Our Immediate Reactions To The 96th Academy Awards

[00:00:00] And the Oscar goes to-

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[00:00:37] Passing you a...

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[00:00:40] They could only kill me with a golden bullet!

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[00:00:43] I'll be Mr. Tears!

[00:00:45] I'm gonna make them an offer, Captain.

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[00:00:49] I ate his misery.

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[00:01:04] Welcome to the next Best Picture Podcast.

[00:01:08] And Maria is the Oppenheimer.

[00:01:13] Hello and welcome to the next Best Picture Podcast.

[00:01:16] I'm your host Matt Neglia.

[00:01:18] The time of recording is 7.33 am on March 11th, 2024,

[00:01:24] or the day after the Oscars.

[00:01:27] We were not recording this immediately after the Oscars.

[00:01:31] Instead we have a never batch of MVP members who recorded their bits immediately right after the Oscars last night.

[00:01:37] I'm going to somehow edit my reactions along with Cody Derrick's and Will Mavity here, along with that of a group.

[00:01:45] And hopefully you can hear different perspectives on last night's Oscar winners.

[00:01:50] So without any further ado, I have joining me Will Mavity.

[00:01:53] I see a primer!

[00:01:56] And we also have Cody Derrick's.

[00:01:59] Oh boy, okay, hi.

[00:02:01] That's going to be the most iconic MVP show opening I think that we've had yet.

[00:02:06] Don't you think?

[00:02:07] Matt, I love how many people urgently were like, what is Mackin' to do?

[00:02:11] They're intro.

[00:02:13] I couldn't, I literally could not understand what he said.

[00:02:18] I mean, I heard Oppenheimer in there, but I had to see people tweeting that he even said my eyes see Oppenheimer

[00:02:25] and like listen to it a couple times so I could even make that out.

[00:02:28] Like it was the most...

[00:02:30] Old senile drunk?

[00:02:34] I don't know, but yeah, that was an announcement for the ages.

[00:02:39] Hey everyone, this is Daniel Howett.

[00:02:41] You already heard from Matt.

[00:02:43] We're right here after the 96th Academy Awards.

[00:02:46] It's 7.41pm Pacific time.

[00:02:50] And we're here to give you our immediate reactions and thoughts

[00:02:54] right after the show.

[00:02:56] I am here with Alyssa Christian.

[00:02:59] Hello everyone.

[00:03:01] And in my ass assing.

[00:03:03] Hello.

[00:03:04] Well, we are now removed from the 96th Academy Awards.

[00:03:08] The winners have been announced.

[00:03:10] And if you watched the BAFTAs a couple of days ago,

[00:03:14] they pretty much repeated this here at The Oscars.

[00:03:17] What we are going to do is we are going to go through the categories one by one as they happen throughout the evening.

[00:03:22] But we are also going to comment of course about the ceremony so we can give our thoughts on that.

[00:03:27] So just start things off.

[00:03:29] Not so much about the winners but just about the ceremony itself.

[00:03:31] The overall presentation how it was directed, produced and just presented to the audience.

[00:03:37] Cody will start off with you. What did you think of the show overall?

[00:03:40] Overall, I thought it moved pretty well.

[00:03:42] You know, I think the presentation for the nominees was handled about as well as you can imagine.

[00:03:47] The acting ones especially were quite good.

[00:03:49] Now remind me, did we get clips the last time we did a presentation like this or was that to be expected?

[00:03:55] No, we didn't and they didn't do it again this time either.

[00:03:58] I was a little disappointed though because they definitely had shorter nominee introductions this time around.

[00:04:05] It seems like everybody was on a mandate to have come in under a certain amount of time compared to 2009 to 2010.

[00:04:11] But even with that, we still didn't get clips.

[00:04:14] Okay, that's what I thought.

[00:04:16] I do always desire clips if nothing else just to kind of give a performance context against the other nominees.

[00:04:22] But I think the presentation as it was was pretty good.

[00:04:25] Jimmy Kimmel, I think was fine.

[00:04:28] I'm, you know, he's about the best you can hope for an Oscar host in terms of.

[00:04:32] He doesn't make me mad that he's there, but I'm never really, you know, wanting to go back to.

[00:04:38] To see what he's up to, which is true of like any host and the orange show.

[00:04:42] I kind of want them to keep it moving.

[00:04:44] I feel like some of the jokes were a little bit borderline tasteless, which I was surprised by because he's usually quite palatable.

[00:04:50] But overall, I think it was a pretty good ceremony in it moved along nicely.

[00:04:54] Yeah, just going over to Kimmel for a minute here.

[00:04:56] I think he's fine as a host and he's reliable.

[00:04:59] I did to feel that some of the jokes last night, some were landing better than others.

[00:05:03] I don't think it was his strongest monologue that he's had to do in recent memory, especially you know,

[00:05:10] I know we say this every time he's about to host and we always worry that he's going to do something like this, but he did it last night.

[00:05:16] He had to mention that kills the flower moon was so long and make a joke about it.

[00:05:22] I'm so sick and tired of making jokes about how nobody sees the movies, nobody cares about the movies just diminishing the movies.

[00:05:29] We got to stop doing that.

[00:05:31] And I was very disappointed that he did that with killers of the flower moon last night especially kind of thinking there was a possibility that heading into tonight it would maybe lose all of its Oscars.

[00:05:43] So it's like kind of kicking it while it's down sort of thing.

[00:05:46] Yeah, I thought he was better about that.

[00:05:48] He made a couple jokes like that, but I thought for the most part he was better about though nobody sees or likes the movies nominate this year.

[00:05:58] But yeah, I agree with that and I do think I don't know man.

[00:06:01] I think like I know it's fair game to maybe address Robert Downton Jr's addiction, but at the same time, man, I don't know.

[00:06:11] I give the guy a break. I thought it was kind of tasteless to make multiple Robert Downton Jr's a drug addict jokes.

[00:06:20] Right, especially on the night of his arguably the high point of his career to just be like remember the 90s when you're drug addict anyway, here's your Oscar is very you know, I think we can do better than this.

[00:06:32] Yeah, yeah, I agree.

[00:06:34] I think the production of it was pretty good overall.

[00:06:38] Obviously, the highlight is that I'm just can we were just talking about that before so.

[00:06:43] For some low lights such as I didn't think the in memoriam segment was well done and it seems like they left out some people but we'll get into that.

[00:06:50] So I think overall it was very good and a lot of my predictions were wrong, but for the most part, I'm actually kind of happy about that.

[00:06:59] I'll get into that some more.

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[00:07:51] I had a pretty good time with the show. I have to say, yes, it was definitely long. I mean what almost three and a half hours but I feel like they had some really good moments put throughout the show that really made you excited to get to the next big moment.

[00:08:10] I mean, I'm just can literally gave me 15 more years onto my life at this point.

[00:08:16] And there were definitely some surprises.

[00:08:21] I'm happy that I was wrong in some category.

[00:08:25] Sad I was wrong in some others, but that's okay. There's always there's always good moments and some moments with the Oscars, but that's what makes them fun.

[00:08:35] I thought all the musical performances were absolutely incredibly directed throughout the entire show.

[00:08:43] The presentation of them just from top to bottom, I was like wow, like this is really, really well done and each one felt very unique and very different overall.

[00:08:54] Like I just saw it from a presentation standpoint. The show looked beautiful and man I cannot stress enough too.

[00:09:01] Starting the show an hour earlier. It's like one of those genius ideas that you said yourself, how come nobody thought of this sooner? That was great.

[00:09:11] Yeah, I mean here in the Midwest it was wrapped by nine ish, it was amazing and I was like okay well the night is still young. I can't imagine how much partying they're about to do on the West Coast.

[00:09:22] Yeah, I was on the West Coast this year for the first time watching it and I kept thinking to myself man if I was over back in New York right now this would not be bad at all like this.

[00:09:32] This is something that I think they should just keep doing moving forward for sure, especially if the show's going to run over long you know if it ever like gets over four hours again or something like that you know it's a nice safety net I think for moving forward.

[00:09:46] Yeah, I felt like the show was middle of the road certainly nothing nothing bad at all. I don't think there was anything that stood out as as awful or terrible and other than I'm just can I also am not sure that there was much memorable about the show itself, not the winners but the production.

[00:10:04] It was just kind of there, but I'd rather have that than us you know ticked off about something like we often are after some of these shows so yeah I think it was it was a perfectly perfectly good show.

[00:10:15] Okay let's get into reactions to the winners starting off first with best supporting actress where Dave Andreou Randolph completed her sweep of the season one of the biggest overall winners I think we've ever had in an acting category.

[00:10:31] I think she might have tied key he caught on last year just in terms of overall wins, but yeah she wins for the holdovers giving a very emotional powerful speech and she ditched paper this time around which is something I know a lot of us were hoping that she would do by the time she got to this point.

[00:10:47] Man what emotion she showed that was that was powerful what do you guys think? I was sobbing my eyes out for so long. I was trying to yeah first of all that intro.

[00:10:57] I asked the format of the introductions and that they brought that back this year and one supporting actress one was like I was just already in tears listening to amazing things that everybody had to say and then just seeing divine win after an incredible season was truly the cherry on top.

[00:11:15] Yeah I mean this is just kind of the ideal Oscar speech it was emotional it was personal it was funny again there was no paper even if you haven't seen the film it's hard not to be excited for this Oscar win just based on the speech.

[00:11:28] I love to the she did not read from a prepared speech because she had been doing so it seemed like she really spoke from her heart and you know I was definitely crying at that point so that was great.

[00:11:40] Every publicist in the business is going to be asking where the hell is my shout out like divine have heard publicist usually I know you said don't shut up on publicist but I don't you don't have a goddamn publicist like I do or whatever she said was so great.

[00:11:57] I love the cutaway to Paul Giamatti with like this single tier rolling down his face to it was nice to see I think that cast genuinely cared and loved about each other and it was just you know she had a great classy speech wonderful way to open the show.

[00:12:16] Yeah how did you feel about no clips for the acting nominees well I mean I did love the presentation of you know having the five previous winners but.

[00:12:26] I mean we do miss the clips however we've all seen these movies we know what the performance are and we've seen the clips all seasons so it's not really that big of a deal.

[00:12:36] I was fine since we had the presentations I feel like one or the other otherwise we wouldn't have any longer ceremony oh yeah.

[00:12:46] Yeah I'm okay with it I liked them bringing back you know previous winners it was so funny I as you know when I think about them bring bring back old winners I think about like winners from like the 50s or something like that and then I was like wait a second like when Ben Kingsley came out later on I was like oh wait he won like 40 years ago yeah I guess that I guess that counts as an older.

[00:13:10] It's also it's also really unsettling that like Jennifer Lauren's Lupita and Nion go they won like 10 plus years ago at this point and you're like how did that happen I know yeah even when Tim Robbins came out I was like he just won why are we doing this and I was like oh wait no that was like over 20 years ago.

[00:13:30] That was a long time ago yeah.

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