Links: Oscar Goodies Elsewhere
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:00PM Tom & Lorenzo Janelle Monáe owns everything and wore it all out last night
Vulture theories on why Moonlight won
AV Club "Why does Nicole Kidman clap like that and will she stop it please?" LOL
Deadline Iran and France praise Asghar Farhadi's Oscar win
The Hill the State department does too but then quickly deletes the tweet
Out Michael Musto on queer moments from the broadcast and Brokeback payback
Vanity Fair fashion transformations from the Oscars to the after parties
Oscar Snafus
HuffPo This is interesting. Turns out HuffPo posted an article BEFORE the Oscars about what would happen if the wrong winner was read out on Oscar night and the procedure that would follow. Not everything lines up with what happened Sunday
Slate reviews the tape to illustrated what happened when during the Best Picture mix-up which is what I said I wanted done but knew I didn't have the strength to do (in this piece on the Oscar's own dream ballet)
Variety the other snafu at the Oscars during "In Memorium". Whod'a thunk that The Piano (1993) woud resurface in a huge gaffe kind of way with Oscar mixing up its producer Jan Chapman and its Costume Designer Janet Patterson?
Exit Trivia
Thanks to THR's Scott Feinberg for uncovering this. The La La Land / Moonlight envelope fiasco was the second time in history that this happened. The first was for the 1963 Oscars when eventual Best Picture winner Tom Jones was named as the Best Original Score winner. But the winner was actually Andre Previn for Irma La Douce. Sammy Davis Jr handled it well, you must admit.
In related news that proposed upcoming Sammy Davis Jr biopic could be so great. The career, cast of characters, and context in which it happened is so rich for storytelling. Let's hope they cast, write, and direct it well.
Reader Comments (11)
My theory is that Nicole doesn't want to ruin her manicure. #chipproof
It was the accounts mistake but, really, how hard it was for Warren Beatty to say something along the lines of - " I think this is the wrong envelope" ??? It did make for great TV and history ( and it will be still mentioned 100 years from now ) but I am so sorry for the Moonlight team to not have the occasion to properly celebrate. At the Oscar party at my house people have already started leaving when the mistake was corrected and I was the only one predicting Moonlight! So I took it personally :-)
Nicole has big ass grinch fingers
But , really, that's what you want from an Academy Awards Show! In the absence of a win for Isabelle Hupert, that was the next best thing ! :-)
I guess it's because I dislike Nicole Kidman that no one here reads my posts. I pointed out, in the comments on this site in your first post-Oscar write-up, that a somewhat similar envelope mishap had occurred during the 1963 Oscars. Anyway, your current write-up has it wrong.
"Thanks to THR's Scott Feinberg for uncovering this. The La La Land / Moonlight envelope fiasco was the second time in history that this happened. The first was for the 1963 Oscars when eventual Best Picture winner Tom Jones was named as the Best Original Score winner. But the winner was actually Andre Previn for Irma La Douce. Sammy Davis Jr handled it well, you must admit."
Tom Jones DID win Best Original Score but it was announced as the winner of the Best Adapted Score, for which it wasn't even nominated. Watch the video. Andre Previn won Adapted for Irma La Douce.
Nicole had a big ass ring on that looked like it was slipping off. Clapping may have been uncomfortable for her.
I saw it, RJL, and went to the YouTube video too. Pretty amazing!
The Actress' Post Win Dresses were so very Office Party!
Poor Jan Chapman. The news crews were waiting for her yesterday. She didn't talk to them. She looked very sad.
"Nicole has big ass grinch fingers" I lol'd. TRUE. But beautiful grinch fingers.
Whatever Nicole's doing Octavia is into it.
For real, there are tweets from people commenting on her clapping from literally years ago. She wears big rings that she no doubt doesn't want to scratch.