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11:55 PM - 3:53, but thought it moved at a decent clip. At the end of the day, no great surprises. 11:46 PM - Three Humbugs Outside Queens, New York. 11:37 PM - "We'll be opening this envelope when we come back." 11:22 PM - I melt in Timothee Chalamet's smile. 11:20 PM - John Avildsen for Rocky, Jonathan Demme for Philadelphia, Michael Ballhaus for Fabulous Baker Boys, Roger Moore when all I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two, Sam Shephard for The Right Stuff, 11:14 PM - del Toro not my first choice, but he gave a really nice speech. 10:59 PM - well, multiple great scores had to lose, and no complaints here about what won. 10:56 PM - This Is Me. Best for Last. The only musical number when I closed by iPad to watch the whole number without distraction. What a great number,more at performance, great anthem. Can this please win? And the movie such a word of mouth audience driven hit. 10:51 PM - Deakins! 10:38 PM - Screenplay was an interesting race. A scho...

Movies are the thing I do that I've done the longest, aside from reading, and aaaahh! Oscar night. I saw over 100 movies in 2017, a lot but there are years I've been closer to 120. Around 90 of those new first run films. Most but not all of the Oscar nominations.  I'm old enough to know what I'm not likely to like, and if there's a movie like The Florida Project or Mudbound, where every wonderful review screams out "Joshua will not like this," I am happy to listen to that voice, Call Me By Your Name was close to being that kind of movie, but the Paris has a nice balcony, and Timothee Chalamet was very pleasant to watch in Lady Bird, and even though I hate Merchant Ivory movies I went to see this movie with a screenplay from James Ivory.  And it was about as good as a movie I'm not going to like can be? Did I snooze through the peach scene? Possibly. But I mostry stayed awake. Chalamet was good. The last scene was great. Yeah, could have and should have...