I also found Melissa Etheridge's moment wonderful. She kissed her wife smack on the lips and then thanked her wife in her acceptance speech. It was romantic and classy.
I also thought she sounded really good live as always. It doesn't seem to be an easy thing to do.
The awards show also made me want to see more and more foreign films. That montage was super.
I also must say that the intro into the show was really dull. A bunch of people we don't recognize by face in front of a white background. It went on too long and was a bad way to start the show.
The Foley Choir was great, but because they did their job so well it made them appear not to be doing the sound effects themselves which they were. The reaction from our home crowd was one of 'are they really doing that or are they pretending to do it while the real effects soundtrack plays'. Their applause was meager which had me thinking that the audience at the Kodak were wondering the same. I thought it was fantastic.