JOJO RABBIT......down the 'hole' to some kids from yesterday.......

Roman Griffin Davis deserves "at least" a 'best supporting (at least) actor/actress' award!' Right, Jody Foster? Right, Patty McCormack? Right, Tatum O'neal? Right, Freddie Bartholomew? Right, Haley Joel Osment? How about Quvenzhané Wallis, Keisha Castle-Hughes......(even though 'hard to remember /unfamiliar/too-foreign names are quickly filed away and forgotten) Maybe, tonight at the Academy Awards, he'll get that 'one second pause' as the cameras pan the Ocean of Hollywooders, showing their Glamour in Designer costumes and borrowed jewels......Will he get more 'on camera' time than Timothée Chalamet garnered last year as he hammed it up in the background while Meryl Streep 'acted' as though she didn't really give a fig....errr, or a white truffle?

2020.......seeing with perfect vision? Or lost in the carnage of popular sentiment?

Back to the Awards......Although I'd seen very few of the nominated films, it was easy enough to make predictions based on the Nominees and their 'history' in films, Fashionable Trendings, Celebrity 'likeability' and the mechanisms by which the films were promoted and distributed.........I'd not seen Joker, but would have placed a $100 bet on Phoenix's getting the trophy.....likewise Rene Z.....(If Olivia Coleman has been in the 'running'....although she won last year.....I'd have 'checked the box' next to her name...then erased it, knowing that there would be no 'repeat' for her, this soon).....I was content with her amusing little 'speech', anyway.... I predicted 'Best Costuming' based on the dearth of Female Representation this year......so, next to slobbering over Cynthia Erivo's hyper-glamorousness compensatory singing performance at the Awards and for having played a re-inventedly cool Harriet Tubman, I predicted Renee's Constant Comeback with scrubbed-down- plasticized face performance......that I'd not even seen, except for a couple of clips.....Brad Pitt, riding Leonardo's shadow, of course, who's "entitled" to a trophy after so many films...and having adopted all those foreign and 'dark-skinned' kids with his ex-wife...and did his Matt Damon 'thing', having his award-getting wrangler, Cynthia Pett-Dante as...'his Date'......and, having been passed over for Benjamin Button.....although I didn't love his performance clips from the QT flick that still resides, unopened, upstairs. Harder to predict some of the technical awards, since I'd not seen the Flicks and could only judge by referencing the nominees' previous work that I'm familiar with....like Roger Deakins.....the great, great cinematographer!....Laura Dern is Hollywood Royalty.....seated next to her mother, looking good, the great, top-tier actress, Diane Ladd, who shared DNA with Bruce Dern to make Laura the naturalistic actress that she's become.....she also shares that 'I'm not loaded with pancake' look with Renee', of course.....I predicted a win for American Factory, based solely on it's Environmental/Sociological....well all those 'trending' concerns of stylishly 'correct' Hollywoodites and saavy movie-goers......the 'short subject' skateboard short would fill the slot for 'regional/world/religion/Muslim' slot, to balance a Korean film, I surmised......I could go on, but there are many who will express their opinions and judgments today, I'm sure...... Oh, doesn't everyone love the 'right' makeup job....so, give Bombshell a sleekly golden guy, too.....and, trendingly Europeanly sophisticated and not old-school same old Sound.....Hildur Guðnadóttir for some 'not like Laurence of Arabia' soundtrack! Enough of this rambling....I hear the Trash Truck rolling up the street and I need to ditch this bag of stinky cat litter!