Yanet Giles’ Oscars recap
By Yanet Giles
First, let’s just start this off by comparing who actually won vs. who I awarded!
Actor in a Leading Role:
Yanet’s: Michael B. Jordan
Oscars’: Michael B. Jordan
Actor in a Supporting Role:
Yanet’s: Jacob Elordi
Oscars’: Sean Penn
Actress in a Leading Role:
Yanet’s: Jessie Buckley
Oscars’: Jessie Buckley
Actress in a Supporting Role:
Yanet’s: Teyana Taylor
Oscars’: Amy Madigan
Casting:
Yanet’s: Sinners
Oscars’: One Battle After Another
Cinematography:
Yanet’s: Frankenstein
Oscars’: Sinners
Costume Design:
Yanet’s: Hamnet
Oscars’: Frankenstein
Directing:
Yanet’s: Ryan Coogler
Oscars’: Paul Thomas Anderson
Film Editing:
Yanet’s: Sinners
Oscars’: One Battle After Another
Makeup and Hairstyling:
Yanet’s: The Ugly Stepsister
Oscars’: Frankenstein
Music (Original Score):
Yanet’s: Ludwig Goransson
Oscars’: Ludwig Goransson
Music (Original Song):
Yanet’s: “I Lied To You”
Oscars’: “Golden”
Best Picture:
Yanet’s: Sinners
Oscars’: One Battle After Another
Production Design:
Yanet’s: Marty Supreme
Oscars’: Frankenstein
Sound:
Yanet’s: One Battle After Another
Oscars’: F1
Visual Effects:
Yanet’s: Sinners
Oscars’: Avatar
Writing (Adapted Screenplay):
Yanet’s: Frankenstein
Oscars’: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writing (Original Screenplay):
Yanet’s: Ryan Coogler
Oscars’: Ryan Coogler
For me, I’d say the highlight of the night had to have been Sinners winning best cinematography. This moment was monumental if you read my last piece discussing the lack of diversity in the people both welcomed into the industry, but also granted an Oscar win. I made particular note of the discrepancy between men and women, and this win marks the first time a woman has won in the category of best cinematography. Congratulations to Autumn Durald Arkapaw for your glorious work on Sinners!
In my ideal world, I would’ve dished out almost all of the awards to Sinners (though for the sake of the Yanet’s I tried to make interesting and fair choices). But culturally, Ryan Coogler through his vision for Sinners redefined what a movie in this modern day could look like and feel like. What a box office hit and blockbuster could look and feel like, what kind of people could make and star in that, and what kind of people can then be awarded for their work. Autumn Durald Arkapaw is a testament to that, and despite her win being a first that comes so late into Oscar’s game, it is also a joyous and celebratory moment for what the future holds for anyone who wants to work in the film industry.
But, after all it is the Academy, and any right move they make cannot occur without a drastically wrong one, and so this leads me into the most disappointing moment of the night. Sean Penn, that being known abuser with a pathetic view of masculinity Sean Penn, won the Actor in a Supporting Role award for his role in One Battle After Another. Convictions aside, did you hear anyone talking about that performance at all this awards season? Because I certainly didn’t. As more and more groups of diverse artists are let into the room and praised for their contributions, I continue to be confused as to why oppressive presences continue to be accepted for offering work that is not up to the standard set for everyone else around them, or why they haven’t been shut out entirely. I guess even a broken clock can be right once a day they say, but how about we just put up a new clock…?
When the night came to a close, Marty Supreme went home with zero Oscars, Jessie Buckley became one of the most awarded actresses in a single awards season, controversy went flying as Adrien Brody made a comment in poor taste about his torturously long speech from last year when the producers had just cut off the speakers who had just won Best Song for “Golden” before they really had a chance to say anything, and F1 actually won an award? All in all, well, it could’ve been worse!