Oscars 2017 - no, no, no

            "Casey Affleck is a good actor" ... said noone ever. And yet he has somehow managed to win every award possible for his role in the deeply traumatizing drama Manchester by the sea.

             This year´s Oscars was a weird one for me. Fourteen nominations for the musical La La Land, which tied them with James Cameron´s blockbuster Titanic from 1997.

            I can´t say that the movies last year were bad, but I just feel like the Academy has set certain standards they want to see in Oscar winning movies, and they totally crushed those requirments this year. Imagine what Leo DiCaprio must have felt like when for 10 years he produced unbelievable perfromances, going trough insane physical transformation and pain, and winning the well deserved statue after long ten years or so. And then he sees Casey Affleck winning the same exact award for a movie where he uncomprehensively mumbles for two hours, and shows zero kind of emotion. Don´t worry, I get it. He was playing a man mentally disturbed after being responsible for the death of his three children, but come on ... he gave the exact same impression while the children were still alive.

          So in one weekend, the Affleck brothers managed to win both an Oscar and anti-Oscar award. Although vice-versa than one would imagine.
       
          La, La, Land. Okay, it was a nice movie. Once again, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling together, and once again dancing. But surely it doesnt compare to the likes of The Martian, Revenant, Dallas Buyers Club and Spotlight, just to name a few of the movies that dominated the previous years.

         What I simply cannot understand is the lack of awards for Hacksaw Ridge. What was in my oppinion the best movie of 2016 was completely ignored at all award ceremonies including the one last night. I really hope that this was not only due to the persona of Mel Gibson, because that would set double standards with many other showbiz people, that won.

         In conclusion, I hope that the movies produced this year will be next level to the ones in 2016. And if not, I hope that the Academy spends a bit more time considering the nominees, so that we dont end up with winners like this year. It just shows what the state of the cinematography is in a year, where Daniel Day Lewis, or Leo DiCaprio fail to make a movie.