Of course I don’t watch the Academy Awards, but I posted a review of Poor Things and noticed that the awards show was scheduled for later in the day. 

Emma Stone won Best Actress for her part in Poor Things.  She had to act like something that didn’t exist.  She did it convincingly.  She completely sold the performance.  That seems much more difficult than acting like a particular person or type of person. 

For instance, Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress for her part in The Holdovers.  She acted like the fat, Black ladies who used to serve at the cafeterias at Ohio State.  Da’Vine had some extra dramatic work that she did convincingly.  I really enjoyed The Holdovers.  It was a subtle movie, but very relatable.  It was nominated, but didn’t win, for Best Original Screenplay.

Poor Things also won Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Costume Design.  Those are all aspects that go into making a unique and plausible world.  It’s much more difficult when it’s a fantasy world.  

Oppenheimer won a bunch of awards.  I liked it well enough, but I’m more interested in the physicists of era, and they weren’t very prominent in the film.

Godzilla Minus One  was awarded the prize for Best Visual Effects.  I’m happy for them.  I haven’t seen it yet, but many people are impressed with the film and it only cost $15 million to make.  Domestically, it’s made $56 million.  That should be wake up call for Disney who spend 30 times that much on big franchise films, but only sell two or three times more tickets.