#159 - 2023 Oscar Results/TLOU Finale/Poker Face Finale/Ted Lasso Premiere Reviews

18.7 million watched the show, up 12% from last year. What was the highest viewership the Oscars ever had?  EEAAO was the first movie to win 5 above the title Oscar; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor,  Best Original Script, and Best Editing.  It’s the third movie in history to have won three acting awards but the only one to have also picked up Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, “A Streetcar Named Desire” (it lost best pic to An American In Paris) and “Network” (which lost Best Pic to Rocky) Should Oscars come first in Awards season? Biggest surprise? What actors have appeared in 3 Best Picture nominees in one year?  Weird moments; Kimmell being like ‘Speilburg, your mom was whore, huh?’ ‘You smoked a lot of hashish when you made ET.” “Seth Rogan and Steven Speilburg are the Joe and Hunter Biden of Hollywood.”   A24 won 9 awards; 7 for EEAAO and 2 for The Whale, Best Makeup And Hairstyling, and Best Actor. How does the A24-ifcation of Hollywood compare to other sea changes in decades past? New Hollywood, 90’s indie craze. What Damian's Been Watching: Poker Face, TLOU Finale, Mandolorian episode 3, Ted Lasso S3 Premiere, Close, Holy Spider What Damian’s Been Reading: Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman. Frank Capra was much less progressive than his movies would make him seem, he was against unionizing and was for the blacklist. Gregory Peck, however, was extremely progressive, being one of the very few big-name actors to be publicly and unabashedly against the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. The 1989 Oscar fiasco was fascinating, never heard of Allan Carr before.   What Derick’s Been Watching: Poker Face, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Ted Lasso, Skinamarink, Shazam: Fury of the Gods What Dion’s Been Watching: Last Of Us, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, BCS rewatch, Rick and Morty. Letterboxd Assignments: Damian- My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To Read Damian's Blog at Medium.com Check out Damian's Letterboxd Check out Derick's Letterboxd , his podcast Underrated and check out his socials here. Write into the show at [email protected] and @bisickle on Twitter. Subscribe on Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Rate and review it on Apple Podcasts. Tell a friend, family member, or stranger.