Harrison Ford flashed back some four decades at the Oscars on Sunday, reading scathing screening notes from the classic sci-fi film “Blade Runner.”
“Opening too choppy,” Ford grumbled. “Why is this voiceover track so terrible?”
The bit lasted more than a minute, with the 78-year-old actor concluding to roars of laugher: “That movie was called ‘Blade Runner.'”
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Ford, dressed in a tuxedo at the 93rd annual Academy Awards, read the notes as he introduced the Best Film Editing category. “Sound of Metal” won the honor this year; “Blade Runner” did not in 1983 (nor was it nominated).
But “Blade Runner,” which boasted a strong starring performance from Ford and some flourishes of dazzling writing, has lived on as a cult classic all these years.
Ford said that the notes he read off a crumpled piece of paper “can help us understand why the editing process can often get a little complicated.”
The Oscars on Sunday capped a strange pandemic year in cinema, with “Nomadland,” a recession-era story about a cross-country trek in the American West, claiming Best Picture.