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77th Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Feb 2005

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Chris Rock brings a welcome dose of irreverence to the 77th Oscars, but his polarizing barbs still can't fully elevate a ceremony that struggles to balance showtime efficiency and giving honorees their proper due.

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Verne Gay

Newsday

11/01/2019

[Chris Rock] crammed more energy and politics into one monologue than all of the previous monologues of the century combined... Rock brought a messy, fraught country at war into the proceedings.

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Frazier Moore

Associated Press

11/01/2019

Rock did nothing to rile the FCC, as some had feared or hoped... What he did do was give The 77th Annual Academy Awards a needed pick-me-up, presiding over the broadcast with saucy finesse.

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Gillian Flynn

Entertainment Weekly

11/01/2019

Chris Rock naysayers, I will concede that his opening monologue stank... [But] after that wobbly start, Rock turned out to be a springy, gleeful host for ABC's glitch-filled, vaguely experimental Oscars.

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Michael Dwyer

Irish Times

11/01/2019

Another reason the show was so lackluster was that the comedian Chris Rock, master of ceremonies for the evening, failed to impose his own personality on the proceedings.

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Feb 27, 2005

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