Awards Season

Yeah I get all that and I'm able to differentiate between the different winners speeches. It's the sheer studied spontaneity and ott content of JBs remarks that did it for me. I'm sorry but no thanks.

Its not a competition for best or worst speech. Happy that she won, even if her speech seems to have rubbed some up the wrong way, definitely think she had the best acting performance of those in her category.

Us paddies love an auld speech. The biggest question on a wedding day is not did either the bride or groom back out, but more importantly of course - how were the speeches. Were they any good, were they funny? Did anyone get roasted? Anyone make a fool of themselves? The poor best man is shltting himself all day until he gets that speech out of the way. Then he can drink 10 pints in an hour to settle back into the wedding.

Same in GAA. Ya don't see soccer or rugby doing this. But for our national sport, we poke the camera in front of the winning team's captain and get him or her to spill their hearts out in front of the nation. If the speech is generic, then it is deemed to be boring and using the same old cliches. If the speech tries to be funny, then he/she is branded a bit of an auld ejit. Instead of focusing on a final, the captain has to have this going through his head before a match. I remember well being captain of the local club, and there were times that I'd be nearly hoping we'd lose so I wouldn't have to do the public speaking 😥

The Oscars are essentially the film industry giving itself a pat on the back and affirmation of how great they are. And that's ok. I'd love if my colleagues at work brought us all out for a glamorous event, and told us how great we are. It might be pretentious, but so what. Same with their speeches. I think the speeches are seen (in the US anyway) as an opportunity for the winner to be as flamboyant as they want, to throw of the shackles and be over the top if they want. Doesn't cause any harm to anyone.

Yeah it's only really since about 2015 we have started to get a few nominations. Saoirse Ronan's nomination for Best Actress in 2016 was the first time any Irish actress was nominated for Best Actress. There are a few up and coming Irish actresses though; Bodhi-Rae Breathnach (who was in Hamnet) and Alison Oliver to name just two. The two of them could get a nomination sometime in the near future.

I agree totally. So overhyped too. So out of touch with reality for the ordinery person.