The Oscars

[CoasterMatt]

HOORAY ALAN ARKIN!!!!

[Alex]

For those who didn't see it, the text playing behind Melissa Etheridge is straight form the part of the movie where the song was played.

[Alex]

Al Gore is probably still trying to get the Academy slobber out of his ass crack.

Fetal stem cell proponent honored.


Conservative talk radio will have something to talk about tomorrow, but I can't begin to guess what.

[flippyshark]

I'm happy that Ennio Morricone was honored. He's the most idiosynchratic of major film composers, and thus one of my very favorites. I was amused that during the tribute film, we saw titles that would otherwise have no chance of being mentioned in an Oscar ceremony; Exorcist II: The Heretic, Orca The Killer Whale, terrible movies that gain an awful lot from Morricone's adventurous and uncompromising musical idiom.

[JWBear]

I was rooting for Sunshine... But I had a feeling it wouldn't win.

[Gemini Cricket]

I got 16 of them right.
Although, I did think O'Toole was going to win...

[innerSpaceman]

Peter O' Toole's loss was my biggest disappointment of the evening.


And the win for The Danish Poet my biggest joy (and the show went downhill from that early height of giddiness.)


Bah, Children of Men and United 93 shut out from any awards. Lame, Pan's Labyrinth losing Best Foreign Language Film. And she's great, but I'm sick of Helen Mirren winning for The Queen. Give someone else a chance!

The deserving best actress, Kate Winslet, was respendently gorgeous. Beating her on the drop-dead-o'meter was Cate Blanchett. Owh.My.Gawd. Gwynth Paltrow also had a lovely gown, as did Humanitarian winner Sherry Lansing. Oh, and Penelope Cruz was devine. Those were the five fashion and beauty winners, imho.

Leo DiCaprio had the best tuxedo. Clive Owen is officially the world's sexiest man.


Did I mention Peter O'Toole was robbed?

And, ho-hum, The Departed ... a good enough film, but a bloody remake.

Despite all the kudos for The Departed (screenplay, directory and best picture?! Sheesh) ... I think the biggest winner and presence of the evening was ... Al Gore!



Cheers for the two big-award wins for Little Miss Sunshine

Ellen DeGeneres was fine ... I think I liked her bit with Scorcese in the audience best. Oh, and having Steven Speilberg snap her myspace photo was inspired. As Frodo Potter pointed out, she was channeling Bob Newhart quite nicely during her opening schtick ... and she was pleasantly funny there and throughout the show.


Did I mention Pan's Labyrinth was robbed? No original screenplay win either. WTF But at least it won in a couple of well-deserved artistic categories (makeup and art direction, were they?)

And I call FOUL and High Fraud with Babel's win for Best Score. Balderdash! That was a recycle from the composer's earlier works. I call shenanigans!


The Academy knows nothing. Children of Men and United 93 were the best films of 2006. Peter O' Toole was best actor and Kate Winslet best actress.




But at least they got it right with The Danish Poet


The show itself moved right along ... but was really rather boring, all things considered. Hmmmmm.


.

[Snowflake]

Having seen The Departed last night, I was pleased to see it win several awards. The editing was crisp and deserved the win, Scorcese, naturally deserved it long ago, but I was happy as heck to see him finally win.

I still can't figure out why Streep was nominated, I love her, but why the nomination. Winslet maybe should have won, but Mirren was radiant.

O'Toole should have won, that made me sad.

Polobolos, cool, Ellen, meh.

[Gemini Cricket]

I was stunned when Pan lost for Best Foreign Film. But I do love that Florien Henkel Von Donnersmarck accepted his award for his film. I just love saying his name.

I love that Gore's flick won. His schtick where the orchestra cut him off was hysterical.

I'm not a big Leo fan, but he looked cute.

And speaking of cute... Daniel Craig, Clive Owen and Hugh Jackman... WOW! Hubba hubba!

Helen Mirren looked great, as did Diane Keaton. Penelope Cruz's dress was kinda weird, as was Beyonce's (what was that on her dress? grapes?). worst costume was whatever Meryl Streep was wearing. Bleh.

Yay for The Danish Poet and yay for West Bank Story.

For a moment, I thought LMS was going to win Best Pic. I'm glad The Departed won and I'm glad Scorcese's editor won, she edits a lot of his films.

All in all, a good night. I loved that Melissa Etheridge thanked her wife and entreated millions of people to kissing her wife smack on the lips. Awesome.



I loved this year's Oscars. But I'm still still mad at the Academy for their fu ck up last year giving Trash the Best Pic Oscar instead of Brokeback. Shenanigans.

[Not Afraid]

Actually, the dresses were the nice s urprise of the evening. So many beautiful gowns with that 1930's flair that I love so much. Gwynth Paltrow wore my favorite gown, although I'd order it in another color . Rachel Weisz's Vera Wang, Penelope Cruz's Versace, J Lo, Helen Mirrin, Kate Blanchett, Kate Winslett and Caterine Deneuve's Gautier gown were all high on my list.

The evening started out exciting. Pan....winnning 3 in the beginning, A Danish Poet winning the animated short......I was thinking this was going to be fantastic. Ellen's Al Gore joke was beautful and she did great, IMHO!

However, I did think Pan was robbed and, as the "big" awards were announced, I became more and more disappointed. I was heartbroken that Peter O'Toole didn't win. I didn't really find The Departed to be the most memorable film of the year - at least of the one's I saw. It was classic Scorcesi, but not very "forward". I was just left feeling flat at the end of the awards.
Oh well. I'm glad I caught the red carpet preview.

THe men.....ummmmmmm there was some goodness tonight. Clive Owen, Daniel Craig, Robert Downey Jr, Hugh jackman - all nice eye candy.

Worst dress, hands down - Sally Kirkland. Why was she even there?