Even if you didn't think the best man or woman won in every category, there weren't many results that would have had a reasonable person throwing a shoe at the TV screen and yelling, "How dare they?" The director of An Irish Goodbye, which won best live action short film, used his allotted time to ask the audience to sing "Happy Birthday" to the film's star, James Martin.
None of them appeared to be at risk of being cancelled. They all seemed to be decent human beings who were grateful for their prizes while emphasising that film-making, like life, is a team effort. (The practice of starting the music before recipients have finished their acceptance speeches is as infuriating and insulting as ever.) And the winners in each category seemed to have been picked according to which one would provide the most warm and cosy feelings. It's true that long stretches of the three-and-a-half-hour bash were boring and repetitive, but that's almost always the case with awards ceremonies, and there were only a couple of obvious flaws.
Everything lulled you into imagining that the screw-ups of the past few years were just a bad dream. The dresses were sparkly, and the gold and silver art-deco stage decorations evoked the glamorous hotels and ocean liners of Hollywood's golden age. The In Memoriam round-up was touching, with a well-judged, tearful introduction by John Travolta and a piano ballad performed by Lenny Kravitz. The introductory speeches weren't too painful, and the jokes weren't bad.
No one made any embarrassing mispronunciations or gaffes. Kimmel was relaxed and in control: he even finished by mentioning that he would be back on his talk show the following night, as if to suggest that this was just another evening's work for him. Nine Oscars outfits once mocked now iconic The oddball film that swept awards season In recent years, the Oscars have often been debacles, whether that was because of the envelope mix-up in 2017 or the socially distanced gloom in 2021, but this time the event was slick and competent enough to convince you that the producers and directors actually knew what they were doing. It was only natural that Kimmel should make so many jokes about last year's Incident, but even if you had somehow forgotten about Will Smith slapping and swearing at Chris Rock, that closing gag would have made sense. At the end of the Oscars, the ceremony's host, Jimmy Kimmel, strode into the wings and flipped a number one on to a board that read: "Number of Oscar Telecasts Without Incident".
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