For those of us who stayed up till Stupid O'clock to watch it streamed live on dodgy wifi connections, we have our reward in full. However, most normal people just want the bullet points so they can impress people with their general knowledge. So, really quickly, here are the key things you need to know about last night's 83rd Academy Awards:
The Oscars are "cool" - James Franco and Anne Hathaway (otherwise known as "those pretty young things") did their utmost to demonstrate that the Oscars are hip. However, Franco looked like he had taken a few too many chill pills, whereas Hathaway definitely needed a few more.
Don't do drugs kids Surprise! - While it's no real surprise that The King's Speech won Actor in a leading role (Firth doing a thoroughly good job with a spiffing acceptance speech) and Best Picture, what was a surprise was that Hooper won best Director, especially given that the BAFTAs had given it to Fincher for Social Network. How terribly odd.
Unforgivable Snub #1 - While there were no huge surprises on the night, there were two notable snubs. The most horrendous oversight being that Christopher Nolan (pictured, in all his beauty, above) was not even nominated in the Best Director category for Inception. This is a particularly grave error when you consider the film was nominated for best picture and won Oscars for Sounds Editing, Sound mixing (whatever the difference is!), Visual Effects and Cinematography, all good indicators of a well directed film!
Unforgivable Snub #2 - Roger Deakins missed out in the Cinematography category for his work on True Grit. Now, Inception is a worthy winner, but consider that Deakins still has never won an Oscar, despite being responsible for such gems as The Assassination of Jesse James, The Shawshank Redemption, and pretty much the entire Coen Brothers back-catalogue, and you appreciate what an outright travesty this is!
Best Actor in a Supporting Lead role - Both best Actor and Actress in a Supporting Role went to The Fighter, with Christian Bale and Melissa Leo both picking up the hallowed Golden Fella - not to mention Amy Adams also being nominated! No problems there, but surely this is at least in part down to the brilliantly under-played central performance of Mark Walhberg, allowing the supporting roles to become larger than life, while he remains the peace in the storm, grounding the whole affair. Go team!
Best Film in the Foreign language that no-one has seen or probably ever will - Some kind of Danish effort called "In a Better World". I know nothing about it other than the poster looks really dull and intense.
Aron Sorkin won Best Adapted Screenplay - Nothing much to say, other than he is a dude, he did the best acceptance speech, choked up to cover the fact that he forgot his wife's name, and he once said a question that I asked him was, and I quote, "A good question..." Here's a picture because you love him...
And Finally... - Some kids sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" which almost made me throw up the inhuman amount of popcorn I had eaten. How NOT to end a show! I will leave you with a picture of the cherubs...
No comments:
Post a Comment