Bonus post-Oscars banter 2019

The Business

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Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Without a host, the night moved right along but then, it came to best picture. How did it come to be that Julia Roberts was announcing 'Green Book' as the winner when the film had endured scandal after scandal? Scott Feinberg explains what makes the ballot for best picture different from all the other categories. And the other takeaway? The Academy is not the same as "film Twitter"--far from it, in this case!

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0:00.0	I amy joined by my special guest
0:03.1	where they can't hurt us
0:05.6	We're far from Michigan
0:07.5	Now
0:09.8	I am joined by my special guest banterer, Scott Feinberg
0:17.6	Awards columnist at the Hollywood Reporter
0:19.4	and host of the podcast Awards Chatter.
0:23.2	Hello, Scott.
0:24.0	Hey, Kim.
0:24.4	Thanks for having me.
0:25.2	We were just coming in on the, what I think is possibly the most, well, it was a night full of memorable moments, but certainly the Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper duet.
0:35.2	That was a moment.
0:36.4	I don't know.
0:37.2	You were in the room. I was in my home,
0:40.2	happily, but my feed went on for hours about the chemistry between those two and that performance.
0:47.5	Yeah, I think it was one of the beneficiaries of the new format of trying to make the Oscars a little
0:53.0	leaner than they've been in past years.
0:54.5	They just weren't even announced, walked right up from their seats to the stage.
0:58.4	And, you know, very gallantly, he was escorting her up there.
1:02.4	And then, you know, it took guts to do it.
1:04.2	He's not known as a singer.
1:06.1	And yet he did it live, which even singers are sometimes scared to do on the Oscars.
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