Thanks, Olaf.

David Bowie and Alan Rickman were included, though…

I posited that people aren't talking about the movie anymore because it's bad. You've kind of twisted this the complete other way around into me saying it's bad because people aren't talking about it.

Nah, if anything at this point the vocal haters are the only ones who are still talking about Birdman. I haven't really seen anyone else talking about it other than in passing during conversations about The Revenant or the Oscars, and that too will end when people stop talking about that movie in a matter of weeks, if…

The award is for Best Visual Effects, though, not Most Visual Effects.

They didn't even include him in the montage.

I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with an actor not "transforming into a different person." That's one mode of performance, but not the only valid one or even necessarily the most difficult one! My favorite male performance of the year was Samuel L. Jackson in The Hateful Eight, doing an especially…

I wonder if the producers started to regret using Wagner as the play-off music when it was used to cut off the director of Son of Saul.

It's close but I think Annie Hall really is better. Very much agree about '68 though. And '41, and '89, and '94, and '05, and '14, and….

There's New York….and theeen theeere's Hoopz.

The Oscars have been bullshit since Wings beat Sunrise.

Yeah that was unbelievable. Jacques Rivette and Rowdy Roddy Piper, too (this is probably the only time you'll see those two names in the same sentence).

This is why I exclusively use Facebook for dank memes, cute dog pics and remembering people's birthdays.

To be fair I think that happened sometime around season two of Flavor of Love.

The Academy suffers from muntal detarioration.

Four times, one win. Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, and Kathryn Bigelow (who won).

I'm still confident he will be in good time. The Simpsons thing was well-received and gave him huge exposure, his next movie will be his biggest release yet (with a budget and a crew and everything), and I know lots of people who are only the most casual of film fans but still quote "Rejected" years after discovering…

At least if the Pixar short had won I could have blamed World of Tomorrow's loss on typical Academy biases. Now I'm just baffled.

Wait, an Inarritu film is ponderous and self-important? I find this very hard to believe.

Yes, making 1 Best Director win for women. Inarritu now has 2.