Oscars 2018: The Nominations (2018 TV Special) User Reviews

With a show like this, it's probably preferable to focus on the content . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 6/10 · 11 February 2018]

. . . rather than the form. OSCARS 2018: THE NOMINATIONS, therefore, can be looked at in a critical light which examines the nominations themselves, as well as the raw format in which they were delivered live. Any one network's individual razzamatazz can be (perhaps, must be) dismissed as being just so much "noise," cluttering the raw data of the primary source material mentioned above with idiosyncratic piffle far less important than the actual news of the day. The latter headline, representing the development of maximum import for this sad day, is that the masterful western HOSTILES was totally snubbed and shut out of the nominations. (Certainly HOSTILES was a film "in the can" early enough that it COULD have been eligible for the 2018 nominating process, even if it technically was not.) Along with this glaring oversight, this year's nominations clearly continue such trends of disenfranchising anyone over Age 30, and trying to set up an Oscars Award Night that can outdo this year's Grammy fiasco as the biggest snafu in the history of these gelded statuettes. Everyone knows that that song picturing Puerto Rico before Maria destroyed it should have won in all the categories where it was nominated. Likewise, any thinking person realizes that catering to the people with still unformed frontal lobes by making streaming flicks such as MUDBOUND eligible to beat out actual movies like HOSTILES for nominations will soon reduce the Oscars to a pale imitation of the Golden Globes.

The nominations have become so nonsensical and counter-intuitive . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 6/10 · 7 February 2019]

. . . that this is probably the last page they'll ever devote to a so-called "Oscar Nod" show. (Just TRY to find a page for the 2019 gelded statuette nominations!) Now that the ruling clique has been taken over by militant libbers of one stripe or another, this once highly-regarded recognition night has devolved into a check-off-the-boxes game played only by the under-30 crowd spending their lives with noses glued to five thousand dollar cell phones. For the sake of Truth in Advertising, they ought to rename the whole shebang the Tinsel Town Streaming Awards, with such inaccessible-on-the-Big-Screen features as 2018's MUD BATH and 2019's ROMA gobbling up the Lion's Share of kudos like some distorted Ms. Pacman video game. In the "good old days," no more than 20 per cent of the annual glory was doled out to questionable "Art House" fare. Now the leading favorites of the streamers do not even make it to those quaint specialty shops, UNLESS you happen to live in a couple of "privileged" cities on the far out coasts. It's High Time that someone revives the Real Oscars. Why not even call this reinvigorated awards show exactly that? So what if the snot-nosed kids who have torn away the voting power of legends such as "O. de Havilland" and "K. Douglas" sue for "infringement"? Any lawyer with a brain in his head will be able to prove in court that the current bozo crowd is an inch away from destroying this American Institution for All Time!

The opposite of a high-quality appetizer

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 2 May 2021]

The title "Oscars 2018: The Nominations" is fairly telling here honestly in terms of what you get. Unfortunately, I as a big oscars fan did not have a fun time at all. Haddish and Serkis presented this one in under half an hour and this already includes a lengthy break right in the middle. No clue why these two. Serkis may be themost known visual effects actor these days with Gollum and Planet of the Apes, but in terms of range, there's nothing that stands out. Haddish came off as really cringeworthy with her forced comedy and so did Serkis laughing at her stuff. What also sucked was that they displayed the fifth nominee every single time before being announced. The very random comments from Twitter users at the bottom made it an even worse watch. Don't get it why even the biggest Oscar fans would say this is better than the actual show. Or why somebody would post they have waited all year long for this announcement. I mean it's for good reason I guess that this usually takes place at like five o'clock in the morning because honestly almost nobody cares about these and with the quality of the 2018 edition here, we can easily see why this is the case.

The idea with the category reenactments in the first half was nice, but the actresses they chose were a bit cringeworthy with their desperation to be close to the Oscars, even if it's just by being part of small snippets in the nominations announcement. Sigh. Was there a single nominee involved? I don't think so. And why did they only pick women? Kinda sexist and don't tell me #metoo, which was really all over the place back then I think, justifies such a decision. Don't wanna talk too much about the actual nominations, but this was the year when The Shape of Water triumphed big at the Oscars. Well, not as big as other Best Picture winners. The parallel to 2021 is interesting though in terms of McDormand dominating the season back then. Kaluuya and Oldman had a good year too. And I am not sure what is more surprising, Bryant on his path to winning an Oscar or being dead in 2021. And finally, Hopkins is the oldest Oscar winner now and back then Plummer was and he got nominated once more. May Kobe and Chris rest in peace. You can watch this on the official Oscars Youtube channel, but why would you? It's pretty weak. Not recommended.