Gentle Reader, if you kindly would
indulge me, please start humming Simon & Garfunkel’s, “The Sound of Silence”… YES--that's good--just like that! Now then...
Hello Oscar, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Though your movies I have been missing
I still have hopes that story is a thing
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within my picks, for Oscars
I can’t afford the ticket price
Nor the popcorn, would be nice
But I still do love the medium
Though, self-importance still at premium
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash on a silver-screen
Know what I mean?
And thus, my picks for Oscars
The Academy bowed and prayed
To the golden god they made
And the net started a-Blog-ah-ging
And the words that they were form-ah-ing
And those words said, “The work of the artists is what this
event should be about.
Haters, don’t pout”
And whispered my picks, for Oscar
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Now that this is off my chest, here are my picks for this
year’s Academy Awards…
Best Actor: Rami Malek, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Best Actor, Supporting: Mahershala Ali, ‘Green Book’
Best Actress: Lady Gaga, ‘A Star is Born’
Best Actress, Supporting: Amy Adams, ‘Vice’
Best Animated Feature: ‘Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse’
Cinematography: ‘Roma’
Costume Design: ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
Director: Spike Lee, ‘BlacKkKLansman
Editing: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Makeup: ‘Vice’
Music: ‘Mary Poppins Returns’
Original Song, “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings’
from ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
Best Picture: ‘BlacKkKlansman’
Production Design: ‘Black Panther’
Sound Editing: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Sound Mixing: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Visual Effects: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Writing – Adapted Screenplay: ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
Writing – Original Screenplay: ‘Roma’
What are your picks my fellow film-loving, Gentle Readers?
