Hollywood's annual pageant of nice dresses and the complex madness of John Travolta went off pretty much as expected - a few less for American Sniper than perhaps I cynically expected, and a few more for Birdman, which ain't Boyhood, but is an off-model enough Best Picture that I can't complain, really. The Birdman/Iñárritu win also makes this the second year in a row that a Mexican-American filmmaker has taken the top directing prize for the American film industry. Naturally, terminally pissed-off Sean Penn punctured the moment with a xenophobic joke, because that's what people like Sean Penn apparently exist to do, with little modulation: they're there to demonstrate categorically that the producers of the Oscar show can slalom and limbo all they want in...[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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