Here we have the 26th Satellite Awards that took place in early April 2022 and the nominees were already announced four months earlier in the old year 2021 still. I must say this was a very odd ceremony. After finishing it, I just checked and I saw that there so, so many big categories included here that were not part of the broadcast at all. This includes all kinds of best acting categories and even best ensemble categories. Instead, they used a static camera to broadcast a show that had several people enter the stage that basically were awarded all the in-competitive awards it seemed. Here and there, we are thrown a piece of information that the next person we see won an award that night too, but honestly it seemed here to me as if the vast majority of awards winners was simply announced via a press release. This is why I felt that this awards show as a whole was on the pointless side. It ran for minimally under an hour and you can see it on the official Youtube channel if you care. The ones that actually did get included were interesting here and there. Tom Skerritt was surely fine and Val Kilmer, even if he wasn't there, was a good inclusion as well. The for me most entertaining moment of the evening was maybe that little Asian boy who was so proud of learning English and having met Quentin Tarantino. Would be pretty cool indeed if he could star in a Tarantino film at some point and with Q not being at his most prolific right now, it could actually really be the man's next film. Would be awesome and Tarantino is surely good with child actors.
But back to this ceremony: Who are you gonna see here? Acting Oscar winner Mira Sorvino was present and so was Editing Oscar winner Chris Innis. Encanto was also featured quite a bit here and I am not sure I like that too much. I find this film a bit on the overrated site. Still an interesting connection between Disney's sixth full feature film release and Disney's 60th. As you can see from my rating, I would say that the disappointing moments here are far more frequent than the good moment. Just take the lady who keeps talking about her career and all she has done over the decades, everybody she has worked with/for. That was almost impossible to stomach. I did this. I did that. I invented this. And so on. Her joking about how she was so full of herself here did not make the speech any better. The sad thing is she even got away with this and pretty much received a standing ovation after creating a shoddy reference to females working in the industry. Is there equality? Probably not. But there will also never be as long as we are acting as if this is the 1950s when it comes t emancipation.
Another inclusion I did not like was the reference to the war in Ukraine. I think stuff like this should be left out at awards shows and it does not belong there. But this is just my opinion. I find it way more accurate to talk about the people who helped you on your road to winning an award than to join in on the liberal Hollywood agenda. The latter surely applies to Jenifer Lewis as well. I did not see too much talent in her and she is as overrated as the young actresses from the Williams sisters film. Besides, Fresh prince was not a good show by any means. Kinda hilarious to see people still call this a defining sitcom from its era. But Lewis was not easy to take here as her speech also reeked so much of self-importance. The reference to the knee at the throat or neck was downright offensive and only stirring up trouble. The most ironic thing then was her singing in the end about peace. And for this they skip the competitive awards??? What is wrong with people? Say what you want, but she used this speech only to promote herself, promote her new book, but all she actually had to say was shallow and lacked true depth. I did not like it at all, so the show very much ended on a low note for me.
I am not sure if the Satellite Awards are this disappointing every year, but here they were clearly lost and there was no component of creativity or curiosity to it and this is the death of every awards show. They forgot to make this a worthwhile occasion while also trying to please Hollywood as much as they could by including mostly members of a certain ethnicity. If we look at the ones we do not see, it can be said that Mirjana Van Blaricom seems to direct this every year, if you can even call this directing, and Quendrith Johnson is always on board as a writer. For co-writer Kendra Munger, usually more of an actress with parts as small as it gets, it was not the first Satellite Awards writing credit, but with the third from the bunch René Ruiz it was and actually it was his first credit altogether. So we do have a great (i.e. Terrible) example of too many cooks spoiling the broth here. I was still optimistic I could at least hand out two stars out of five here (or four out of ten), but when I saw how literally every single competitive category was left out from the broadcast, here is just no way. This one here absolutely does not deserve to be seen. Major thumbs-down.
But back to this ceremony: Who are you gonna see here? Acting Oscar winner Mira Sorvino was present and so was Editing Oscar winner Chris Innis. Encanto was also featured quite a bit here and I am not sure I like that too much. I find this film a bit on the overrated site. Still an interesting connection between Disney's sixth full feature film release and Disney's 60th. As you can see from my rating, I would say that the disappointing moments here are far more frequent than the good moment. Just take the lady who keeps talking about her career and all she has done over the decades, everybody she has worked with/for. That was almost impossible to stomach. I did this. I did that. I invented this. And so on. Her joking about how she was so full of herself here did not make the speech any better. The sad thing is she even got away with this and pretty much received a standing ovation after creating a shoddy reference to females working in the industry. Is there equality? Probably not. But there will also never be as long as we are acting as if this is the 1950s when it comes t emancipation.
Another inclusion I did not like was the reference to the war in Ukraine. I think stuff like this should be left out at awards shows and it does not belong there. But this is just my opinion. I find it way more accurate to talk about the people who helped you on your road to winning an award than to join in on the liberal Hollywood agenda. The latter surely applies to Jenifer Lewis as well. I did not see too much talent in her and she is as overrated as the young actresses from the Williams sisters film. Besides, Fresh prince was not a good show by any means. Kinda hilarious to see people still call this a defining sitcom from its era. But Lewis was not easy to take here as her speech also reeked so much of self-importance. The reference to the knee at the throat or neck was downright offensive and only stirring up trouble. The most ironic thing then was her singing in the end about peace. And for this they skip the competitive awards??? What is wrong with people? Say what you want, but she used this speech only to promote herself, promote her new book, but all she actually had to say was shallow and lacked true depth. I did not like it at all, so the show very much ended on a low note for me.
I am not sure if the Satellite Awards are this disappointing every year, but here they were clearly lost and there was no component of creativity or curiosity to it and this is the death of every awards show. They forgot to make this a worthwhile occasion while also trying to please Hollywood as much as they could by including mostly members of a certain ethnicity. If we look at the ones we do not see, it can be said that Mirjana Van Blaricom seems to direct this every year, if you can even call this directing, and Quendrith Johnson is always on board as a writer. For co-writer Kendra Munger, usually more of an actress with parts as small as it gets, it was not the first Satellite Awards writing credit, but with the third from the bunch René Ruiz it was and actually it was his first credit altogether. So we do have a great (i.e. Terrible) example of too many cooks spoiling the broth here. I was still optimistic I could at least hand out two stars out of five here (or four out of ten), but when I saw how literally every single competitive category was left out from the broadcast, here is just no way. This one here absolutely does not deserve to be seen. Major thumbs-down.