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"This is how you perform a nominated song at the Oscars that dares to be fun."
"So to commemorate the insanity that was the 2022 Oscars, we're going back to one of Will Smith's earliest defining film roles."
"Meryl Streep holds a special place in pop culture with three Oscar wins and 21 Oscar nominations under her belt, she's the most nominated actor ever by far."
"The red carpet Oscars fashion show is usually way more interesting when you're watching the women's gowns rather than the different celebrities' tuxes."
"When the #Oscars-so-white hashtag took off in 2015, it drew attention to the larger conversation around whose stories get told and recognized."
"In 2016 the nominations came out and again there were no people of color in any of the acting categories."
"Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather to bring attention to the occupation at Wounded Knee and to protest the way American Indians were being depicted on screen."
"The Oscars are a fantastic opportunity to spark a discussion about the artistry of filmmaking."
"The Oscars loves nothing more than awarding biopics."
"Joaquin Phoenix's performance was easily Oscar-worthy."
"Parasite won four Oscars, including Best Picture, making it the first non-English language film to win the coveted prize."
"The Oscars used to be a major cultural event... now it's like a nothing, a blip."
"That golden Oscar, no matter how many people watch, is still the ultimate prize."
"In true Joe Pesci fashion, when his name was announced, he walked up on that stage and gave one of the shortest Oscar acceptance speeches ever."
"Solar energy is one of the fastest growing industries out there right now and it's quickly transforming our energy infrastructure."
"This year’s irreverent, jaded, and yes, boring Oscars, sounded like the official death knell for American cinema."
"Moonlight broke down several barriers, including at the Oscars where it won Best Picture."
"The Oscars used to be a sort of cultural totem for the United States."
"It seems the Academy is getting desperate, especially since the 2018 Oscars received the lowest ratings yet."
"It's clear that Ariana DeBose should be the next host of the Oscars."
"As far as the Oscars are concerned, biopics are useful in that it is much, much easier to measure an actor's effort and attention to detail when the performance has a metric for comparison."
"Two-time visual effects Oscar winner George Gibbs designed the Thieves Guild maze."
"I think most of them are here to find out more about Star Wars. Daisy Ridley's talking about it."
"Gregory Peck lobbied for The Jungle Book to be nominated for Best Picture."
"Batman was the first comic book movie to win a competitive Oscar."
"I think the Oscars need to learn from previous experience."
"I get why they picked it, but I'll just say this: if 'Oppenheimer' wins for Best Picture at the Oscars, do you know who accepts the award? Is Christopher Nolan's wife."
"A part of me is a little disappointed that I didn't get to trash another [ __ ] show on the same level as last year's Oscars but if I'm being honest I would take a show like this every year if I could."
"The Oscars are both a result of and also feed into our really messed up cultural narratives about meritocracy."
"It's still very much so one of the craziest Oscars looks I think has ever graced that red carpet."
"I just want everyone to see it, it is going to be an Oscar Contender."
"Jordan Peele is an incredibly successful sketch comedy writer and he won the Oscar for Get Out for Best Original Screenplay."
"None of us will complain if either Fassbender or DiCaprio wins."
"In 1992, Terminator 2 Judgment Day was nominated for an incredible six Academy Awards, making it the only film in the Terminator series to be nominated for an Oscar."
"Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar, was not allowed to attend the premiere because she was black."
"Edward Norton was nominated for a [] Oscar in his first [] movie. WTF!"
"The film won an Oscar in the nomination 'Best makeup and hair Styling'."
"In 2017, the Oscars had one of their worst blunders to date when the Oscar award for best picture temporarily went to the wrong film."
"Ford V Ferrari should have gotten more Oscar love."
"This movie was actually nominated for Best Picture."
"Has come out a movie that we have heard Kevin Feige kind of maybe whispering Best Picture nomination aspirations."
"On Oscar night 1969, Ruth won and gave one of the best Oscar speeches of all time."
"But it's important to note that the Oscars have marketed themselves in such a way that they make themselves matter."
"Even if Chicken Run didn't get nominated at the Oscars, the movie was popular amongst the members of the Academy and they decided for next year to create a new category known as Best Animated Feature."
"We're really used to not seeing these incredible anime movies, that are put together, being recognized at all at the Oscars."
"CU is absolutely brilliant. It deserves to be India's submission to the Oscars."
"Highest grossing movie that has won best picture at the Oscars: Titanic."
"Black Panther won three Oscars. That's awesome."
"Thank you, great honor. We never write to represent our countries, but this is very first Oscar to South Korea. Thank You."
"That was one of those spontaneous Oscar moments that you get when you actually let your winners speak."
"Just shake it off laugh and just calm down and now you're glamor Queens who have just won Oscars all every one of you how fantastic."
"It's the only Terminator film to be nominated for Oscars, it won for the six it was up for."
"I saw a movie today that I think is gonna sweep the Oscars next year."
"I think it was also wrong to have an Oscar still white."
"Viola Davis would have won the Oscar for fences in lead actress."
"One of the best acting Oscar Winds of the 21st century."
"Shrek was their first movie to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, beating rival Pixar's film 'Monsters, Inc.'"
"Last night was the Oscars now I have said for a very long time the Oscars are my second favorite day of the year the only day of the year that is more favorite of mine is Christmas Day."
"This will be his Oscar win, I think he's going to win an Oscar for this movie."
"When adjusted for inflation Star Wars is the second highest-grossing film in North America and the fourth highest-grossing film in the world, it received 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture winning 7."
"I think it's also this idea it probably stems back to like the oscars or whatever where it's like comedies aren't nominated that much or hardly at all. I don't like this notion that drama is superior that it's harder to do drama. I don't think that's true."
"Lupita should have gotten an Oscar nomination at least for her performance in 'Us' because her performance was outstanding."
"It still bums me out all these months later that Bones and All also did not get into the Oscars in any categories I loved that film."
"It is still mind-boggling to me that she wasn't even nominated for the Oscar that is so crazy it is absurd it's wrong she should be there."
"It was one of the best performances of the year it would have been an Alzheimer Oscar nod for the ages."
"That song she does at the end audition the fools who dream I mean in some ways that scene got her the Oscar win."
"In the days leading up to the Oscars, what made me most confident that Emma Stone was going to win best actress was how 'Killers of the Flower Moon' just had not performed very well throughout the season."
"Leonardo DiCaprio didn't win an Oscar until 2016 despite many people thinking he had won one before."
"In 2020, Parasite made history at the Oscars."
"There's no amount of attention that the Oscars could bring upon themselves as memes could have."
"Forrest Gump dominates the Oscars winning six statues including Best Picture."
"I wasn't convinced that I would get the Oscar. It didn't seem that important to me. And I have to admit that when I did receive it, it did seem very important."
"The best part of the Oscars is when something goes wrong, when something goes wrong or off the rails, or an authentic moment."
"Helen Mirin totally deserved her Oscar for Best Actress."
"How did this incredible movie only get the one Oscar nomination?"
"We're going to the Oscars with snacks."
"At the Oscars After parties, there are no phones and there's no pictures and I was like oh my God I haven't had this much fun and I don't know how long because nobody was watching."
"Let me know in the comments below, what is your favorite Tom Cruise performance? Do you think he should have won an Oscar by now?"
"What a really, really cool best actor nomination it would have been."
"Horror and the Oscars whenever the two cross paths it really is a mini Miracle."
"Dark humor should be accepted at the Oscars."
"All that needs to happen is for Bening to win her first goddamn Oscar. Let's make it happen and soon."
"Chicago went to win best picture at the mother fucking Oscars, okay! So sit down, shut up and appreciate that."
"That's the coolest Oscar I've ever seen."
"That getting zero Oscars is absolute horseshit racism yeah I mean like but it's all that's important [ __ ] that movie is an Oscar movie like that's it."
"Once you're there you're up there whether you're nominated or not and also like look Stone got nominated and I feel like she took like a break for a long time maybe because she won maybe because she won the Oscar."
"And that is what happened last night. All of this blackness culminated at the Oscars. You knew Moonlight was winning because a brother from Chicago was taking selfies and touching people's trophies."
"I loved it. This is one way that I applied the Oscars, man."
"Chris has been immortalized online as a meme of him crying while singing Glory from the historical drama Selma at the 2015 Academy Awards."
"Perhaps the problem is that the Oscars hate superhero movies and comic book [ __ ] and action [ __ ]."
"He was nominated for two Oscars in his career."
"The Oscars were constantly rewarding movies that were really going to stick it to Trump and like Shape of Water was the worst of them."
"Mia gothis recently asked about our Oscar snub and how the academy ignores Horror in general"
"You'll see a series of famous actors. Pick up the ones whose mother or father has won an Oscar in any of the four acting categories."
"The 2022 Oscars are bound to go down in history as one of the wildest moments in pop culture ever."
"The film would be nominated for three Oscars."
"Hollywood invented the Oscars to establish movies as serious art."
"Nightcrawler, a great acting performance for Jake Gyllenhaal and the fact that he didn't get an Oscar for this performance is really a snub at the Oscars themselves."
"It's just it's do you guys think that there's anybody they could select as the Oscars host that would get you actually interested."
"If there's one oscar category that rarely gives us a big surprise it's best actor but adrian brodie shocking win for the pianist in 2003 was one of those beautiful exceptions to the rule"
"The first most important reason adrian brody took the top prize i'd argue is that he was the only nominee for best actor that year who hadn't already won an oscar"
"There just wasn't that much excitement in giving another award to kane or cage or day lewis or nicholson for example nicholson had just won his third oscar five years prior were we really going to award him a fourth time brody winning was going to be something brand new"
"The third reason brody won is that holocaust movies often do very well at the academy awards thanks steven spielberg schindler's list which won seven oscars including director and picture and think the reader which won kate winslet her oscar for best actress in 2009"
"Bigelow became the first woman ever to win best director at the Oscars for The Hurt Locker."
"Before that happens, have you realized that this movie is gonna win four Oscars?"
"Spirited Away is still at this current date the only Studio Ghibli film and the only 2D animated film to ever win an Oscar for Best Animated Film, and by god it deserves it."
"Two women in the director category, a first in Oscar history."
"If you love movies, if you consider the cinema to be your church, you guys are going to be in for quite an Oscar ride tonight."
"I guess the sacrifice that he made for getting an Oscar, he's like, 'Eat the heart of this animal, God, that's my sacrifice'."
"Ryan Gosling calls out the Oscars over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie snub."
"It won 11 Oscars which is absolutely absurd."
"This work became incredibly successful: the film received 12 Oscar nominations and won 7 of them."
"Titanic became the highest grossing movie of its time and tied the record for the most Oscar nominations."
"This movie was nominated for two Oscars."
"Black Panther didn't get nominated for Best Picture."
"Watching the Oscars without the on cinema Oscar special is like watching the Oscars with a blindfold on and earplugs in, like Helen Keller."
"If you're watching the Oscars without this on your secondary screen, you're essentially... watching the Oscars with a blindfold on and earplugs in."
"Five bags of popcorn and as many Oscars as you can give."
"The Oscars recently just happened and it won a lot of Oscars. That is the main thing that I know about this film."
"The moment was not like a pure celebration of 'oh the movie that won because we loved the movie.' It was like 'oh dude, Moonlight beat La La Land because it was a whole mess up with the Oscars.'"
"One completely all but don't worry darling stuff one for me is Will Smith that's just that'll be aware where were you for years to come where were you when Will Smith got up on stage slapped Chris Rock it'll never no it never will never be."
"We watched the Oscars at least me I watched the Oscars every year even if I haven't seen any of the movies because I know that these are people who are getting ready to win awards for work they could have done over years."
"Avengers: Endgame was actually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects."
"She was the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Actress Oscar."
"It felt good to love the Oscars again."
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest becomes the second movie to sweep the Oscars."
"Maybe she wants an acting Oscar, not just a music Oscar."
"It was Fontaine, not James Stewart, Grace Kelly, or Cary Grant, who gave the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film."
"They're gonna make history for India with the Oscar win."
"Oscars have more personality than any other fish I've ever found."
"We just won the Oscars which was pretty proud. I was shocked, you know, happy at the same time."
"What O is the nickname given to the golden statuettes awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?"
"The Oscars were Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, but they were also Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington."
"It eclipses the Oscars in terms of cultural significance."
"This was just like the best movie of the year, triumphed over the movie that always wins at the Oscars."
"The Academy Award should be like a celebration of movies."
"In the long, nearly 100-year history of the Academy Awards, only 60 actors have done it."
"Some winning a few along the way, like Olivia de Havilland, who took home trophies for 1946's 'To Each His Own' and 1949's 'The Heiress'."
"The history of the Oscars is about to get even more interesting."
"I was really inspired by the Oscars, everything everywhere all at once."
"This was quite possibly the best Oscar experience I've ever had."
"That's what they used to do at the Oscars folks, they used to have fun, they used to create movie magic."
"It's shaping up to be a top five Oscar contender."
"I hope you like oscars; I hope I showed you them in a good light and how to keep them responsibly."
"I think that helps you win an Oscar."
"Who was the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in Lord of the Rings trilogy? Sir Ian McKellen."
"Will Smith just ruined the Oscars."
"The Oscars have separated themselves from pretty much every other award show; they're very cinematic, they're very artsy, they're very fancy, they're very high brow."
"He has Best Director Oscars for 'The Awful Truth' and 'Going My Way'."
"Nominated for six Oscars and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Alvin Sargent, Best Supporting Actor, Hutton."
"This place used to host the Oscars for many, many years."
"He's the only actor in history to win three Oscars for Best Actor."
"She ended up becoming the first person in history to successfully submit an Oscars consideration to both the best supporting actor category and best supporting actress category."
"Yes, this race will live in Oscar history forever."
"The theme of the Oscars is inspiration."
"I'm loving the Oscars so far, really fun, right?"
"Pixar movies have just been so dominant at the Academy Awards."
"It was exciting, something different for the Oscars."
"We won an Oscar tonight, skateboarding won an Oscar."
"Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar in 2016 for his performance in this movie."
"I've got the Oscar fever, hope you got it too."
"Prime is sort of prime to win an Oscar."
"This year, Oscar will be prime time."
"More than I love movies, more than I love most award shows, I love tracking the Oscar race."
"I think Leonardo DiCaprio should have taken Bradley Cooper's spot because I think that is one of Leonardo DiCaprio's best performances."
"Ireland's influence on the world includes the design of the Oscar statuettes and the composition of The Star-Spangled Banner's tune."
"The best movie of the year was the moment of the Oscars."
"This outfit is incredible. This is exactly what I want to see on an Oscars red carpet."
"The red carpet at the Oscars is so elegant and so high-end."
"If you've won an Oscar, you're a winner; otherwise, you're a loser."
"Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscars ever won."
"This is Oscar level cinematography."
"The 94th Oscars was meant to be a celebration of many individuals in our community who did incredible work this past year."
"Leonardo DiCaprio is the Charlie Brown of the Academy Awards."
"If you gave me the vote for the win, I think Kristen Stewart should be walking away with this Oscar."
"Oscar movies also build talent tremendously."
"Happy Oscar morning everybody, hope your favorites got nominated and some of your least favorites didn't."
"Bohemian Rhapsody now has more Oscars than The Godfather."
"It is the Academy Awards and they are the gold standard."
"I thought Chris Rock did a phenomenal job into hosting the Oscars."
"Oscars used to be something that everybody used to watch as an event to define our culture."
"Everything everywhere all at once dominating the Oscars."
"Awards help us kind of fine-tune who is going to get nominated, especially for the Oscars."