Back to looking at dresses; that shit was boring.
Only Nicole Kidman's dress stood out to me, with some purty sparkles showing up on Penelope Cruz and Anne Hathaway.
Before I forget, the ceremony itself...
LOTR! Not just a short clip in a montage, but the full orchestration to accompany Cate Blanchett's walk to the mic, where she then talked about how important makeup and costumes were to the film. Even after winners were announced, the image on the screen behind them remained of Arwen & Aragorn's Rivendell embrace. Take that, lesser mortals.
Christian Bale made reference to his on-set rampage. This is why he's the goddamned Batman.
Steven Spielberg walked on stage to the Jurassic Park theme. Take that, lesser Schindler score.
It made me so happy to hear that beautiful Inception score so many times tonight. For the acceptance it indicated, and because it just bloody sounds good.
Perhaps in another universe, it would be playing while that whole cast and crew walked to the podium for a Best Picture win. They win in the podium of my heart.
My tally for the night was 15 out of 24 categories correct. Bit less than recent years, think I was usually around 17. No regrets; was pretty sure on my picks once I finally chose them. Makes the documentary and shorts even more fun to watch cuz no one
anywhere has a better chance of getting it right.
I was glad for one winner to mention the nominees being available online, since that is my main complaint for the smaller categories: fuck the mainstream, these animated foreign language numbers look amazing and I want to check 'em out! Years ago when Rodia's film was in there, I was equally thrilled for her and for the chance to actually see one of the nominees heh.
Anyhoo, that's that. I can't wait to see The King's Speech and 127 Hours. With an apparent record amount of sequels being released this year, it will be interesting to see what the Oscars can churn out next time. Hopefully some quality will sneak in there before too much advantage is taken of the extra Best Picture slots.
EDIT: as for that Ebert contest, he got 13 right. Hey, I coulda split $100,000.
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