Best Actor Goes to Who??? The Winners, Losers, and WTFs of the Academy Awards.
The Big Picture
The Ringer
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🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:23.0 | I'm Sean Fennese. I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the big picture, a conversation show about the 93rd Academy Awards. |
| 0:36.0 | It happened inside the cozy confines of Los Angeles' Union Station. Hollywood's biggest night went off. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, it went off with a hitch actually. It happened in person and we're going to talk about that right now on the big picture. |
| 0:49.0 | Amanda, we were having what seemed like a unique, calm, normal award show. |
| 0:55.0 | We things were sort of getting back to normal and then some wildness happened at the end of this show. |
| 1:01.0 | For starters, best picture was presented with 20 minutes left in the award show. Here's what I thought to myself. |
| 1:07.0 | What the fuck is happening right now? Because I've never seen this before. |
| 1:10.0 | Steven Soderberg as one of the producers is prone to making unique decisions as a creator and so I rolled with it. Then we got best actress. Very exciting. |
| 1:19.0 | Frances McDormand-Wan, I predicted that correctly. That was a sweet moment. And then we got best actor. |
| 1:24.0 | Who came out but Joaquin Phoenix, the winner of best actor last year to present the best actor award? |
| 1:30.0 | Now we have been talking for months about the expectation that Chadwick Boseman was going to win this award posthumously. |
| 1:37.0 | And then what happened? Anthony Hopkins won best actor for the father. |
| 1:41.0 | Anthony Hopkins, who did not attend the Oscars and did not attend any of the satellite spaces. |
| 1:46.0 | So this show ended basically on a freeze frame of a photo of Anthony Hopkins. And boy, that was not ideal. |
| 1:53.0 | That was not an ideal ending to this award show. I think we're both a little bit on board by it, frankly, |
| 1:57.0 | because not only were we not expecting it, but it seems I have to assume that the producers of this show were not expecting that. |
| 2:03.0 | So when best picture came up with two awards left with best actor and best actress still left. |
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