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Here's my annual Academy Award play-by-play...
I'm really excited to see Jon Stewart host....he should make it a really interesting show. I liked his opening monologue...it moved nicely and had some great jokes.
7:20 - George Clooney gets his first Academy award. Wow...this guy has been EVERYWHERE. He also had an incredible speech. Big points for bringing up Hattie McDaniel...
7:34 - Aww, aren't the Wallace and Gromit guys the cutest, bringing a matching bow-tie for their Oscar? They look like some really fun guys...
7:38 - Wow...Dolly Parton has got the smallest waist I've ever seen! The thing I love about Dolly is that she doesn't keep the secret of her seemingly eternal youth a secret - she has plastic surgery whenever she needs it and isn't shy to talk about it. Kudos for singing live, too!
7:46 - Ahh...the old "the audience looks at presenters that are not there" featuring the stars of "Chicken Little". You'd think that they'd get the hint that this is kinda silly...
8:09 - Let's hear it for pregnant women! Rachel Wiesz wins an Academy award...it's unfortunate that they announce her movie resume with "The Mummy I and II"
8:22 - Charlize's dress looks very frumpy. I love it that the winners for best documentary brought up their own stuffed penguins. Very cute comment about seeing people in tuxedos reminding them of making the movie....
8:29 - This sing from the movie "Crash" is kinda weird. I feel like I'm watching some sort of urban Cirque du Soleil without acrobats....
8:37 - Is it just me, or have these awards been REALLY boring?
8:44 - Salma Hayek never fails to look amazingly stunning when going to these awards. She looks amazing in a sapphire blue dress. Except one of her boobs looks like it's trying to fight the straps of her dress...."Let me out! Let me out!"
9:05 - Ahh, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin give a refreshing improv break to the ceremony...these ladies know how to work a room!
9:20 - There's just something wonderful about a rap group singing "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" at the Academy Awards...it's just magical! *grins*
9:25 - ...and the song wins!!! Wowza! This opens a whole bunch of fun jokes for Stewart....
9:33 - Ahh...."In Memoriam", always a sad set of clips. For some reason I din't know Anne Bancroft died. The thing I kinda hate about this is the clapping popularity contest. You can hear the clapping, and know who the big stars are, but I feel bad for the people behind the scenes who people don't know that well, but their contributions to the movie industry have been just as big as the ones we all know and love...
9:40 - OK Academy, instead of having 1,001 video montages of movies we've seen over and over again, give more time for acceptance speeches...I'd sit through 20 boring big Hollywood names thanking their agents for the chance that there would be one winner so excited and so happy and proud of his home country like the winner of the Foreign Language film, expressing his love for this country and pointing out his young stars. It was a sweet moment.
9:48 - I'm so happy that Phillip Seymour Hoffman won the award. He has always played such interesting characters, but has always been overlooked for his importance to a movie. I always have a lot respect for winners that compliment their fellow nominees. However, Dave and I had to laugh a little, because we always quote PSH's character from "Boogie Nights", like "Like my car?"....
10:00 - I was waiting for Reese to thank her husband during her acceptance speech. I could tell that he was waiting.
10:13 - Wow...Uma Thurman kinda looks freaky. Dave says she looks like a raccoon.
10:26 - Wow...."Crash" won! I was thinking that "Brokeback Mountain" would win...I see this is a nice upset, though not a HUGE upset, since Crash won the ensemble at the SAG awards last month...Nice to see Crash win, though, since it was such a huge cast. Though it would have been great to see Brokeback win, just because...
All in all...pretty boring. But I think Jon Stewart did a great job, even though he didn't have much opportunity to be funny...
Now its time to pick up all those movies on DVD when the come out....
Posted by Yano at March 5, 2006 07:19 PMDid you fall asleep?
I was in awe of now Naomi Watts took monochromatic dressing to a whole new level... her dress, skin and hair were all the exact same colour. Freaky!
Posted by: noelle on March 5, 2006 08:39 PMhaha, i was wondering if reese was going to forget her husband or not. that would be so bad if she did, cuz the camera was on him a lot. hehe.
Posted by: Linda on March 5, 2006 10:22 PMpoor ryan philippe...
you can so tell he wanted to be acknowledged by his wife. they
say in hollywood if a lady wins
the oscar and she forgets to thank her husband or partner the relationship ends.
omg, I was cringing too, waiting for her to say something about her husband. I thought her speech was really beautiful... too long, probably, but it was so heartfelt and emotional, I loved it!
Posted by: noelle on March 6, 2006 11:51 AMThe best moment for me: Izaak Perleman playing a montage of best scores on the violin. Apolo was lying on the floor in front of the TV and he started to howl like a wolf. OMG, I almost wet my pants it was so funny.
Posted by: janet on March 6, 2006 04:25 PMI wouldn't have given the Oscar to the rap group. Their rap sounded like any typical Hip-Hop dribble that's out there. I think the last great song running for an Oscar was the one Randy Newman wrote for Toy Story 2.
Posted by: Katya on March 6, 2006 04:28 PMmy favorite philliip seymour hoffman character has definetly got to be the one in 25th Hour..especially in the end when he totallty looses it.."SHUT UP!! THIS IS INSANE!!" lmao man oh man, I can make a mean reenactment of it
Posted by: TheDivineMissN on March 6, 2006 06:01 PMSo who won the Oscar voting contest?
Posted by: Shannon on March 7, 2006 09:50 AM
