There wasn't a lot remarkab le about the Oscars ceremony this year. Maybe it is just that I am more detached this year than I was not too long ago from the cycle of movies year-to-year. I had seen almost none of the nominees for the big categories, with the exception of Tár. I enjoyed Tár, a Cate Blanchette vehicle in which she plays a world-famous orchestra conductor, a protege of Leonard Bernstein no less. Blanchette's character becomes enmeshed in a career-threatening scandal. Anyway: it didn't win anything and, aside from my mild level of disappointment about that: there is nothing to report -- except, a very clever set of ads about a fellow named Otto Desc. The first ad shows us the image of a German-looking fellow whose full name is apparently Otto Descinski, known as Desc to his friends, and who has been a major influence in the world of cinematography for decades. Only today he will finally be recognized. That ad ran before the Oscars program proper got u...