Hugely deserving as Brody’s win itself was, the speech that he went on to give as he picked up his statuette – after he had taken his chewing gum out of his mouth and thrown it to his girlfriend Georgina Chapman – neatly encapsulated everything that isn’t working about the Oscars now. Despite a supposed 45-second time limit – listening to a succession of often unknown winners thank their agents and their mums never makes for scintillating television – he went on and on, twice pleading for the orchestra’s winding-up music to stop so that he could continue talking.
In what felt like the second hour of this oration, when we willed him to be building up to a big crescendo, he dallied with making a political point, then didn’t. Like so much of the ceremony, bedevilled as it was by tedious standing ovations for every single victor, Brody’s speech was a damp squib instead of the fizzing firework that was so desperately needed.
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Strong edicts had obviously been issued when it came to making contentious geopolitical comments, a rule that was flouted only by the Israeli and Palestinian team behind No Other Land, winner of Best Documentary. They made a dig at US foreign policy, but aside from this, blandness ruled, even when Best Supporting Actor winner Kieran Culkin swore at the start of his speech.
It gives me no pleasure to write so disparagingly about the Oscars; after all, a great and varied bunch of films were nominated and the right people took home the prizes, which is by no means a given. But seeing as this is the artform’s big night, when it gets to show itself off to a willing world, it offered a disappointing spectacle to those who were looking to be entertained. As for a pertinent reminder about the magic of the movies, there was nothing of the sort.
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