‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Is Winning A Lot Of Oscars And People Are Losing It

Bohemian Rhapsody has been winning a lot at this year’s Oscars, which is great news to the many fans its presumably acquired, being as it is the highest grossing music biopic in history — a much, much bigger hit than Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which still managed to kill the genre of cheesy music biopics for about a decade.

But not everyone’s having it. The Queen movie may be winning a ton of non-Oscar awards, including a bounty at the Golden Globes, but it has a powerfully mediocre Rotten Tomatoes score, and it’s been roundly criticized for fudging the facts, being shamelessly cornball, and for being (mostly) directed by Bryan Singer, who’s been accused by multiple people of sexual misconduct, some of them when they were underage. Some aren’t pleased.

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 25, 2019

The best sound editing in BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is when they pause the terrible dialogue in order to crank another awesome Queen song.

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) February 25, 2019

One of the other main carps is that it was poorly edited. Shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced in late January, one person on Twitter went viral after highlighting this clip while mentioning it as a nominee for Best Film Editing.

— Pramit Chatterjee (@pramitheus) January 26, 2019

Cut to a month later, and editor John Ottman won the Oscar for Best Film Editing on Bohemian Rhapsody. Well, now people really aren’t having it.

— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) February 25, 2019

Submitted: Non-sound people should not vote for the sound winners, and non-editors should not vote for the editing winner.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 25, 2019

Did this scene clinch BEST FILM EDITING for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at the #Oscars tonight It's hard to say. pic.twitter.com/pjXgbpvXsQ

— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) February 25, 2019

Can a professional motion picture editor explain BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’s Oscar win I genuinely don’t understand it except as some kind of collective reward for editors who’ve had to clean up a shit sandwich.

— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) February 25, 2019

i can’t believe y’all gave best editing to a movie who had editing like this pic.twitter.com/xcbyYcLNah

— cc | ⎊ (@thorstrilogy) February 25, 2019

THIS won best editing pic.twitter.com/2C9esuAUOe

— eva (@quillivys) February 25, 2019

fucking Manos: The Hands of Fate has better editing than Bohemian Rhapsody, I'm never letting this go!!!!!

— Jake Cole (@jake_p_cole) February 25, 2019

*Best Editing goes to…*

Bohemi… pic.twitter.com/3HU1F3SxK1

— Amir Soltani (@amiresque) February 25, 2019

The man who just won an Oscar for best editing once directed Urban Legends: Final Cut.

— Scott Weinberg (@scottEweinberg) February 25, 2019

is this bohemian rhapsody’s editing pic.twitter.com/tca37Lm2Oj

— izzy (@spidermanffh) February 25, 2019

HOW DID THIS EDITING NOT WIN GOD I AM FURIOUS pic.twitter.com/MnRjdf6fxH

— (@kyloslo) February 25, 2019

Some were furious about its win in other categories, namely Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) February 25, 2019

The BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY sounde editing team's hardest task was editing out the door slam, run-away foosteps, and car-engine starting sound of Singer fleeing the set

— Alan Scherstuhl (@studiesincrap) February 25, 2019

Okay, this speech about menstruation makes up for maybe one of the BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY sound wins #Oscars

— Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) February 25, 2019

Some made jokes about the real Bohemian Rhapsody-involved editing: the lack of mentions of Bryan Singer.

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) February 25, 2019

The entire Bohemian Rhapsody team has done a great job editing Bryan Singer out of any acceptance speeches of the film during awards season!

— C.J. Prince (@cj_prin) February 25, 2019

Some are just burned out on all the Bohemian Rhapsody winning.

— David Mack (@davidmackau) February 25, 2019

my oscar party slowly realizing BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is gonna win it all pic.twitter.com/98LC0X05c0

— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) February 25, 2019

Or maybe Bohemian Rhapsody is making people dislike “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

— Alex Gibney (@alexgibneyfilm) February 25, 2019

Maybe even Freddie Mercury wouldn’t be giving Bohemian Rhapsody this many awards.

— Lindsay Zoladz (@lindsayzoladz) February 25, 2019

All this being said, people can always focus on all the awards not being won by Bohemian Rhapsody.

— kateyrich (@kateyrich) February 25, 2019

UPDATE: Rami Malek won the Oscar for Best Actor, which is something we already knew people were not going to be happy about.