 Hey everyone, this is Jack. I hope you're all doing well as is I guess tradition at this point because it's the second year in a Row, I've done it I wanted to make a video in which I talk about the Oscars talk about some of the things I like what I don't like what I'm rooting for and overall my thoughts on the 2019 Academy Awards, so I guess just to begin I wanted to give a huge thank you to the synagogue for sending me the t-shirt They run a great Twitter account. They also have their own website in their own shop I currently think this shirt is actually sold out, but they'll have new designs soon And I will definitely be taking a look at that and I would highly encourage you to do the same But in terms of overall the Oscars, I kind of decided to do this video again Before the whole controversy came out where they were cutting out cinematography and editing and some other pretty big categories from the actual broadcast itself and we're gonna do those during commercial breaks and At least for my money that is absurd Forget about like the categories itself We're in like the digital age where everything can be live streamed everything can be put online and yet that's where we're cutting out corners So it just seems pretty silly to me and I'm glad that they reverted back onto that truth be told I think that was a pretty smart marketing ploy by the Academy. I think they got enough attention to I Guess warrant You know we was warrant doing it they obviously went back and Got the discussion out there, which is I guess all that they were looking for But honestly the Academy award viewership has been going down considerably in the past couple of years Personally, I don't even watch it myself. I just get the little updates as they come so and so on this so and so on that Which I think is probably the easiest way to watch it because the actual broadcast itself has never been a Huge thing for me. I know that it's become a part of our culture at this point But honestly watching like the first hour whenever it ends up being it was like the red carpet and all that nonsense That has zero appeal to me Then you actually get the award show itself and you usually get a comedian who I'm not too fond of Doing their thing. It's just not my cup of tea the actual broadcast itself And especially now that we do live in that digital age where all the information is just available in the heartbeat and much rather get the information on my own as opposed to watching a three-hour broadcast that Probably isn't going to mean a whole lot to me So I understand why the Academy is trying to shift some things up to try and get that viewership back But honestly, it seems like they're pursuing a 20th century Approach to getting that viewership back when going online making things digital making more content out there for more people It's probably going to be the best approach But that's just my opinion on the whole Academy Awards controversy because I'm sure some people are interested I probably won't be watching. I'll probably be doing something else and getting updates And learning from that so anyway in terms of the actual content of the Oscars moving away from that But therefore awarding the best films of the year truth be told I'm really not too happy with a lot of the nominations that came out last year I thought they did an excellent job just getting the best movies of the year I feel like you could have really gone through and picked any of the films that were nominated for best picture and make a really good Argument for that being the best movie of the year But if you look at the films that are nominated this year, there are a handful that I absolutely love be it The favorite Rome or just all these great movies, then you get movies like Green Book, which I Just don't see people making an argument that Green Book is the best movie of the year But you know I it was fine, but just not that great So anyway that that I'm not too happy with a lot of the nominations a lot of the movies that I'm written for for All the categories are going to be one in the same. There's certainly a lot of overlap between Roma The favorite my favorite movie of the year even Black Clansman. I especially loved So anyway, so definitely some good movies and I'm glad that they are getting the recognition But I feel like they were just a lot more great movies that didn't get the recognition They probably should have I've spoken about how much I love widows a fair bit and It seems like the When you're Steve McQueen in your most recent film one best picture in 2013 or 2014 hour that works out and then Widows doesn't get nominated. It just seems like I Is widows a better movie than Green Book for my money it is but I don't mean to just pick on Green Book There are several movies that you are nominated for best picture that I feel like maybe that didn't deserve that award, but Anyway enough rambling About that let's kind of go through category by category what I'm rooting for Kind of who I think is gonna win and what I think that means starting off with best picture So personally I'm rooting for the favorite for best picture. I do think Roma is going to win Which I'm super happy with Alfonso Coran is excellent I've discussed a handful of his films in the past and I love pretty much each and every one of them Wasn't too big on gravity though, but excuse me Roma is definitely one of his films that I love and I will definitely be happy if that wins best picture if Black and white foreign language film wins best picture. I think that'll be pretty cool and going forward Ideally trying to get more movies like that in the discussion You don't necessarily need to be these big moving Whatever movies they just have to be good movies and as far as I'm concerned Roma is definitely one of the best films of the year and That'd be spectacular for it to be winning and absolutely deserving The category that I care the next most about is best director I feel like that's probably the second most important category. It's out of best picture and again, I think I'm at this point rooting for Lathi most to win just because I love him his work so much all of it a Huge fan of his stuff as I've mentioned before Again, I think Alfonso Coran is probably gonna take it I think he's the odds favorite if you're doing sports betting on the Oscars I find that pretty funny, but I definitely think he's favored to win and might definitely be happy with that He's had success in the past obviously and for good reason. He's one of the best directors working today and Would love to see him find success. I don't see Any of the other nominated director is winning, but that's just for me in terms of the best actor actress awards. I Don't I don't think I'm the best judge of a great performance. I think it's just kind of The discussion around it is 80% of what wins the best actor best actress awards because it's so versatile It's not like there's an objective best performance Some years are just some there's so much better than the competition There are a whole lot of different intricacies and different subtleties and it's all about Giving a performance that people are looking for so in terms of who I'm rooting for Kind of up in the air at this point. Don't really don't really hear about who wins Those awards, but definitely is an important part of the Oscars and I think Christian Bale is going to take the best actor Award I feel like he's definitely probably the most deserving of the others However, I do think that Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody is definitely gonna be in that conversation, but I wasn't the biggest fan of that movie He was good, but it just felt way too formulated and just too Too much I'm not studio influence, but I guess banned influence. I was reading about how the editing was super impacted by Contracts and how the different band members required a certain amount of screen time and it's 100% not 100% quite a bit of this film is being Dictated by an external force that the creative people behind the film have no impact on obviously There's a little contract director controversy with the film, but getting a little bit went long-winded here In terms of best actress in a leading role The Roma actress, I hope she gets it. She was absolutely spectacular She definitely was just so commanding and so powerful and especially with such a limited Just limited acting it was amazing how well she captured reality So I'm definitely hoping that she takes it. I would not mind if Olivia Coleman took it from the favorite I thought she was excellent and just made that movie so much fun So you can 100% see my bias in these so far, but Yeah, I'm not too concerned about the actor-actress awards I definitely am interested in cinematography and again, it's a toss-up between Roma and the favorite for me So you can definitely see that trend. I thought the cinematography of the favorite inched out by a little bit you can certainly make the argument for either one of them, but Cinematography of the favorite just added so much to it It was this is that zany world and the match with the zany cinematography It worked for me And that's probably who I'm rooting for to win cinematography, but if Roma takes it, I would definitely will not be disappointed Moving on to editing I already discussed that a little bit the fact that Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for best editing is Just so weird. You can watch the clips. It's not a well-edited movie It's at best it's generic bland nothing creative at worst it's bad editing and Somehow that's not made for best editing so that it was a bit confusing for me Like I said, the Oscars are certainly a flawed thing, but definitely an important part of movie history So what can you do not a whole lot? So in terms of who I'm rooting for for best editing it's either gonna come down to vice or the favorite I thought I feel mostly just so creative and the entire editing team behind the favorites Just so creative and used it so well to help tell its story at the same time I really like the pseudo documentary editing style of vice It was definitely similar to the big short and I love the big short So definitely an interesting editing approach and if it ends up winning I feel like it's definitely deserved I feel like everything is deserved, especially when you compare it to Bohemian Rhapsody winning So anything but Bohemian Rhapsody for best editing and I will not be that disappointed As for the two screenplays personally for Adapted I'm gonna be rooting for if Beale Street could talk by Barry Jenkins again The fact that that movie didn't get more recognition much like widows. It's a bit weird to me it seems like the movie that should have gotten a lot of recognition, especially when compared to other movies that did but It was so well-written so well done And I'm definitely rooting for Barry Jenkins to win that award for best original screenplay Guess what I'm gonna say the favorite. I hope it wins I'm planning on talking about it next video So you can see my excitement as I'm doing my research and getting all that in so but the favorite for best original screenplay I think it's the best deserving and That is my hope so as much as I would love to talk about different things like best documentary Best foreign language film about best animated short best short best animated all that stuff I really can't say that I've seen enough of them and definitely want to make an Informed discussion of the topic. So I'm not gonna go through those categories As I see more I'll definitely be watching the winner of those categories because I generally feel like the Academy does a pretty good job Recognizing that in terms of best animated film I think I've seen most of them and I'm rooting for Isle of Dogs. Wesley Anderson is spectacular and Isle of Dogs is no exception I did see the animated Spider-Man movie and I liked it, but I loved Isle of Dogs I feel like it was just so Just the more more passion was put into it and a lot of passion felt was put into Spider-Man. So That's where I'm coming from on this issue and a quick little promotion here There's a t-shirt and mug shop in the description. Check it out if you're interested But Moving on to the other important categories for best supporting actress I'm personally rooting for Emma Stone the two supporting actresses from the favorite are up and as far as I'm concerned They were the two best supporting actress performances of the year I do know that Often having two people nominated from the same film kind of splits the thing You saw that with like the godfather had there were a half dozen people nominate some exaggeration Quite a few people from the godfather nominated for best supporting actor which meant That Al Pacino didn't end up winning even though he probably did give the best because it was the votes were split for the Godfather supporting actors if that makes sense. So I'm hoping one of them takes it At the same time a lot of other great supporting actress performances of the year So won't be disappointed no matter who wins that award And then for actor in a supporting role Mahershala Ali is excellent. He's one of my favorite actors Just an amazing person who's on a whole lot of charity. He actually Went to college close to where I grew up grew up so go Gales if Go Gales. So I'm rooting for him I also thought he was the best part of Green Book and would love to see him take something And then for a lot of the more costume and Production design I feel like Black Panther deserves a lot of those awards. I feel like it created such an immersive world And that that in large part came down to costume and production and set design and all the small things that Are important but don't get as much recognition because there is bigger things The stuff that's not exclusive to filmmaking like a cinematography and editing are 100% exclusive to filmmaking There's something like costume design. A lot of that can be applied to different mediums. So You feel that those are kind of harder to quantify and justify almost that makes sense Perhaps why they don't get as much recognition but Yeah, I definitely feel like Black Panther deserves to take a lot of those just created that immersive world And I know that especially towards the end. There's some wonkyo CG I'm not saying that the special effects award should necessarily go to Black Panther. I haven't seen enough the special effects driven movies to Really make up my mind on that but don't really care about that either if I'm being honest So that's where I am on a lot of the major issues A lot of the major categories. I'm interested in what you have to say. So please drop a comment. Let me know Yeah, and if you're interested in the style of video or just me talking got my list here going through some of the major categories of Yes, I'm the major categories of what's been nominated So if you're interested in seeing more of that, please let me know and let me know what you think of the Oscars as a whole Like I said, I'm pretty sure that was a marketing move to Decide not to show some most important categories during the actual broadcast itself And that was just them trying to be clever. So I don't know what can you do? I won't be watching tomorrow, but I'll be following the updates and written for my movies to do well so that's my level of investment with the Oscars and Yeah, but I definitely didn't want to get this video because Here we go in a little bit of a tangent about the Oscars Because they've been around for so long and because They are a pretty good measure of quality of the film Obviously, you can find the years where they got this wrong and they're gonna be a lot Especially when you look at like retrospect now cultures change and how we view movies in the present as opposed to the past It makes sense that you can point out a lot of problems with the Oscars when you look back They've done a they've got a pretty good trajectory of Getting at least one of the best movies of the year Correct You can always make the argument that this is the movie that should have won this year And you go back in some notoriously bad ones like when saving private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in love That's just inexcusable if I'm being honest, but They do you can point out the bad years and you're gonna find all the top 10 Times the Oscars messed up, but honestly There are a lot of times where they got the right one. Correct. I feel like last year at the shape of water Um, I think year before that was moonlight slash la la land Both of those deserved it in my opinion. So you can definitely go back and find um Times when they did it right in times where it was effectively done so Like on one hand, I appreciate the Oscars is that at the same time The the the live broadcast itself is just not my cup of tea and I like movies about as much as you can like movies. So, um I don't know. I feel like they need to kind of like rework some of that to get it as entertaining as possible at this like if it was just Going through this category this category this category this category just going through every award I didn't enjoy it a lot more, but the live performances and all the stuff on the red carpet and the fashion It's just not my cup of tea and I feel like they were trying to just combine Different audience demographics or the people who love movies makes people who love this aspect and just combining them all together in the live performances and it's Bringing different people together in an individual age where there's so much Information and so much content available out there. That just isn't going to cut it these days. So that's my general opinion on the Oscars Yeah, I'm also Like without getting into like any like political discussion. I'll just be very nature of like making Something that should be like that history of movies is based on the Oscar not based on yeah But it's the Oscars are a significant part of the history of movies. You look back And then you get all these important Like dates in cinema history comes from the Oscars and you look at something like people trying to like politicize and Don't start a discussion of left versus right or anything in that and especially when you look at just American politics It's in four years from now. This isn't going to be relevant But the movie that won best picture that year is so kind of focus on the stuff that's going to be relevant in the future That's my opinion. There are other Areas to discuss politics and I don't anyway getting all ranty here drop a comment Let me know your thoughts on the Oscars and the debacle and what you're hoping to win and all that good stuff If you want to see more, please hit that subscribe button Yeah, new video on the favorite got Excited to talk about that. I'm very excited to talk about that Until then my last video is going to be over here, which I looked at one flew the cuckoo's nest unintentionally About a film that won best picture the day before the Oscars I released that so there's that and also down here is a t-shirt And mug thing so get yourself a mug and a patreon is going to put a link to that right there. So anyway, thank you for watching and we'll see you Two weeks from now