Oscar© Autopsy

[Uncle Sparky]

Well the 77th Academy Awards have been announced. I'd like to thank the Academy for making me $100 richer in the pool at our theatre.

So, what do you think of the winners? I picked the top 6 - Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Actress, so I basically agree with the voters on those ones.

Anyone else make a bit of money on the Oscars? Is anyone here outraged by any of the winners, or just bored ?

[Urban Ranger]

Bored

[Agathon]

Chris Rock was the best thing about it, apart from Morgan Freeman being honoured.

And I didn't know that Elmer Bernstein had died.

[Bkeela]

I wondered where they dredged up the host from.

[Proteus_MST]

IMHO it was a mediocre show.
There were better hosts for the show in the past, just as Billy Crystal or Whoopie Goldberg
(although I don´t want to say that Chris Rock was bad, just that there were better ones ) .
I also didn´t like the new procedure of not presenting some of the Oscars on the stage but instead withhin the auditorium.
(This way the Oscars seemed to be divided into two classes, the better ones where you could go ionto the stage and give your speech and the lesser ones where you weren´t allowed to do it)
Aside from this there were few surprises.
As the Aviator got more and more Awards for more technical categories, you could easily predict, that he wouldn´t get awards for the bigger categories (like actor in a leading role or best film )
What I really didn´t like was the Oscar for the best song. IMHO there were much better songs, like the songs from Chorus or Shrek 2.
And of course I´d liked to see the Oscar for best foreign film go to "The Downfall"

[Agathon]

There were better hosts for the show in the past, just as Billy Crystal or Whoopie Goldberg

Might as well have had John Ashcroft hosting it in that case.

[molly bloom]

It was a real pleasure to see Hilary S**** filling in for Gwyneth Plastic and Halle Berry this time.

Of course Halle did win a Razzie for 'Catwoman' but accepted it in good heart and with grace.

And at last the acting ability of Cate Blanchett gets recognised- a rather late consolation prize for the Academy's overlooking of her performance in 'Elizabeth'.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Billy Crystal

Man, I miss him!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by molly bloom
It was a real pleasure to see Hilary S**** filling in for Gwyneth Plastic and Halle Berry this time.

@ the autocensor.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Sw@nk .

s'W@nker.

Sw@nked all day and all night.

[Timexwatch]

Chris Rock was, in my opinion, a great host because he managed to puncture the air of self-importance that many of these celebrities have. If it was just a night to celebrate the artform, it wouldn't need to be televised. But it is televised, and it usually ends up a self-congratulatory circle jerk.

I'm glad to see that Rock somewhat recognizes the excess of America's obsession with celebrity.

[GePap]

At first I thought that Aviator was going to be like Return of the King last year, winning the bulk of the awards- while I am not surprised that Clint beat Martin for best director, I was surprised that Million Dollar baby won, thought happy, cause I think it was the best movie of the year.

I thought Sidney Lumet's acceptance speech was great.

As for making the telecast end of time, which was why they gave out Oscars on the floor, maybe next time don't sing all the god damned nominated songs! And I miss not seeing clips of the animated short features.

[Zkribbler]

What was with having Carlos Santana accompany Antonio Banderas's ballad?? It was like putting chili peppers on an ice cream sundae.

Most of the clothing was boring. Thank God for Prince -- a purple coat over pink pants. That guy has style.

I miss Miss Piggy as co-host. No one can act the stupendous poor sport like Miss Piggy. She gets to say what everyone else is thinking.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That guy has style.

If you thought that was style....