Okay... typical Oscar night. Alot of preening, self congratulations by the Hollywood community. Posing, positioning... kind of gross actually. Oh well.
I was actually pretty right about my predictions though! I was thrown a curve by two awards. Best Foreign Language didn't go to Pan's Labyrinth, a film I thought was worthy of Best Picture. And, in the only break from the SAG awards... Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for Little Miss Sunshine. I really like him ever since I saw his film debut in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming was nominated for and Oscar, and he was GREAT in that. Poor Eddie Murphy. Oh well. I was right on all the others:D
Scorcese has an Oscar! Whoo hoo! Very happy for him.
And I just want to say, Ellen should't be asked again. It was mildly funny, but she just didn't seem right. Some stuff was quite good, but her opening and some of the other jokes and things fell flat. Jerry Seinfeld was awesome though:) Wish he would be the host...
Oh, and no matter what anyone says, Al Gore didn't win an Oscar. Davis Guggenheim won. Yes, it was Al Gore's film, but he didn't produce it. But I do have to admit. Al Gore was very funny, relaxed and comfortable last night. He would have been president if he had been that way in 2000.
Okay. That's all I have to say on that subject. You can read more about it in this very good article by Brian Lowry (in Variety). He sums up the evening well:)
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Let's see. Al Gore creates a wildly popular presention on Global Warming for college campuses. He refines it. He arranges all the graphics. Then a movie is made of it. He is the ONLY PERSON ON STAGE during the entire film, and except for a short cartoon he is the ONLY CONTENT of the entire film. That film then gets an Oscar.
Oh, but Al Gore didn't win it. ;-)
Sorry. Technically, you are absolutely right. But the former VP deserves props for the film winning. Without him, there IS no film more than for any other movie made this year.
Mad Props to Al Gore, Jr. for putting together a presentation on global warming that was made into a film that won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
However, I am still right.
Al Gore is the SUBJECT of the film, but he didn't spend the time to put it together.
Obviously he is the reason it won and the reason it exists, and frankly I was surprised that he wasn't listed as producer or executive producer.
However, he didn't win the award, no matter how much he contributed to it being won.
It is arguable that Martin Scorcese was the man most responsible for The Departed having the look and feel that it did, and for winning the awards it did.
However he didn't win the Best Picture award. No one goes around saying he did. So let's be fair.
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