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I must be the only one who liked the method of having some awards handed out at the seats, so that the nominees could be "scanned" while seated as the noms were announced, and also of the groups of nominees brought on stage all at once while the noms were announced. It's been eighty years of having every bloody award delivered in the same way, and I applaud the effort to put some variety into it. And I frankly think that the nominees got more coverage this way.
I didn't hate too many outfits this year, but someone oughta tell Hillary that backless is not the Swankiest look for her.
I'm really glad The Aviator didn't make the sweep it looked like it was headed for. I guess it was top notch in all the artistic categories for which it won, but I don't think it was really better than most of the other nominated competition. Ditto for Cate Blanchett's win. Others were, I think, more deserving (cough*LauraLinney*cough), but there's no denying that Cate was the life line of her movie (which lost all its juice once her character was out of the story).
I'm really glad that Eternal Sunshine won for original screenplay, though I was routing for The Incredibles (it was a shoe-in for animated film, but would have been a breakthrough to win for it's fantastic script).
I'm bummed that Finding Neverland only won for best score. Better than totally empty-handed I suppose. But I really felt that, out of very slim pickings, it was the best of the nominated films. I thought Million Dollar Baby was a fine movie, but it's basically a tear-jerker and I detract points for that. And this is the first time that I felt the Best Animated Film was better than any of the Best Picture nominees.
Oh, and Sean Penn needs to find a sense of humor.
(That being said, Chris Rock was only so-so, and I predict he won't be back.)
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