Good morning. Matt Stevens, our Culture correspondent in Los Angeles, is stopping by to catch you up on all things Oscars.
Everything You Need to Know About the Oscars
Another Oscars ceremony is in the books — this one clocked in at 3 hours and 40 minutes. Maybe it’s just the caffeine from last night still talking, but I thought this was kind of a fun one! Big names won. Some history was made. And yes, we got a performance of “Golden.”
Things went mostly as projectionists expected: “One Battle After Another” was the big winner, taking home six Academy Awards, including the one for best picture. (Congratulations, finally, to Paul Thomas Anderson.) But “Sinners” competed hard, picking up four Oscars of its own, including wins for Ryan Coogler’s original screenplay and Michael B. Jordan as lead actor. Anderson was among the winners who used some of their stage time to touch on politics and what feels like the fragile state of things in this moment. “I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world — we’re handing off to them,” Anderson said from the stage while accepting his screenplay award. “But also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency.” My colleagues and I spent last night blogging the results live (with fun commentary!). Take a look and catch up.
We put them all in one place for you here. A couple more highlights:
Outside of the awards themselves, it was a tough night for all forms of futuristic technology that could impact moviemaking and moviegoing. The show’s host, Conan O’Brien, took shots at Netflix, Amazon, vertical videos and movies that repeat the plot to aid inattentive audiences (*cough* Netflix again *cough*). There was also an extended, heartfelt “In Memoriam” segment in which Billy Crystal paid tribute to his friends Rob and Michele Singer Reiner and Barbra Streisand came onstage to offer a remembrance of Robert Redford. And then there’s my personal worst: They brutally cut off the team that made the hit song “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” as one member tried to make his acceptance speech. Read the rest of our best/worst list here.
Even before any trophies were given out, our Styles team was hard at work on the red carpet. This is one area I’d better leave to the experts. But I will say, Buddy Guy’s overalls are … something! We’ve collected 17 unforgettable looks from the Oscars here. Until next year! Other California news
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