While the producers of the 94th Academy Awards tried their best to liven up the Oscars through scripted bits and formal tweaks, it was an unscripted moment that set the Dolby Theater—and the internet—ablaze in the end
, which tells the story of a hard-of-hearing family navigating financial and interpersonal tension in Massachusetts, was the first film distributed by a streaming service to win best picture. “Thank you to the Academy for letting ourmake history tonight,” said Philippe Rousselet, the film’s co-producer, said in his acceptance speech.
“You may not know, that ‘Oscar nominated,’ in the words of a skilled 17-year-old, can be used as an insult,” Walker said. “So thank you for the upgrade.
An aerial shot before the performance showed a young woman striding toward the courts on a horse, in a nod to the Compton Cowboys. Beyonce’s band, all decked out in monochrome tennis ball yellow, interpolated the synth riff of another Compton classic, Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”; before launching into the triumphant song, in which Beyonce sang amidst a group of dancers: “Look how we’ve been fighting to stay alive / So when we win we will have pride.
Hall, not to be outdone, was given a couple minutes to shamelessly hit on several of Hollywood’s leading men–including Simu Liu and Timothee Chalamet–under the guise of giving out COVID tests. “Take your masks off…and your clothes,” she told them.Frequently throughout the broadcast, the Oscars cut to speeches for awards given out before the Academy Awards broadcast. Yet the “live” chyron remained throughout those speeches, as if they were happening in real-time.
power trio of Rosie Perez, Wesley Snipes, and Woody Harrelson delivered a shaggy and joyful routine, with Perez playfully barking at Snipes for botching a cue. Harrelson, after joking he hasn’t been sober ever at these awards shows, cracked that he’s been nominated three times and yet was speaking on stage for the first time as a presenter.
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