After all the craziness of the Oscars Dakota Arsenault and Mehek Seyid needed to talk about what transpired.
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– La La Land was accidentally named Best Picture because of an envelope mixup
– Jimmy Kimmel making fun of non-white names isn’t cool
– John Legend performed both La La Land songs
– Mahershala Ali was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar
– Damien Chazelle is the youngest Best Director winner ever
– Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won the first Oscar for a Potter-verse film
– All five directors of the Best Foreign Language Film signed a note deriding Trump’s Travel Ban
Based on the guesses Dakota, Rachel Gordon and Mehek made during the two part predictions episode Dakota ended up with 16 right, Rachel with 9 and Mehek with 14.
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