Okri wrote:Sideways, Fargo and Stand and Deliver each had 6. So did Moonlight if you count the ensemble category, which isn't a competitive one.
Proving that more at the Spirits means less at the Oscars, at least until now?
I watched the opening monologue - was the cannibal joke a new low even for this group? Then I watched Aubrey Plaza repeat half of Hasan Minhaj's material before giving Ke Huy Quan his award where he gave a different speech than he's been giving but all it amounted to was reading a bunch of names, most of whom no one ever heard of before. Then some other guy came on yelling something or another and I'd had enough.
I tuned back in about an hour and fifteen minutes later where the show had improved. Presenters were now presenting instead of doing stand-up schtick and the acceptance speeches had gotten better with the
Women Talking group a real standout. The speakers were Polley, her brother John Buchan the casting director, and Judith Ivey and one of the little girls (Emily Mitchell?) while the more famous actresses stood behind them. Frances McDormand did not take the stage but sat in the audience where she could smile every time that they mentioned her name.
Ivey, by the way, won the AARP Movies for Grownup Award for Best Supporting Actress over Angela Bassett and Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis won their career achievement award, while Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, and Judd Hirsch won the other acting awards. Hirsch won over Brendan Gleeson and Ke Huy Quan.
Top Gun: Maverick won Best Film over
EEAAO,
Tár,
The Woman King, and
Elvis. Baz Luhrmann won Best Director for
Elvis.
