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February 26, 2007
Oscaroids
I watched the Academy Awards off and on tonight.
Some quick thoughts:
1. I wanted Jackie Earle Haley to win.
2. I'm glad Martin Scorsese won.
3. Given the nominees in the category, An Inconvenient Truth was the rightful winner in the Best Documentary category. Unfortunately, this victory will now give Al Gore license to be COMPLETELY smug and annoying, when he was previously only MOSTLY smug and annoying.
4. Melissa Etheridge's song should not have won. Could somebody PLEASE teach her a new chord progression? I'm begging.
5. I would pay money to see Ellen Degeneres. She is funny.
6. I'm not fully convinced Ennio Morricone knew what was going on.
7. My favorite part of the show is always when they pay tribute to the folks that died since the last broadcast. It's the closest thing to sincerity that happens during the entire broadcast.
8. Ari Sandel, who won for Best Live Action Short, gave the best acceptance speech of the evening.
9. It was on odd year for movies.
Movies | By colrus | 02:17 AM
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I also dig Ellen. She is totally cool.
And Helen. Mirren, that is, winner of Best Leading Actress. I don't know what rock I've been under, but now I'm intrigued about that movie. I guess that's part of what watching the awards is all about.
The choice of presenters for Best Director kinda gave it away, a little bit. Maybe that was the point, but it was really, really obvious.
The Morricone tribute was one of my favorite parts, especially when Clint Eastwood interpreted the acceptance speech. I don't like all of his stuff, but a) he probably "just pays the bills" a lot, and 2) you can't argue with that TGTBTU theme.
Agreed about the Melissa Etheridge song. Coattails are so convenient sometimes.
Posted by: joe lance at February 26, 2007 10:27 PM