My detailed expert analysis of the Academy Awards presentation show:
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\nFirst off, did anyone else think it was strange that the best picture award was announced while the best director winner was barely off stage, and without any of the usual stuff that goes along with any given award happening first? Like a commercial, a wind up, a celebrity announcer, etc.? Was this the people who run “The Oscars” (as in the TV show) being pissed at the people who run “The Academy” for upping the number of Best Pic nominations from five to 10?<\/p>\n
I had been thinking lately about the fact that there are very very few female movie directors and, at the time I was thinking about this, zero had won the Best Director award. With The Hurt Locker winning both best director and best picture (and 4 other awards) that changes, statistically, a tiny bit. That signals change, but a lot of other things have signaled change in the base and not much change happened.<\/p>\n
Support your local female movie director.<\/p>\n
I thought I saw “A Kanye Moment at the Oscars” last night but wasn’t sure, but now it is confirmed by this brief report<\/a> which includes very interesting details. It did look to me like Colonial White Privilege and it turns out it may well have been.<\/p>\n