OSCARS REVIEW

I thought the Oscars show on Sunday was terrible. This is two years in a row without a host and they really need one. The show seemed disorganized. People started singing and i didn't know who it was. No introduction. No reference on the screen. The top 5 nominated songs were sung in a scattershot way.

I really hated the production, from the stupid opening dance number, to  the lame gags by so-called movie "stars' like the annoying Will Fareel. the duo of Steve Martin and chris Rock were mildly funny in an early bit, but even they have been way funnier.

The In Memorium tribute was touching, as some girl with grren hair sang 'yesterday." Only thet screwed that up too by omitting luke Perry from the rollcall. Unforgivable.

As always the program ran too long. Who cares about the awards for costumes or lighting or whatever. Only the nominees and the winnerr eally care. Even the celebrities in the audience looked bored.

Speaking of the crowd, some lectured about politics and Trump, but luckily Meryl Streep didn't speak. It's a shame, after a brillaint acting career. that one of the things now associated with Streep is her annoying apeeches at awards shows.

I thoguht it also was stupid when the crowd gave a standing ovation to Enimin, for his profanity-laced rap song. Typical Hollywood.

Speaking of which, the South Korean film, Parasite won four Oscars, including Best Director, Screenplay, Foreign Film and Best Picture. I didn't see it so I can't comment on it's worthiness. However, I think foreign films should not be including in Best Movie categories. It was the first time in 92 years that a non- English speaking movie won for Best Picture.

It was nice that the Korean director/screenwriter of Parasite credited his fellow directors, including a weeping Martin Scorese. But I did get tired of so many Koreans up on stage all night, especially the director who can't speak English.

We certainly had derserving movies here at home,e specially the acclaimed 1917 and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Just my opinion.

The main awards went pretty much as expected. Brad Pitt won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Once Upon.... I was okay with either he or Tom Hanks winning that category. The beautiful Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress for Marriage Story. Best Actor went to the favortie, the weird Jonquin Phoenix. Best Actress was Renee Zellwinger, for her portrayal of legend Judy Garland.

No surprises, other than Parasite winning big.