Matt Damon says Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel is ‘talentless’
Kimmel responded with a photo of himself watching Damon enter the Dolby Theatre. “Remember this time past year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?” “This is Meryl’s 20th Oscar nomination. she wasn’t even in a movie this year, we just wrote her name in out of habit.”He later stated that Trump would later tweet about the Oscars in “all caps”.
At the Emmys previous year, Damon marched up on stage to harass Kimmel after he found out he’d lost out on an award to John Oliver. Kimmel still didn’t let Hollywood off the hook. Maybe even more unbelievable, considering the fact that she wasn’t even in a movie this year. “Black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz”, he said, referencing best picture-nominees Hidden Figures and La La Land, respectively.
Kimmel also poked fun at Best Actor In A Supporting Role victor Mahershala Ali’s name, saying he couldn’t call his newborn daughter Amy with a name like his. Then Kimmel followed up with another tweet, just a quick little hashtag to convey greetings from Meryl Streep, who Trump very recently called “overrated” after she spoke about him at the Golden Globes.
After remarking that most people’s advice was that everyone needed to be brought together, he joked that he was not the man to do it.
In an attempt to bury the hatchet with Matt Damon, Kimmel shared a message for him. From her mediocre early work, to her underwhelming performances in Kramer vs. Kramer.
Meryl Streep’s “totally undeserved” standing ovation. “Nice dress by the way, is that an Ivanka?”.
Several acceptance speeches celebrated the film industry’s internationalism, and the threat that Trump’s policies pose. The Oscars are annually one of the year’s most viewed telecasts worldwide with up to 40 million viewers in the USA alone.
Well, if you’re betting on that first choice, go with “confident”, because Kimmel came out comfortable and swinging.
Ali was emotional when he accepted the award.
The feverish speculation over how badly Donald Trump would get hit at the Oscars was on par with all the prognosticating about which actors and films would come away with the top awards.