So I woke up to find tons of comments (and some conspiracy theories?) about not mentioning the John Cena bit. I thought it was fine, just not one of my favorite bits of the night. I actually did record something about it but I was so "eh" on it that I didn't even think it was interesting enough to include. I'm glad lots of you enjoyed it, just wasn't my cup of tea. But yes, I did, in fact, see John Cena.

Ryan Gosling just casually stealing the show. he can't help it, it just happens.

After Jimmy closed out the show, all i was thinking was "Hold on?! The Best Picture Winner starred Matt Damon in a Major Supporting Role, and Kimmel isn't doing anything??? what is going on??" Then we cut to Messi and it brought peace to the world.

The Downey joke would’ve been good if it’d just been that first line but then he just KEPT GOING. He went way too hard for absolutely no reason.

As a German I absolutely hated the joke about Sandra Hüllers two roles. You could literally saw she smiled through the pain 🙃 We just don’t make jokes about genocide…

The “I’m Just Ken” performance was a true masterpiece! (Very Tony Awards to me which, in my opinion, is the best awards show of them all)

I was a little upset that the Godzilla Minus one speech was cut short in such a rude way. The guy clearly wasn't the best English speaker so not giving him the time to express himself felt wrong.

It is very weird, that so many people complain about the bad joke on RDJ and his troubled past but the RomCom joke about Sandra Hüller seems to be totally fine. Telling the first nominated best actress from Germany since 1937 that the Holocaust is a joke in her country is not just bad taste, it is disgusting, to say the least.

I am Japanese 日本人です We celebrate 2 wins for the first time in 15 years (since "Departures" and "The House of Small Cubes" in 2008) Most of you must be wondering why "Godzilla Minus One" was not the Japanese submition of International film. "Godzilla Minus One" was not that successful in Japan for a Godzilla film, and director Takashi Yamazaki is like Japanese Michael Bay, who started his career as a VFX guy. On the other hand, everyone thought famous Wim Wender's film was more Oscar-like especially after it won Cannes for the best actor. This is why it was a huge surprise that "Godzilla Minus One" was very successful both commercially and critically overseas. At Japanese Academy awards of the last week, which nobody even in Japan cares, "Godzilla" sweeped 8 categories including the best picture, while "Perfect Days" got 2 wins for the best director and best actor. But it was of course too late for the Oscar international film. In Japan, every one predicted "Godzilla" and "The Boy and the Heron" win Producer Toshio Suzuki just revealed at a press conference that even though Hayao Miyazaki was pretending he did not care about the awards, he was waiting at his atelier the good news, Ghibli staff was watching the show and started to clap as soon as they heard the "The" of "The Boy and the Heron", And Suzuki ordered 3 Oscar statue for himself, Miyazaki, and to show off. Also, everyone, do not forget that today is March 11th, 13 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

As a lifelong Godzilla fan I was really happy to see it win. Hearing the Godzilla march play while they were walking up made me choke up a bit and you could tell they were all really thrilled!

I'm thrilled for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey, Jr. They were both incredible in Oppenheimer, and their careers have been consistently great.

I actually love the fact they brought all the past winners to present. It added a peer to peer respect, as well as had a few surprises of past winners that we may have forgotten about

Kimmel’s joke about animation being for kids pissed me off. Last year we had Guillermo Del Toro say animation isn’t just for kids it’s a serious art form that can be used to make all sorts of stories…and Kimmel kind of shit all over that

100% to John Mulaney doing the Oscars. I have a feeling nobody wants to do it, hence why Jimmy keeps doing it

Wes Anderson winning for a Netflix short is like Lionel Messi winning MLS games

Nolan won exactly 30 years after steven spielberg won his first oscar, schindler's list, so it was great to have steven spielberg be the one to give the award to Nolan.

When Pacino read Oppenheimer, everyone was like 'lets get someone else to look at this card'

"...as far as energy and fun..." come on Dan, "Kenergy" was right there!

Jimmy kimmels funniest joke of the night, was right after Emma won, and he said “make sure you tear that envelope up”

I'm so glad you mentioned the In Memoriam thing. I was sitting there going "Wait, why aren't they actually showing the names? I can't even see that guy? Why is it moving all around??" It was really annoying. I also completely agree with your assessment with the RDJ joke from Jimmy Kimmel. I couldn't quite put my finger on why it bugged me and you really nailed it for me. What on earth was the point? It's such a lazy joke, and most damning, it wasn't funny. And Al Pacino made me cringe, what on earth was that?? Overall though I thought it was a pretty good Oscars.

I love Lily Gladstone but I think she was nominated in the wrong category. She would've won Supporting Actress easily. Emma Stones in Poor Things was unbeatable.

Oppenheimer’s win for Best Cinematography was also a big win for IMAX as it became the first film that utilized IMAX film cameras to win that award (and was only the third film ever that used IMAX film cameras to be nominated for the award following The Dark Knight and Dunkirk).

I cannot understand how the academy continues to get away with making a joke of animated films EVERY YEAR. Asking if they let their children vote on that category is so disrespectful.

The stunt performers acknowledgement not announcing that as a category was definitely odd. When watching with people, we all said “seriously?”

Dan had it absolutely right here. In Memoriam should be somber, not flashy. The dancing honestly came across as a parody. I'm old enough that I remember "The Running Man" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in that film - a satire of our media consumption more than 35 years ago now - they had a dance number to remember their fallen Stalkers. The In Memoriam needs to go back to what it was when I was a kid: A black screen with white text names and a photo. Maybe - MAYBE - a short snippet of an iconic performance (Like Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, for example). But stop making it a show-within-a-show.

Lupita's presentation of Da'Vine was just so beautiful. I loved how she mentioned her grandma's glasses that was a soft moment for a great actress that is Da'Vine.

John Mulaney randomly recapping movie plots is a classic bit of his. He’s done it for The Fugitive, Back to the Future, and a few others I’m drawing a blank on right now!

I was so thrilled for Godzilla Minus One, my favorite movie of the year. Loved the Batman bit, I couldn't stop laughing for that 30 seconds.

If anyone has any doubt about John Mulaney hosting the Oscars, pls watch the Oscars Governors awards he hosted couple weeks back… basically an audition.

I’m so glad you referenced the “We don’t talk about Bruno” performance the other year, I was so worried that was what would happen with this performance but they knocked it out of the park. They put a lot of heart in to it.

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE IN MEMORIAM!!!! it is absolutely INFURIATING each and every year when they do them and how do they NOT UNDERSTAND that you play a nice song and full screen of everyone who's passed away and THAT'S IT. HOW,👏HARD👏IS👏THAT?!

I am so happy for Da'vine Joy Randolph! Not only did she win for such a heartfelt performance, but her speech was so powerful that it made Paul Giamatti and my mother cry.

My moments of bliss were Godzilla winning VFX and Zone of Interest winning Sound. Well, and “I’m Just Ken.” It made me so happy to see the cast come out to perform with Ryan. He’s got Shang-Chi and the Doctor for his backup dancers.

Man i love dan’s passion for film. Thankful that he was able to turn what was meant to simply be a summary video into an enthusiastic look at film in 2023. Here’s to another great movie-going year in 2024

Ryan Gosling may not be the Best Supporting Actor winner but he won everyone's heart in that room and around the world for pulling off a miracle with that "I'm Just Ken" performance, easily one of the greatest performances in Oscar history! So happy to see Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen performing with him and Mark Ronson, what a remarkable collaboration 🙌

The In Memoriam this year was probably the worst I have ever seen and there have been some bad ones. Showing the screens from far away so you could barely see them and constantly moving the screens to a different area on the stage was stupid. Then having dancers in front of the screens distract from what this segment was. It was like the actors that passed away were an afterthought and the performance in the foreground was the main attraction. It was beyond terrible and disrespectful.

Another thing I didn't like about the "In Memoriam" section is that they clumped a whole bunch of names together at the end. The two that stuck out to me were Treat Williams and Burt Young. Burt Young was nominated for an Oscar! Why didn't he get a clip? And Treat Williams was a notable actor in his day and came close to getting nominated! I didn't think being included in the fine print was enough to honor him.

The clips from the show in this video to give context are so important-KZfaq YOU BETTER NOT TAKE DOWN

I'm so obsessed how Al Pacino announced the winner, it couldn't have been more anti climatic than it actually is. Bro came to the stage, say a few words in a drunken way, didn't bother to introduce the nominees first, opened the envelope, "My eyes see Oppenheimer", music started as he was about the say the producer's name, and he said "What happened?" My god, I love that man 😂😂

Per Al Pacino: “There seems to be some controversy about my not mentioning every film by name last night before announcing the best picture award. I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremony,” he said in a statement. “I was honored to be a part of the evening and chose to follow the way they wished for this award to be presented.”

The performance of I’m Just Ken is what I was expecting out of the RRR performance last year, but what a letdown that was in scale and the simple scenography. I was afraid that they’d do something similarly disappointing for I’m Just Ken. THIS IS HOW you do a live performance at the Oscars. It had scale, it was fun, filled with energy, it was silly, entertaining, it was everything! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

I'm sorry, but I'll remember "I'm just Ken!" most of all! such a very fun moment!

I'm glad you called out the cynical BS behind 'War Is Over'. It speaks volumes that their victory speech was so empty.

They should just have John Mulaney and Nick Cage do the whole show.

The RDJ drug joke is soooo... idek, like isn't the room filled with people who are secretly addicts? The industry isn't exactly "clean"

Hearing the "happy mothers day yoko" while watching this video scared me so bad. I had to immediately check my calendar and make sure that i didnt miss it😂

Thank you, Dan about the Memorial segment! In my house, we were so upset how they keep messing this up! TCM channel does it the right way!

Great video! Thanks for your hard work and terrific energy!

Godzilla has more Oscars than Diane Warren 💀

Dan: "Why is there a dog?" That was me yesterday, keep in mind that not everyone knows the current film references. I was very much confused about that dog clapping and I'm thankful I chose to watch this video of your Oscars breakdown. So only now I'm aware that Dog is from "Anatomy of a Fall", thanks

If I had one recommendation to the producers of the Academy award ceremonies, it would be this… Your main audience is the television audience. Not the in-house audience in the auditorium. That’s why I think all focus should be given to clips of the movie, snippets of individual performances, a little bit of cinematic background, as to why these particular technical categories are so important to the filmmaking process. In other words, use the ceremony as a way of reach out to a captive audience, and bring them into the process by showing them the cinema elements that are being celebrated instead of the onstage elements that don’t have the same impact as they would to those in the auditorium

So happy “Godzilla Minus One” won Best Visual Effects, and “Zone of Interest” won for Sound.

Dan Murrell, for me, is the most important voice in movie and TV reviews. As soon as I woke up and saw the winners, I remembered his Oscar predictions and couldn’t wait to see this video.

One trend I'm seeing with the Oscars is that genre films are finally seeing some recognition give the bias against them and Poor Things wins shows this.

Love your analysis on point!!

The “I’m just Ken” performance is up there with “Blame Canada” for me… one of the best I’ve seen on the Oscars. So good.

The problem with awards is that only one person can win. A lot of people are deserving to win.

Honestly one of the best Oscar shows Ive seen. It was very entertaining and Im happy with all the winners. I personally disagree with most of your criticisms but always love to see your input Dan!

Great video Dan, was waiting for this one beyond anyone else. I was about to look up winners on google and thought, nahh, I’ll wait for dans video.

You have some very good takes. Subscribed.

I can't believe you didn't talk about John Cena. 😂😂😂

Oh yes, the MESSY In Memoriam. Please: No dancers just one singer, and camera on the screen the whole time so we can read the names and see the faces of the dearly departed.

Fantastic wrap up of the Oscars. I love Dan's passion for movies!

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

Lily would’ve deserved it in any other year. But this year Emma Stone was the CLEAR winner and she deserved it. So happy.

It is also Godzilla's 70th anniversary this year so what a way to celebrate.

Zone of Interest director's speech was historical and he's probably blacklisted now.

Excellent video. Approachable, but detailed and thorough.

I think the audience were more shocked that Al didnt bother reading first the Best Picture nominees.

I was super impressed by the telecast. It kept moving at a good pace and I think there were consistent funny and sincere moments throughout. I really don’t know what else you could expect from the Oscar’s.

Appreciated the past winner introductions. Part of the magic of Oscars. Clips are everywhere.

Dan, thank you, you expressed EXACTLY, and I do mean EXACTLY the thoughts and opinions that I had as I was watching the show. And you keep doing that, so thank you for being a public voice of reason.

loved the mini dan rant about war is over. miss those from the SJ days!

That joke about Robert Downey Jr. wasn't the best but I gave props to RDJ for handling it like a champ. You just know that he could've slapped Kimmel on stage if he really wanted too, take notes Will Smith 😂

I know I'm in the minority but my favorite performance by far for lead actress was Annette Bening. I think she was incredible in the role.

Godzilla minus 1 winning best visual effects was incredible to see

Yay for Godzilla Minus One!❤

The biggest oddity was "Zone of Interest". For the first time, UK won "Best International Feature Film" with ... a German-language movie.

I think it was the best summing up of the ceremony :) Dan is zebest, as usual

I love so much of what you've highlighted here! This was the first Oscars telecast I got to watch in its entirety with my son, so it definitely felt special to me, though I acknowledge my rose-tinted glasses. That said, I was surprised you didn’t mention as a highlight John Cena's up-for-anything, go-for-broke “streaker” bit! It was even punctuated wonderfully in a brief moment backstage when Cena crossed paths with Dwayne Johnson and Cena sort of impishly grinned. I loved the whole thing!

I was happy to see Ncuti Gatwa back for I'm Just Ken as well.

RDJ should have said at the end, take a breath then said....."I am Ironman"

Great vid Dan!

I totally agree about the Memorial presentation!

I personally love the previous winners announcing all the acting nominees. If they go back to clips then they should devote as much time as they did this year for them. I’m just happy that they figured out the timing without cutting too many speeches short.

Dan, remember that, last year, the MOST FUN SONG EVER actually Won! “RRR”’s NAATU NAATU!

Dan, I appreciated your set decoration! Loved ‘Oppenheimer’ and in particular ‘Past Lives’ 👍

The win I wanted to see most was American Fiction taking adapted screenplay so I was hyped to see it happen

LOVED: Twins vs Batman (Michelle Pfeiffer was in the room!? Get her in the bit too!); Nicolas Cage's comic delivery in his tribute to Paul Giammati. We need to see Nic in more comedies (again)

What the Director of American fiction said during his acceptance speech is the strategy that every early stage of venture capitalist and Angel investor uses. But those smaller movies don’t sell toys so, they’re gonna keep making $200M flops.

Well done! Bravo!

Outstanding review

Great video! I hope Lily Gladstone gets more roles so she can be nominated again!

Unbelievably, only 35 people are involved in all visual effects in "Godzilla Minus One"

Omg the stunt performers.... I had the exact same thought while watching the video

20:19 great video! Madem web was also mentioned from jimmy at the beginning

No mention of the John Cena bit? Absolute highlight of the night.

As much as I love 'Across the Spider-Verse', it was great to see 'The Boy and the Heron' *SWOOP* in for a win 🪽🏆

Even though I dont care about the Oscars, I love moments like the Godzilla Minus One and Davine Joy Randolph wins.

Great recap