One thing I love to do after the Oscars is to watch all the best animated feature film nominees. The winner, Flow, has gotten lots of positive attention for it’s low budget et being made with open source software, but my personal pic for best movie would have been “Memoir of a Snail”. This movie completely fell under my radar before which is surprising because I love this kind of stop motion aesthetic. (I still didn’t watch the Wallace and Gromit movie though) #animation #oscars #movies #cinema

Williams Lake First Nation Kúkwpi7 (Chief) Willie Sellars walked — and danced — the red carpet at the Academy Awards, along with the filmmakers of the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane, a film that looks at the colonial silence around Residential Schools.

I did not watch the #oscars at all this year. I just didn’t have the energy. Anyone have thoughts on the winners? Should i run out and see the Brutalist and Anora right the hell now?! #movies

Here's a review, a literary piece on #Anora written by a sex worker. It confirms my suspicions, but it also is a great text. So make sure you read it.
"Romance Labor: on Sean Baker’s Anora"

"Whatever satisfaction I could have derived from the representation of sex workers in film is suffocated by the condescension of liberal representation politics wherein marginalized people are depicted as most authentic in states of suffering."

#SexWork #MustRead #oscars
https://angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

“Like everyone who ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer.” — Morgan Freeman on Gene Hackman

At the #Oscars, Freeman honored his late friend, remembering him as a “dear” and legendary actor.
https://lamag.com/arts-and-entertainment/morgan-freeman-honors-his-late-friend-gene-hackman-at-oscars-2025

Musical Interlude: I didn't watch the Oscars last night, but here's a musical performance from a past ceremony that I remember finding very sweet and moving, even if it was also comical...From the movie "A Mighty Wind"...with the actors performing IN CHARACTER, which I loved.

"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," performed live by Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rj-Pz1vag

The win at the #Oscars of #blender made film #Flow shows just what is possible when #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource takes itself seriously and doesn't confine itself to being made by or made for *just* hobbiests.

It IS possible to get great, industry leading software, and make it ethically by focusing on the business, the economics, the design as well as the engineering of the problem.

Users must be served; developers must be paid.

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.*

100% on Rotten Tomatoes over 90 reviews.
Won this year’s best documentary feature Oscar, yesterday.

Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist. Bafta and Oscar nominated.

#NoOtherLand
#Oscars
#Palestine
#Israel
#IsraelApartheid
#IsraelWarCrimes

Upon waking up this morning, and learning who won Oscars, I have little interest in watching the the latter half of the show that I missed.

This is the reason why I'm not a big fan of the Oscars... obscure films winning big.

I'm probably uncultured and ignorant but I'm not really interested in watching any of the Oscars® movies except for the animated movies Flow and Wild Robot, Wallace & Gromit and Memoir of a Snail.

No way I'm watching a 3 hours 34 minutes movie in a theater. I just don't have the patience and resilience to sit half a day very close to strangers eating popcorn and nachos.

"As I have said many times before, the biggest victims of so-called ‘cancel culture’ in the US remain the Palestinian people and their supporters. The shameful treatment of ‘No Other Land’ by the big distributors in our movie industry is just the latest and best example of that"
Mehdi Hasan

#NoOtherLand #Israel #EthnicCleansing #Oscars

'Stop the Ethnic Cleansing': Watch and Read the Most Powerful Oscars Speech for Years
https://zeteo.com/p/stop-the-ethnic-cleansing-watch-and

"I'm Still Here" is the first Brazilian production to win an Oscar. A movie about the evils of a dictatorship.

It's an American award on the soil of a country that supported a military coup that lasted more than 20 years and, coincidentally, is now on the verge of a coup d'état.

The film explores the profound impact of Brazil's last military dictatorship on one family. Fernanda Torres delivers a powerful performance that offers a glimpse into the daily struggles faced by many during that time. It's a poignant reminder of the resilience and strength of those who endured such difficult times. It also marks the first time a Brazilian actress has won a Golden Globe.

Go see it.

The Trailer https://youtu.be/gDunV808Yf4?si=b-0hJGd2L5mRpvdU

Flow just won Best Animated Picture at the #Oscars. A film made in #Blender

They shouted out @Blender during the acceptance speech.

This is a great achievement for Open Source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcULvPtKDs

The Bear season four premieres this Spring!? #Oscars

Flow, una peli independiente hecha en #blender le acaba de ganar el #oscar a Pixar y DreamWorks. Hoy ganó la animación, el cine y el software libre.
#oscars #flow