The way the director win was posted makes me feel like it's a fake win, sort of like Rogue One was the fake ensemble win and Hell or High Water was the real ensemble win last year.
But if it's real, then yeah, I'd say Edgar Wright did a great job making a beautiful piece of pop art.
Besides the excellent era-specifc hairstyling, The Shape of Water winning makeup leaves me a little confused because I was of the belief that the fish man was mostly motion-captured...
Well, you're right. Search Party is still a good show even if many people haven't heard of it. I think I just worded my post extremely poorly or didn't think it through or something like that.
I think, for TV, being great means nothing for a show if it can't capture zeitgeist. The Good Place is a great show that certainly captured zeitgeist. I'm glad it won here.
Now, I do agree that the filmmakers and the ways they chose to use their themes are intellectually lazy. Faith-based filmmakers should have higher standarfs just as any filmmaker should.
I was hoping all of the supporters of The Losr City of Z would rally for a cinematography win, but it's okay that Dunkirk won in my opinion; there were some very beautiful shots in it, especially the shot where Farrier is trying to land the plane on the beach.
I think its main competition is The Silent Child. I saw an Oscar voter say that that was the film that really was an actual film; he might've meant that the other films were more like statements than films.