Viewers Respond To 2021 Oscars Ceremony
The 2021 Oscars were the sight of a number of important and significant firsts. However, the ceremony was also host to some bizarre moments.
From Best Supporting Actor winner Daniel Kaluuya shouting out his parents for having sex, to Glenn Close performing the dance to E.U.’s 1988 banger ‘Da Butt’, to Best Actress winner Frances McDormand doing a wolf howl in her acceptance speech, the ceremony had some particular highlights.
Significanly, Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour and the second woman ever to win the award for Best Director for her film Nomadland.
Youn Yuh-jung became the second Asian woman and first Korean to win the Best Supporting Actress award, while Anthony Hopkins became the oldest actor to recieve the Best Actor award
However, viewers critiqued some odd choices, such as announcing Best Picture, usually the closing award, before Best Actress and Best Actor.
The decision was speculated to be because Chadwick Boseman, who died last year due to colon cancer, was winning the Best Actor award. However, when the time came, Anthony Hopkins actually won the award.
Hopkins, however, was not present to accept the award, making the choice to have his win as the finale of the ceremony particularly unusual. Today, Hopkins posted an acceptane speech to his Instagram and paid tribute to Boseman’s immense talent.
The In Memoriam section, arguable one of the ceremony’s most moving elements, also recieved backlash as it seemed to be far more sped up than in previous years.
In classic fashion, the internet reacted to the high and low points of the ceremony with buckets of humour – suggesting that no matter how low Oscar ratings get, they are still an essential source for Twitter jokes.
Anthony Hopkins is too busy making videos singing to his cat to give a fuck and that’s why he’s a legend.
— Desi (@DesiJed) April 26, 2021
anthony hopkins rn not knowing he accidentally ruined the oscars pic.twitter.com/qEOfbiKAQh
— iana murray (@ianamurray) April 26, 2021
Anthony Hopkins stumbling out of his bed tomorrow pic.twitter.com/nzSp04DGSx
— DANIEL (@dpatt0) April 26, 2021
Steven soderbergh said “a lot of people died this year we’re doing the in memoriam at 1.5x speed”
— Emily Palmer Heller (@emilypheller) April 26, 2021
Always a good sign when the in memoriam has to go at the speed of a cd compilation ad
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) April 26, 2021
— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) April 26, 2021
Incredible that we get to see the real-time reaction from Daniel Kaluuya’s mother as he talks about his parents having sex pic.twitter.com/juxCZeJcQC
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 26, 2021
They just making shit up now 😭😭 not a single soul knew about this movie https://t.co/glMAK7RI7d
— cryptic incognito (@CrypticNoHoes) April 26, 2021
Frances McDormand is what a verb looks like. #Oscars
— Natasha Rothwell (@natasharothwell) April 26, 2021
Glenn deserves an Oscar just for this. pic.twitter.com/Aurfyb6Kv2
— Carrie Courogen (@carriecourogen) April 26, 2021
Glenn Close shaking her wagon at the Oscars is *THE* official summer 2021 mood.pic.twitter.com/PSbr88x9tu
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) April 26, 2021
an Asian woman won an Oscar, the first South Korean actress to do so and in this historical moment the press asked her how brad pitt smells like :/
— ᴮᴱ ⁷ 🧈 (@sarasfilter) April 26, 2021
God I love the Korean tradition of not giving a fuck about the Oscars then winning them
— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) April 26, 2021
The Oscars were so sure that Chadwick Boseman was going to win that they REARRANGED THE ENTIRE CEREMONY so his category could be last, and then they gave the award to Anthony Hopkins instead…the most chaotic and unhinged thing I've ever seen.
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) April 26, 2021
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