out of their seats, mainly the black people. But I
found it hilarious that they would do that in a
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year where Wicked is nominated for all these Academy Awards,
So we had two separate Wizard of Oz things happening
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And I found it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Very interesting that you had Cynthia Revo and Ariana Grande
dancing to the Wizzes Ease On Down the Road, sung
by Queen Latifah.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I listen, a lot of people say that I reach
for things.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A lot of people say that I think too much
on things, and I joke about it and say, hey,
I'm a professional overthinker. But you cannot deny that The
Wiz is playing on stage while the current nominated stars
of Wicked are dancing to it. I just like things
like that. I like making ties like that. It's fun
for me. I hope that's also fun for you. And
if you didn't know that that you didn't really think
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about that when it was happening. Congratulations, welcome to the mind,
welcome to get record, stra Ha, goofy, Welcome to the
movie guy Brain.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But yeah, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Also, what was really funny is that, obviously The Whiz
is a black It's a black thing. Okay, it's a
very everybody can love it. Everybody loves it. It's a
black thing. And I found it funny that a lot
of black people, a lot of the black celebrities, got up.
It was funny because like you see a lot of
them like kind of like scattered, and they're getting up
and they're dancing and everything. All the other ones are
kind of like sitting down just kind of nodding their heads.
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And so you see the shot of Coma Domingo just
in the front, he's in the front, and you just
see him grooving in the center of the screen, just
like yeah and singing a song. But then also you
see Comena Domingo, Cynthia Rivo, and then there were some
other like black celebrities that were dancing.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
But then you see.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Ariana Grande And I got none against Ariana Grande at all.
I just find it funny because you know, a lot
of people accused her of like, you know, doing blackface,
and you know, like wanted to be with the black
crowd and like want to do R and B and
all this stuff, and then she's hanging with the black
people again, and I just thought that was cute.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I thought that was pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now, obviously, you on the surface, you could just look
at that as like, oh, like Cynthia Revo got up
and then Ariana Grinde got up. Obviously, we saw the
press tour between those two when it came to Wicked,
and we saw how close they were. They're pretty much
like sisters at this point, and so those two together
was very very sweet. And very very wholesome singing to
the Whiz, because you could tell that they probably were
both listening to a lot of the Whiz during the
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shooting of that film. But yeah, this was like the
big thing that happened for me. If anybody asked me, like,
what's my favorite part of this oscars, I will probably
point to the performance of the Whiz ease on down
the Road from Queen Lativa in those moments between Cynthia
Rivo and Ariana Grande. But those are my thoughts on
the twenty twenty five Oscars. I hope you guys enjoyed them.
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in the comments, like what are your thoughts on this
year's Oscars?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Did your favorite movies win? Were there any snubs? Were
there any surprises?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Was there anything that you want to talk about in
general that I miss Please let me know and I
will catch you guys next time when we talk about
the next movie.
Welcome to another episode to Get Wreck with straw had Goofy.
I'm your host, straw had Goofy aka Juju Green. You're
a movie guy, and we are here to talk about
the twenty twenty five Oscars that just happened. I just
finished watching them, and I just finished making a TikTok
on them and putting in my little notes, and I'm
going to give you some of the big winners. I'm
gonna give you some of the big losers, and some
of the surprises and interesting things that I saw while
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watching the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now, one thing out of the way.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
A lot of people like to assume that I get
invited to the Oscars. Often I don't. I've been a
couple of times. It's been great, But I don't just
have a reserve seating in the mail or something like that.
I just hope that somebody over at the Academy is
kind enough to extend the invite, and sometimes they do
and sometimes they don't. So this time I opted to
have a kind of watch party at this airbnb because
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my house, contrary to popular belief, is very very small,
and I kind of just wanted to have enough room
to have some friends eat some pizza and watch the Oscars,
similar to what we do for the Super Bowl. Because
I don't really like American football that much. I don't
really understand it, and when it's when it's happening, I
have no idea what's going on, and a lot of
times I find myself asking questions about players and what
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certain downs mean and penalties and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
But this time I was the guy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I was the guy who was the guru of the Oscars, right,
because you know, a lot of times when it comes
to the Oscars, or at least these award shows in general,
my friends have no idea what movies are nominated. They
have no idea where to find these movies. My best
friend in the world, we've been best friends since we
were she since two thousand and six. We met on
our ninth grade year in high school, like when we
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were first starting high school, and he was like, you
never put me on Tanny movies, man, how come you
never put me on? And I'm like, dude, that's literally
what my whole platform is about. I talk about movies
for a living on this podcast, on my TikTok, on
my YouTube, on my Instagram. You can never say that
I don't put you onto these type of movies. But nevertheless,
he still didn't know what most of the movies nominated were.
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So I did a lot of explaining on who the
nominees was, who I thought was going to win. I
thought they was going to win, Why I thought they
were going to lose going into this, and I'm sure
some of you guys have seen the Oscar Predictions podcast
episode that me and my buddy Cameron did just a
couple of days actually not even a couple days ago,
yesterday or the day before yesterday. We posted it yesterday.
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But you know, some of my predictions came true. A
lot of my predictions actually came true. There wasn't really
a lot of surprises here. But going into this, like
I met one of my closest friends, her name is Rihanna.
She brought her boyfriend in just meeting the guy, and
he was really adamant that Wicked was going to win everything.
And it made me think, like a lot of people
who do see the movies that are nominated think that
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that movie that they did see is going to win.
If you guys know me, and if you guys know honestly,
any other Oscar voter or anything. You know, that Wicked
didn't stand a chance in a lot of the categories
that it was nominated in, right, Like, he thought it
was gonna win Best Picture.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I was looking at him, like, I.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Don't think so, Bro, he thought it was gonna win
Best Actress for Cynthia Rivo.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Not a chance at hell.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Bro say that Cynthiony Revo is an amazing talent in
that movie, not to say that she isn't deserving of
some type of award in that movie. She just did
not deserve it, right Like, or at least in my eyes,
the Academy didn't think she was going to get it,
so therefore I didn't think she was going to get it.
That one looked like a Debmie Morlocke. But we'll talk
more about that. But yeah, So, like it's really funny
every time this kind of comes around, like we treat
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it as this super big event in our culture, in
American culture, in film culture, and a lot of times
the normal audience, a lot of people who are going
to see these movies in the theater don't know that
these movies exist, right, And you know, I tried to
explain how there's a you know, film circuit of film
festival circuit going around. How some of these films don't
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even get picked up by studios and therefore they become
like these smaller budget independent films. I believe one of
the winners of Best Documentary wasn't even picked up by
a studio when it won this award. So that is
the power of some of these films that are really great,
and that also speaks to just people who just cash
We watch films, and what are they going to choose
when they go to the theater. Are they going to
choose the big blockbuster like Avengers, dead Pool and Wolverine,
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or you know, the Doom Part two which was nominated,
I should say, Or are they going to choose something
like I'm Still Here, which was already hard to find,
a Nora which got a WY release, but a lot
of people didn't really see, or at least I should say,
a lot of you know, casual moviegoers didn't see, which
ended up winning Best Picture. Again, we'll get into that,
but I just find it funny how this here is
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for autos of purpose.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a super Bowl level event, right.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We have the Grammys, we have the Super Bowls, we
have the Oscars and then you know, I guess when
I was younger in the MTV Movie Awards. But I
feel like I just heard a weird sound and I
don't like that. This is a new house and I
don't like this. If this is my last podcast, I
just want you guys to know that I am in Inglewood, California.
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Somebody please send help. Anyway, that was a very scary thing.
Maybe it's because the substance was also nominated for Academy
Award and it actually.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Won a couple hows y'all did it win anything? Yeah?
It did?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It? Did it did Best Adaptive Screenplay. I believe I
need to look at my notes. Anyway, we will look
at that and we'll get into that right now. But
I should just get into it right now. The biggest winner,
obviously was Noora takes home five Academy Awards, and honestly,
this was a big win for Sean Baker. I think
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Sean Baker just pulled off a Lebron James Steph Curry
level feat, which is he took home four Oscars for
one movie. Now, this is honestly unprecedented. This is something
that we haven't really heard of before. Obviously we know
that producers a lot of times, like you know, get
the award and that counts. It's like a producer. But
you know, sometimes the producer is also the director. Sometimes
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the director is also the writer. But I don't know
how many creatives are writers, directors, producers and editors on
their own film. And Sean Baker literally kind of did
a herculean effort and did all these things for the
film and won all those awards for this one film,
winning winning Best Editing, winning Best Original Screenplay, winning Best Director,
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and then winning the Best Picture at the end of
the night. And then the fifth win came from Mikey Madison,
which again big win because even though she won the
SAG Award, a lot of people, including myself, thought that
Demi Moore was going to win that award, or at
least I thought that this was her award to lose. Now,
Mikey Madison was my close second, and in my heart
of hearts, Mikey Madison would have been the winner. But
every time I did like these kind of polls or
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when someone would ask me who do I think is
going to win this race? I would just always kind
of lean towards what I think the Academy would go
for and Demi Moore just had like such a great
run when it came to this award season. Obviously it
felt like a comeback story. She was sweeping a lot
of these different award shows and things like that. Obviously
not the SAG Awards, but you would think that the
Academy would also award her for that. But as I
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also said many times before, Honora was always picking up
steam a lot throughout this award show. I was talking
to my buddy Scott Mantz at the Publicist Awards literally
a couple days ago, and he asked me, what do
I think is going to win Best Picture? And I
knew it was going to be Anora, with you know,
the Academy doing something like The Brutalists or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, just doing the safe choice.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The Brutalists was always going to be a safe choice,
and then all to his purposes, it kind of was.
It did win three awards as well. It was the
second most awarded movie of the night. We'll get more
into that later, but I feel like Anora was picking
up a lot of steam. I felt like when the
movie first came out, it was on a lot of
People's Best of the Year list. It was on my
Best of the Year list. It was my number two movie,
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just behind Sing Sing, which was criminally under nominated if
you ask me. But you know, Anora just was an
all around great movie. Mikey Madison was holding the love
for being Best Actress and then she kind of lost
it once Amelia Perez picked up that storm, which was
very weird to see. But now that that kind of
died down for reasons, we know why, a Noorah kind
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of picked back up again, and I think a lot
of people saw the light with that. Now again Anora
big winner of the night. Sean Baker big big winner
of the night, and Mikey Madison, as I saw on
discussing film's X account, apparently Mikey Madison is the first
ever ghost face to win an oscar. So we could
take that home with us and sleep at night, so
I find out to be real. So yeah, once again
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Anora's biggest winner of the night. The second winner of
the night was the brutalist Adrian Brody took ca him
the award for Best Actor. And one of the things
that I found very very interesting is like this is
his second time winning Best Actor. The first time he
won in the Penis for the Penis, and this time
he was giving this very long speech. Now remember in
the middle of his speech, I started talking to my
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friends on the couch. I started to eat my pizza.
I started even showing cinematography clips to my friend because
she didn't know what the hell cinematography was. So I
decided to show us some really cool Roger Deacon cinematography
from nineteen seventeen and things of that sort. And we
were really into these different conversations on the couch and
I looked up and realized that Adrian Brody is still talking.
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This man is still talking like I was like, Wow,
this guy's going off forever. But you know, he won
Best Actor. Maybe it's because they're giving him more time.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
But then they.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Started to play the music and then I was like, oh, yeah,
he should kind of get out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And he did the motion to take the music off.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He even said I did this before I got more
to say, can we cut the music off?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And they did it. And after they cut.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The music off, he continued with this speech and that
part of the speech was very long.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was like watching Lord of the Rings Forever, where.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
There was like a multiple ending after multiple ending, multiple ending,
and you could kind of tell that he was kind
of find trying to find more things to say. You
could kind of tell he was trying to find more
things to say but he couldn't. And then finally whoever
runs the orchestral was like, hey, let's just hey, cut
him off. Man cut his mic, cut his end. So
that was very bizarre to see. I can't remember if
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anyone had to have the music turned on them twice
to get his speech out there. But you know, Adrian
Brody was kind of like feeling himself, and as he should.
He won Best Actor, I would say deservedly. Show like
Timothy challow May was a close second for me, with
Colman Domingo being a close third, but you know, he
won the award and I guess he thought he deserved
all the time in the world. But I think this
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speaks to another point that I want to make about
the Oscars really quickly, is that this felt like a
very brisk Oscar.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All the other Oscars have felt like maybe overly long,
maybe a little overly self indulgent. This one was brisk,
Like speaking of Adrian Brodie getting the music called on him.
There was multiple people who was called on when the
music came right. Like, it was a lot of times
where the music just said, hey, let's let let's speak
this along. I don't even think eight o'clock rolled around
by the time the oscars were finished, right, So this
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was a very quick oscar.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think that's what they meant it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I think they believe that brevity means more audience or
something like that, you know, trying to go with the
TikTok thing. Oh my god, I keep hearing things on this.
I don't know if it's like the house settling or
if it's the window or I don't know. I'm a
try and wrap this up as fast a pouse. So
this is not gonna be a there's not gonna be
a long podcast episode. I swear to god, it's not okay.
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But yeah, so I think they were really trying to
not rush but just kind of keep it short, keep
it sweet. And that's why they played Adrian Brody twice.
And it just again it felt very very quick, and
I you know, I don't know, it just I feel
like we were missing a little bit right. Maybe it
was the performances, maybe it was I miss when they
used to do the best Original Score performances. I wish
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they would do that again, but hey, it is what
it is. It was a quick oscar. A lot of
people got to go to sleep early tonight. I don't
because I have to edit this podcast when I'm done
so I can get it to you guys in the morning.
Right now as of the recording of this, hopefully I
can get it out at that time. But yeah, so yeah,
Adrian Brody wins for that. I believe the Brutalists also
won for best Cinematography as well. I thought Doom Part
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two was going to be getting that obviously. Brutaliss has
amazing cinematography. That was my close, close, close, close second,
and some ballots I probably might have marked that is it.
So it wasn't really that surprising it won. You're just
kind of like, yeah, okay, like it won best cinematography.
Another thing that the Brutalist one is, give me one second.
It won Best Original Score, Best Original Score, which you
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guys already know how I feel about the Wild Robot
score composed by Chris Bauers. I was really pulling for
that one to win. But I did think that the
Brutalists had the best chance to win. So congratulations to
the Brutalists for it's three Academy Awards. Now, I want
to say that when it comes to the spread of
the Academy Award Awards, is that now no other film
got more than two oscars, right, Like, you know, Wicked
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got two oscars for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design,
something that I told my friend when he thought that
this movie was going to win everything, right, that was
pretty much on point. The Substance won for Best Makeup,
which obviously what it did to did me more. And
that also like might have hurt her chances to win
the Best Actress nomination, you know, best Makeup. It was
really really great. I believe it won. I believe the
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Substance won one more. I believe. But my notes areur
a little jumble right now. But do part two one
two awards Best Visual Effects and Best Sound also taking
another went away from The Wild Robot. Flow one Best
Animated Feature, and it took that away from The Wild
Robot as well. Now, I don't want to say takeaway
too lightly because Flow has been the front runner for
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Best Animated Fature for a long long while.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It did win at the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The Wild Robot did win at the Anti Awards as well,
so you know, you thought with the Anti Awards there
was going to be.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Hope for the Wild Robot.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The Wild Robot is probably the most nominated animated film
in years of being nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Sound,
and Best Score. It did not win any of those.
The Wild Robot went empty handed. I thought it was
one of the best animated films to come out of
DreamWorks in a long long time, Like I'm talking like
a long long time. Obviously, we've had Puss and Boots,
We've had to how to Train a Dragon series, But
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I think Wild Robot came out the gate immediately when
it was released, a lot of people would agree that
it's one of Dreamworks's best, and it walked away with
no awards. So a lot of people will be upset
at that. I'm a little like upset at that. But
with the movie like Flow in the Race, with the
sound of Dune in the with the score of the
Brutalists in the Race, Yeah, it was an uphill battle,
but you could still walk away knowing that the Wild
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Robots still had a lot of nominations to its name indeservedly,
So it's still a fantastic film. That doesn't take it away.
It doesn't take away the fact that it's a classic.
So if you love Wild Robot, hold your head up, eye,
we will be all right, says Kinder Klamar.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Unsurprisingly, when it's Best International Film, that is honestly the
most unsurprising win of it. Though, I will say that
the Best International Film category was its most exciting it's
been in a long time. A lot of times, especially
since the Oscar nomination pool has been like you know,
it's spanned it to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
In the Best Picture category.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Is that the International Film usually has one film that
is a cut above the rest, right that is the
one film that's going to be nominated for Best Picture.
So you know it's going to be nominated. You know
it's going to win the Best International Film category. Right now,
we've had three films that were kind of like cream
of the crop when it comes to Best International flow
with nominated for Best International Film and Best Animated Features.
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So you know it was a shoe win for Best
Animated Feature. But then you also had two Best Picture
nominees for Best International Film and correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe that was the first time ever that two
international films were both in the race for Best Picture. Now,
you who knows, Maybe about a month ago, a couple
of weeks ago, you could have made an argument of
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who's gonna win Best International Feature? Is it Amelia Perez
or is it going to be I'm Still Here? Shoot, like,
Amelia Perez was a front runner for a hot second
to win Best Picture, So therefore, could it have been
a front runner to win Best International Feature?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But since that has kind of died down of the
race a little bit, would it kind of take that
home as well? Turns out it was I'm Still Here,
And honestly, that's kind of been the move ever since
Amelia Perez's fault from Grace, So you know again, That's
why I say it's kind of unsurprising. But I do
want to point out that little tidbit that the international
category was the most interesting that it's been. But however,
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Press as I predicted, still took home to oscars, and
those Oscars were for El Mahl, which is Best Original Song.
That one has been sweeping every original song category and
every Award Show, so that wasn't surprising at all. But
Zoe's Odonna wins Best Supporting Actress, which again unsurprising because
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she has been sweeping award season. She has been the
one saving grace that has come out of this very
confusing run of possibly one of the most confusing runs
of a Best Pictured nominee, one of the most nominated
movies of the year. I believe it had thirteen nominations,
it only took home two. Could it be due to
the fall from grace or could it be like that
people wisened up and said this movie doesn't really need
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to be here. But one thing that we all could
agree on is that I guess el Mao is a
good song, but we do know for sure that Zois
Aldana is a great freakin' actress. And I don't want
to beat too much on the horse of zoas Aldona's
deserving this win. I think we can all agree on that.
But I do think that she should have been not
like she should have been nominated for Naitiri in the
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Avatar franchise. There's a lot of performances that she's really
been good at. But I'm glad that she finally got
that oscar and she finally has that cloud. So in
my hand, I have a list here of movies that
were nominated for some Oscars but ended up walking home
with zero. I'm gonna name a few that just kind
of is no surprising. But then there's some on this
list that probably will shock you.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So Gladiator too.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Honestly, outside of costumes, I don't think it should have
been nominated for anything. Didn't really dig the movie that much.
Alien Romulus, not Going Home. It's not really something that
moves me. Better Man, great movie. Maybe it had a
chance in the VFX department, but going up against the
likes of Doom two, it was already an uphill battle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
The Apprentice. Okay, no, not really.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Here's one nos Faratu a complete unknown, the Wild robot
in Sing Sing, the Wild Robots Sing Sing a completely unknown,
and nos Forratu. Have to read that backwards because that
is absolutely I'm not gonna say insane.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It happens. We know what happens. But still it kind
of stands to.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Know that Sing Sing not only wasn't nominated for Best
Picture what I think, which I think fully deserved it.
Not only did Clarence aka Divine g not get nominated
for Best Supporting Actor. This movie did not walk home
with no oscars at all. This was my favorite movie
of the year last year, and it just just walked
home empty handed. So you know, those are things that
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will keep me up at night for the maybe till
the end of time.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
But all in all, I feel like this Oscar episode,
I guess this Oscar ceremony was just very much part
for the course, right, there wasn't really a lot of
big surprises outside of the Mikey Madison debby Moore, and
even then you can't really say it's a huge surprise
given that she won the sag Award. I believe cinematography
could have been up in there between Doom Part two
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and The Brutalist. Again, not really a big surprise between
those two, but some of the biggest surprises for me.
Probably the biggest surprise to me because there really wasn't
a lot of scandal that happened in this right, There
really wasn't a lot of that. There was no slap,
there was no not even a scandal, but there was
no like selfie that Ella DeGeneres took, Like you know,
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I think Conan O'Brien was a great host all in all,
But I think the biggest thing that kind of stuck
out to me was the fact that in honoring Quincy Jones,
who passed away this year, and you know, if you
know Quincy Jones, you know that he's an amazing or
was an amazing songwriter, and he wrote for some amazing movies,
some iconic movies. He was the first black man to
be nominated for Best Original Song and Best Original Score
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in that same year. He also did the music for
one of my favorite movies, The Whiz, which is a
all black retelling of the Wizard of Oz. I found
it interesting that they chose to do that song some
like Queen Latifa amazingly, by the way, got everybody up
out of their seats, mainly the black people. But I
found it hilarious that they would do that in a
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year where Wicked is nominated for all these Academy Awards,
So we had two separate Wizard of Oz things happening
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And I found it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Very interesting that you had Cynthia Revo and Ariana Grande
dancing to the Wizzes Ease On Down the Road, sung
by Queen Latifah.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I listen, a lot of people say that I reach
for things.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
A lot of people say that I think too much
on things, and I joke about it and say, hey,
I'm a professional overthinker. But you cannot deny that The
Wiz is playing on stage while the current nominated stars
of Wicked are dancing to it. I just like things
like that. I like making ties like that. It's fun
for me. I hope that's also fun for you. And
if you didn't know that that you didn't really think
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about that when it was happening. Congratulations, welcome to the mind,
welcome to get record, stra Ha, goofy, Welcome to the
movie guy Brain.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But yeah, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Also, what was really funny is that, obviously The Whiz
is a black It's a black thing. Okay, it's a
very everybody can love it. Everybody loves it. It's a
black thing. And I found it funny that a lot
of black people, a lot of the black celebrities, got up.
It was funny because like you see a lot of
them like kind of like scattered, and they're getting up
and they're dancing and everything. All the other ones are
kind of like sitting down just kind of nodding their heads.
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And so you see the shot of Coma Domingo just
in the front, he's in the front, and you just
see him grooving in the center of the screen, just
like yeah and singing a song. But then also you
see Comena Domingo, Cynthia Rivo, and then there were some
other like black celebrities that were dancing.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
But then you see.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Ariana Grande And I got none against Ariana Grande at all.
I just find it funny because you know, a lot
of people accused her of like, you know, doing blackface,
and you know, like wanted to be with the black
crowd and like want to do R and B and
all this stuff, and then she's hanging with the black
people again, and I just thought that was cute.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I thought that was pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now, obviously, you on the surface, you could just look
at that as like, oh, like Cynthia Revo got up
and then Ariana Grinde got up. Obviously, we saw the
press tour between those two when it came to Wicked,
and we saw how close they were. They're pretty much
like sisters at this point, and so those two together
was very very sweet. And very very wholesome singing to
the Whiz, because you could tell that they probably were
both listening to a lot of the Whiz during the
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shooting of that film. But yeah, this was like the
big thing that happened for me. If anybody asked me, like,
what's my favorite part of this oscars, I will probably
point to the performance of the Whiz ease on down
the Road from Queen Lativa in those moments between Cynthia
Rivo and Ariana Grande. But those are my thoughts on
the twenty twenty five Oscars. I hope you guys enjoyed them.
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I get to do it, the happier that it will
(22:49):
make me and you as a result. Let me know
in the comments, like what are your thoughts on this
year's Oscars?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Did your favorite movies win? Were there any snubs? Were
there any surprises?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Was there anything that you want to talk about in
general that I miss Please let me know and I
will catch you guys next time when we talk about
the next movie.
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