“Patience, resilience and that rarest of qualities today, optimism.”
That may have been Oscar host Conan O’Brien’s serious wish tonight for the film industry and the world, but it ended up being a pretty good epitaph for Hollywood’s Biggest Night this year.
Let’s get it out of the way that patience, resilience and optimism were required for a show that was over 3 hours and 40 minutes long. Sinners star Michael B. Jordan’s Best Actor speech tapped into the same trio of elements in a very different way as he listed off “the people that came before me: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith.”
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