I can't decide which was more annoying- the music drowning out the overlong speeches, or the overlong speeches...

I'm going to have to disagree with NA and E about Michelle Williams dress. Easily the ugliest thing I've seen in a while. Selma Hayek is beautiful, but it looks like her boob actually inverts where her nipple should be in that pic. Zhiya Zhang looks amazing. Charlize looks like she got tangled in her dress, but it would be hard for me to ever think she looked bad. Reese's dress was my favorite, so classy. Uma did look quite divine.

As far as the actual Oscars, I missed a great deal of them, and the only film I'd seen was Crash. I thought Crash was ok bordering on semi-good, but if that was the best movie of the whole year I'll be pretty sad.

I only saw a bit of Jon, which was sad becasuse he's the whole reason I wanted to watch. He did seem a bit off his game to me though. And I LOVE Jon.

Yup. I mean, The Bow That Ate Charlize was probably the scariest, but Michelle Williams dress was just ugly. Hate the wide neck, hate the boob pancake ruffles, hate the weird belt thing, and now that I've seen the back I hate that weird Y-shaped patch arcoss the butt. The whole thing screams scary polyester to me, even if that's not what it's made of.

And I hated what Uma was wearing, but that's so often the case that it's hardly worth noting. Her hair was great, but the dress was so mish-mosh. And every time I saw her I was reminded of Lucky Charms and the horseshoe marshmallows.

And Helena Bonham Carter was inexplicably wearing bad stripper shoes. I mean, the dress was bad enough - not totally awful, but a little prom-y for the Oscars. But the shoes! Somewhere a half-naked woman named Candi can't find her shoes.

Oh, the Oscars are my Super Bowl too, but I haven't been able to post until now. And I'm running out the door so more to come later, probably, but I really only have one thing to say:

Oh, Paul Haggis. Your film is a hammer, not a mirror? Truer words were never spoken.

I love this article from the Washington Post.

Pretty scathing:

Did anyone catch the acceptance speech for the 'Crash' Best Pic win? A female producer stepped up to the mike at the very end and thanked her husband and her wife. No joke. I want the 411 on that...

Wow, that's some terrible writing.

She was rushing to finish as the "get the hell off the stage" music began and said "wife" instead of "daughter".

Ha ha. So much for the lesbian polygamy rumors. :D
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They usually don't cut off the final speech with music unless it's really, really long. I remember the speech for 'Schindler's List' to be mega-long.

Love Ang Lee's quote here:

And the Crash producer had to speak the entire time because Paul Haggis had previously embarassed himself on worldwide television, and precluded his fellow winning screenwriter from speaking, by rambling on and on incoherently through intense nervousness - and then proceeding to ramble about his intense nervousness.

Contrast that, if you will, with Ang Lee's eloquent, beautiful, substantive and gracious acceptance speech for best director ... and you have, if I may be so bold, yet another example of the ways in which Brokeback Mountain outshines Crash in class and style and quality.


Bah to the Academy. But business as usual, if you look at most of the Best Picture choices through the years.