I missed the Slap: Oscars 2023 were boringly drama-free
nypost.com2023 Oscars on Sunday.Will Smith didn’t return to violently clobber Chris Rock. He couldn’t. The Fresh Prince is banned from the Academy Awards for 10 years.
But no other celeb did much of anything either, save for the usual “thank you”s and crocodile tears. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty didn’t announce the wrong Best Picture winner.
Producer Steven Soderbergh wasn’t on-hand to refashion the ceremony into a diabolical eyesore like he appallingly did in 2021.
Nobody was called “Adele Dazeem.”Instead, Hollywood’s biggest night was back to business as usual.This year’s winners went down mostly as expected in the top categories, even in tight races that were in a dead heat between two favorites: Brendan Fraser won against Austin Butler for Best Actor; Michelle Yeoh defeated Cate Blanchett for Best Actress; Jamie Lee Curtis beat Angela Bassett for Best Supporting Actress.A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” took home Best Picture, just like everyone everywhere expected.BAFTA-winning German World War I film “All Quiet on the Western Front” was picking up Best Picture momentum for a while, winning some surprise technical awards, but ultimately settled for Best International Feature.But, despite the lack of surprise, the 95th Academy Awards telecast was at least tolerable.
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