Hello Oscar, My Old Friend

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?