The Oscars
 

The 79th Annual Academy Awards show is this coming Sunday night, February 25th. The glamor, the stars, the fashion faux pas!

Here's a list of the nominations.

This year I'm uber Oscar-prepped ... and nowhere to go. I've seen more of the nominees than ever ... but no one's invited me to an Oscar party. Waaaaaa!

Last year, zapppop and I won a Best Costume award at an Oscar Masquerade party with our interpretation of Brokeback Mountain. Hahaha.

This year .... zip. :(



Despite the fact that Netflix is stiffing me on Half Nelson before the Oscars ... I've still managed to see:

All the nominees for Best Picture and Best Director. All the noms for Best Animated Feature, Best Supporting Actor, Costumes, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Song, and Original Screenplay. I've seen 3 each of the Best Actor and Actress noms, 4 of the Art Direction noms, 3 of the Cinematography, 2 of the 3 Make-up nominations, 4 of the Adapted Screenplays, and heard 4 of the nominated Music Scores.

I've only seen one of the Foreign Films, but it's the one that's going to win. So far, only one of the animated shorts ... but I'm going - with other swankers - to a screening of various nominated live-action and animated shorts on Saturday. And I've seen 2 of the nominated documentaries, but none of the nominated documentary shorts.

The four nominated lead actor/actress performances I've missed are glaring omissions. I've not seen Volver, or Last King of Scotland, or Notes on a Scandal or Half Nelson. But it's still the most Oscar-ready I've ever been.


Isn't anyone having an Oscar party????? It seems such a shame to watch at home all alone.





And here's my favorite moment from any Oscars ever - Bette Davis presenting the Best Actor award, 20 years ago! (It's a six minute clip, but the fun stuff is at the end, once Robert Wise hits the stage to accept the award on behalf of Paul Newman .... Oh.My.Gawd.)

:snap: :snap: :snap:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... that's me every year!! I went to one great one last year but typically I"m home with my remote, score card and a gallon of Dryers Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.

No sympathy here! :p

I'm sure there will be a virtual party on IM that night - BYOB

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is the best....

I've never been to an Oscar party of any type. In fact, now that I think about it, this weekend could be the first time I actually watch the Academy Awards in years (I saw Halle Berry wins hers on a TV in the bar while we were eating dinner at Chevy's in Emeryville, CA. (Have absolutley no idea why I remember that).

Since I probably won't be doing something else, I should see if the Parkway Theater in Oakland (couches, beer, pizza) still does a viewing party.

No party this year! Well, we'll just have to do a giant IM conference, won't we?

Or, how about someone clean my house, everyone take their allergy meds, Kevy put the TV in the trunk and bring it over and we'll have a party here?

I'll be at a Ducks game.

I wonder if they will show the winners during the breaks and tv time outs like they show scores.

I think I've only gotten together with friends to watch the Oscars once or twice. Freakin' Sunday night, lame. :(

As it is, the Oscars always reminds me of being a kid, watching the show with family. It was one of very few TV events where we brought our dinner into the living room. I think the only other shows we did that for each year were the Miss America/Miss Universe pageants. My family was pretty strict on the family dinner table standard.

I still love parking myself in front of the TV for a three hour event, though now with TiVo, things are much more flexible. And to think - never again will we yell "IT'S ON" at someone in the bathroom.

Is is too soon to annouce you're all invited to the 2008, 80th anniversary Oscar party?

By that time I should have a larger TV and the menu planned ;)

Gawd, I haven't been to an Oscar party since a little debacle of a party involving an uber-liberal transgender chick/man yelled at anyone wearing red, white, and blue ribbons on their lapel while everyone else kept their lips politely zipped for fear of inciting him/her into a political tirade. Good times, good times.