The Oscars

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nicole Kidman. I mean, I guess it's just not noteworthy anymore when she walks on stage looking absolutely stunning! After they presented, I mentioned to CP that Kidman looked fabulous, and CP replied, "So did Daniel Craid," and that's when I realized I think I had glanced at him once during their whole presentation, the rest of the time I was just transfixed by Kidman.

Hooray for the Danish Poet! The douche they kept showing back stage as they went to commercial called that one a "surprise". Umm, it was only a surprise to anyone who hadn't seen the nominees. It was hands down the best of the bunch.

West Bank Story...eh. I didn't dislike it, I didn't dislike any of the shorts. But I'm really quite surprised it won. I would have picked any of the other before it. The guy's speech was good though.

As for the rest of the awards...I didn't see nearly enough of the nominees to speak to them. But I thought the show was entertaining. Even Jack Black and Will Ferrell made me laugh. I loved the sound effects choir, but whichever director or producer made the call to cut to a closeup of the choir every 5 seconds needs to be shot. That bit was all about the wide angle, seeing the film and hearing the choir. A handful of closeups so we could see them in action would have been nice, but the constant cutting drove me to distraction. Grrrr.

I'm sure I say this every year, but I gotta see more movies.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nicole Kidman.

She just doesn't do anything for me. She's model pretty, not pretty pretty and when it comes to ogle-value the latter is the only thing that matters much to me. I'm completely straight and Daniel Craig was still the visually more interesting thing on stage for me.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

The douche they kept showing back stage as they went to commercial called that one a "surprise". Umm, it was only a surprise to anyone who hadn't seen the nominees.

I'm pretty sure that was intended as a joke. He listed all of the shorts categories as surprising, meaning, I believe, that nobody knows anything about them. But he was a very annoying man, is he someone I should have recognized?

The shadow puppet people were generally a waste of time but the Snakes on a Plane one was cool.

I think historically the minor awards have been a place for the academy to gets its political groove on. No Man's Land was nowhere near the best foreign language movie of its year but it had a good "war is stupid, can't we all get along" theme.