And, of course, to award a grade – a system everyone understands; though its only after some familiarity with CinemaScore you realise just how generous most people generally are.
The juddering robo-funk may still be most inventive and most dancefloor-oriented of any track nominated in the course of the award's history.
Her director, Steve McQueen, said, "There is only one word that can describe Lupita – grace", and she confirmed it over the course of the awards season.
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" has been gaining steam over the course of an awards season that has seen it win big prizes at the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards.
The main trouble with the Oscars is, of course, that an award of artistic significance cannot be adjudged by large, unwieldy, semi‐anony mous and influenceable body of any kind any more than a court case can be tried by a panel of several hundred or thousand judges.
He now wears a hook, which he raised to audible gasps in the crowd in the course of presenting an award.
The move presumably represents an effort to address the awards fatigue that can set in over the course of a prolonged awards season, sapping audiences' interest in the Academy Awards.
For the evening's attendees and of course the award nominees, months of preparation has gone into getting the look exactly right for what is the most glamorous red carpet in the world.
Of course, the award means a lot of research funding, but perhaps even more importantly, the award serves as a genuine validation of one's work by a panel of anonymous colleagues.
Mr. Walsh is of course mocking the kind of award lust that overtakes Broadway this time of year, but you also get the sense that he sympathizes with those who have it.
The climax of the evening was, of course, the award for Best Picture, though it was not what Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan the leading players in "Fifty Shades Darker," and co-presenters last night would call a climax.
