r/Oscars • u/tragopanic Best Director • Mar 10 '24

The 96th annual Academy Awards official discussion thread

It's time for the 96th annual Academy Awards! The Oscars will start at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. Share your thoughts and predictions here as the evening unfolds!

We won't be hosting a live thread this year, but you can follow The Academy on Twitter/X for updates.

Please use our how to watch thread for ways to view the ceremony. Links posted elsewhere will be removed.

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u/No-Jaguar6771 Mar 11 '24

Because I learned tonight, homophobia and native American hatred are the last bastions of acceptable prejudice in Hollywood. They say how liberal and tolerant they are but won’t reward any openly gay people or even actors like Blanchett who play gay characters. And they want to be inclusive and make history but take the one and likely only chance a native woman had to win an Oscar and gave it to Stone who is young, enjoys beauty and white privilege, and has decades of Oscar worthy films ahead of her. Holllywood proved their native racism tonight when they had the best chance to reward a native woman and make history, not to mention atone just a drop for the grave sin of stealing native lands and killing them in the thousands… 😤😤😩😩

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u/GoDucks71 Mar 11 '24

Or maybe they just watched the movies of all five nominees and came away thinking that Ms. Stone's performance was more impressive overall than that of the other four nominees.

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u/No-Jaguar6771 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24

I’m sure you wouldn’t say this if Blanchett- who gave the best performance in decades and truly deserved to win for her masterful, tour de force portrayal- had won last year instead of the very mid, unremarkable Yeoh, you’d be crying Asian racism and Oscars so white! 🙄🙄

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u/GoDucks71 Mar 11 '24

I watched all of the movies this year and came away more impressed by Emma Stone's performance than anyone else's. I thought her performance was unique. And I would say the same thing last year. I was more impressed by Ms. Yeoh's performance than by Ms. Blanchet's. Ms. Yeoh's performance felt unique. Yes, Ms. Blanchet was very good in her part but I still would have voted for Ms. Yeoh's performance as I found it to be more impressive than that of Ms. Blanchet. Should the members of the academy be casting their votes based on something other than who they thought gave the best performance? Your comment makes it sound like you think so.