Today is the day! It’s time for red carpets, teary speeches, and bets lost and won. We are live-blogging the Oscars tonight to cheer on our favorites and dish about the absurdities.
Starting at 7 p.m. (EST) tonight, Sunday, February 28, we’ll be watching the 88th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock.
Join us right here, cheer along, scroll down, and comment. (Log in any time during the ceremony that you feel the urge to opine.) We welcome your remarks—as short or long as you like. Comments will be screened before we post them, and our online chats are famously civil (if a little catty sometimes about fashion). Feel free to share your point of view. Feel free to share links and photos—and Tweets @womensvoices, too!
You’ll leave a screening of "Plastic Planet" with a new understanding of the dilemma we face: plastic, the very substance that over the 20th century, significantly changed how we live, has taken us over.
I fell asleep before Leo’s win. Thanks for hosting Alex. Always love to read your reviews! It was fun to view with you ladies!!
Wonderful Academy Awards night. Courageous exploration of serious topics, Chris Rock managed the night with its difficult issues beautifully, great music, unexpected wins for more than one..and, of course, SIX Oscars for Mad Max. We will sleep well.
Thanks Alex for hosting this fun night.
Dr. Pat
Did everyone make it to the end? Good night, all. Wish we could get together at Elton John’s after-party. Maybe next year …
Still a very very sensitive topic here in Boston.
Whoa! Big upset with “Spotlight.”
Leo gets extra credit for his climate change comments and – especially – for bringing his mum!!!
What a speech by Leonardo!
He deserved this award
Pat, yes! Saw it and predicted her win all along. She was just so wonderful. A stand-out in a category of stand-outs, truly.
https://womensvoicesforchange.org/movie-review-room-four-walls-and-boundless-love-and-philosophy.htm
AND … could Jacob Tremblay be any cuter???
Brie Larson for Best Actress for The Room.
Gracious speech and unexpected.
Alex, did you see this film?
Yes! Doing a happy dance for Brie Larson!
Nice acceptance speech, Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The Hunting Ground is painful but uplifting as the strength and determination of young women combine Title IX power with their refusal to give up and force colleges to change.
Dr. Cecilia Ford wrote about this film, The Hunting Ground here
https://womensvoicesforchange.org/the-hunting-ground-rape-on-college-campuses.htm
Biden is an honorable man. And Gaga is so much deeper than any of us realized when she became a pop star several years ago. Planning to watch “The Hunting Ground” with our college-bound daughter soon. Difficult, but so important!
Finally something authentic tonight.
Extraordinary speech, spoken with such passion and sincerity! Thank you, Mr. Vice President!
Joe Biden speaking about rape on college campuses! Change the culture, so that no abused woman or man has to ask themselves “What did I do? What Happened to You? Sung by Lady Gaga.
Amazing song. What an anthem.
Until it happens to you, you won’t know how I feel…
Loved the adorable young actors. Such poise at their age.
It always does.
Bad show this year but dave grohl did a great job
Ok That tribute really got me.
Nice speech from Cheryl Boone Isaacs, but “inclusion” has to start way before the Oscars are nominated.
Okay, Hollywood. Put your money where your statuettes are. Give Sharmeen Obaid enough budget for a full-length film!
Yes — we were pulling for you Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. You made our Wednesday Five. Congratulations.
Wonderful that A Girl In The River won for short documentary. Finally the law may be changed in Pakistan to prevent Honor Killings in Pakistan.
Excellent choice for short documentary! Love her speech!
Marvelous acceptance speech from Best Supporting Actor!
The Weekend had way to much gymnastics. Sing if you can sing!
Wonderfully inventive look inside an adolescent girl’s brain.
https://womensvoicesforchange.org/all-this-and-popcorn-too-how-the-film-inside-out-justifies-teen-turmoil-for-a-broad-audience.htm
What is the story line of Inside Out?
Just recently caught “Inside Out.” Surprisingly touched by it.
First Oscar for Chile!
That was a clever plug for the Girl Scouts organization! Nice job and nice way to shout-out them at the Oscar’s Chris by bringing in your girls.
Megan is a committed and brilliant psychiatry resident who has already completed both MD and PhD. We are so fortunate to have her as part of the Medical Advisory Board here at womensvoicesforchange.org. Lovely of you to stop in, Megan.
What can I say? I predicted none: now it is SIX Oscars for Mad Max.
Uh-oh. Pat, you and the husband may run out of champagne soon.
Just wanted to stop in and say hello. Hope you all have a lovely night watching. Sadly, I’m on night float so not having time to watch this year. Take care!
The Husband now thinks that he can predict all Academy Award winners forever: Mad Max has FIVE Oscars.
Happy life
“Black History Month Minute” was clever. And does Angela Bassett ever age? #goddess
The Husband has popped the champagne cork: we are drinking after all.
Mad Max now has FOUR Oscars.