Academy Awards Thoughts
I was going to do a play by play of the academy awards like I usually do, but several factors prevented me from doing so this year:
1) We just got to our hotel room before the show started
2) I’m incredibly sore and all I want to do is lie in bed
3) This year’s Oscars were incredibly boring
I was hoping that Ellen would be a great host, but she was only so-so. Anyway, here’s my show best and worst:
Best - All the love that everyone was giving Al Gore, and how humbly he soaked it up
Worst - Those dancer/tumbler/circus acts that made objects behind the screen
Best - Melissa Ethridge being the first woman in my memory to thank her wife for an award
Worst - Having presenters present an award that their movie is nominated for - Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt for the Costumes and Jack Nicholson for Best movie. Poor Anne and Emily had to fake happiness for Marie Antoinette’s win
Best - How much the winners from Pan’s Labyrinth love and respect their director, Guillermo del Toro. It seemed like every time they spoke his name he cried. I only wish he won Best Foreign Language!
Worst - Showing all the nominees faces right as they lose the award. I know they always do it, but it still hurts!
Best - Jack Black and Wil Ferrell’s duet about how comedians are the saddest people at the Oscars
Worst - The movie montages that they made - BOOOOOORING!
Best - Having Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola on the same stage. They had great chemistry. Even better? Having them present the Best Director award to their peer, Martin Scorcese
Best (because I want to end on a best) - Forest Whitaker’s speech was a highlight for me. He first talked about watching movies from the backseat of his family car, and moved on to talk about why he acts, to feel that emotion come out of him. You could see that it affected everyone in the room as his fellow actors all reflected to themselves why they were there.
All in all, it was an OK awards show. There were a couple surprises (poor Eddie!) but it was just average to me.
It could be that I’m just in a lot of pain and I’m not easily amused right now.
I hope i’m not prodding too much, but why are you in pain?
what pain…get well
yea the awards was ok
forest whitaker is such a great actor
Your best and worst are exactly the same as mine! I would add best dress as Helen Mirren’s–loved that dress for an “older” woman.
Snowboarding sore???
They must have been targeting the oldies this year, because I really enjoyed it.
hope you’re having fun boarding! we were in vail in december, for a week. not that much snow, but board-able enough, i guess…my fav was breckenridge!
My best moment was Ennio Morricone’s honorary Oscar presentation, and how he bowed to the crowd when he received it and repeatedly got all choked up as he spoke his words in Italian.
It’s a travesty that this brilliant composer of 500 film scores hasn’t already won an Oscar outright!
But the worst was Clint Eastwood’s rambling introduction of Morricone. Yikes.
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