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Last night.

Ireland-born Eimear Noone becomes the first woman to conduct at the Oscar ceremony.

Meanwhile…

Then, the trio introduced Eimear Noone, the first woman conductor at the Oscars, who—in a horrifying move that surely wasn’t Noone’s choice—only led the orchestra for the Best Original Score nominees, and nothing else for any other part of the ceremony. It was a clear instance of tokenism: as long as we can see her, she can conduct.

The 2020 Oscars’ Most Cringeworthy Moment Came Courtesy of Sigourney Weaver, Brie Larson and Gal Gadot (Daily Beast)

The votes are in.

Last week, with TWO free passes to any ODEON cinema during awards season on offer, we asked you to name the worst Best Film Oscar winner.

You answered in your tens.

But there could be only two winners.Runners up

Jonboy:’ Driving Miss Daisy (1989) was terrible sentimental garbage but the bigger crime is that Born On The Fourth of July was nominated the same year. Bonus terrible decision, Do the Right Thing wasn’t even nominated that year.’

Con Kennedy: ‘Birdman (2014). Jesus! Sad retired batman!I gave up on it!’

Daisy Chainsaw: ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). 87 hours of my life I’m never getting back. The bird couldn’t have dropped the ring into the volcano during the first film?’

Fluffybiscuits: ‘In 1984 Amadeus beat The Killing Fields . A movie about a rival composers with ham-fisted and camp acting beat a movie that laid bare the torment of the victims of the Khmer Rouge. The latter film made me cry at 19 years of age and again as I saw it years later.’

Louis Le Fronde: ‘Titanic (1997)….Do I even need to explain why? I watched it once in the Savoy, and that was enough! L.A. Confidential should have won.’

Axelf: ‘Has to be Shiteanic. dear god its so bad i was cheering for the iceberg.’

Jeremy Kyle: ‘Has to be Crash (2004). Sandra Bullock plays a racist, but then she falls down the stairs and stops being a racist.

Col: ‘Wings, 1927. Nobody says a word throughout the whole thing.’

 

Winners:

The Old Boy: ‘How Green Was My Valley (1941) – Hokey, maudlin, cloyingly sentimental and containing some of the most atrocious Welsh accents ever committed to celluloid, not to mention the fact that it beat The Maltese Falcon and, er, Citizen Kane.’

class wario: ‘Green Book (2018). A story full of potential reduced down to a tonally all over the place, often totally saccharine, piece of totally harmless cinema. The whole thing feels like a reskinned buddy cop film at times. The two main characters do what they can with what they’re given and it’s hard not to enjoy it on some level but so much wasted potential. It’s not a great sign when the superhero movie nominated the same year takes a more complex look at racial politics in the US!’

Thanks all.

Last week: The Envelope Please

Limitless Card (ODEON)

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Last night.

Oscar winners, from top: Green Book (Best Film): Alfonso Cuarón (best Director – Roma); Olivia Coleman (Best Actress – The Favourite); Rami Malek (Best Actor- Bohemian Rhapsody)

Oscar 2019: Complete Winners List (Hollywood Reporter)

Meanwhile..

Pop singer Billy Porter arrives in a tuxedo ball gown.

As he is perfectly entitled to do.

Pics: Getty Images/AP

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Alternatively…

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All the noms in ONE place..

Ronan Kealy writes:

I’m a bit of movie buff and enjoy doing some video editing now and again on the side. I have just created an Oscar montage of all the movies nominated in all of the categories (except Docs/Foreign and Short Film – I was under time constraints ) for this year’s awards. I just thought it would be something fun and relevant. It ends with the titles of each of the Best Picture Nominees ( 9 in total)….

In fairness.

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The 2016 Oscar winning live action short film by Irish writer/director Benjamin Cleary – now available to view online in its entirety courtesy of the New Yorker.

Thirteen minutes well spent (if, God forbid, you’re using a regional masking browser plugin), to wit:

…a young London typographer named Greenwood (Matthew Needham) stutters to the extent that verbal conversation is difficult. When he tries to resolve an issue with a service representative over the phone, he can’t get the words out; the operator, gruff and impatient, hangs up. (For surliness, she rivals the operator in the old Yaz song.) When a woman approaches Greenwood on the street, he uses sign language to avoid talking. But in his thoughts, which we hear, he does not stutter.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKCSErI3WY

Dublin-born director  Benjamin Cleary winning Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for for Stutterer – his first film – at the Academy Awards last night.

Oscars for Brie Larson in Emma O’Donoghue’s Room, and for Benjamin Cleary’s Stutterer (breakingnews)

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Trailer for Stutterer (2015).

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Lenny Abrahamson at the IFTAs in 2013

Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, February 28 – in which Dublin’s Lenny Abrahamson is up for Best Director ‘gong’ for Room…

Sarah Neville, of RTÉ, writes:

“Starting on Sunday, February 14, RTÉ2 will broadcast What Richard Did, which fast-tracked the career of actor Jack Reynor and who has since starred in the Transformers franchise. The season continues on Saturday, February 20, with Garage, starring Pat Shortt. Then the much-loved Adam and Paul will air after coverage of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony on Monday, February 29, on RTÉ2.”

Previously: Wilde About Lenny

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Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Abrahamson, the Academy Award-nominated director of ROOM, will be honored at the Oscar Wilde Awards on 25 February. The US-Ireland Alliance event is held at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company in Santa Monica.

Also being honored are Irish actress Sarah Greene, Snow Patrol, James Corden and Daisy Ridley, the star of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Abrams will emcee. Snow Patrol and up-and-coming Irish singer, Roísín O, will perform.

Oscar nominee Lenny Abrahamson to be honored at Oscar Wilde Awards

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