The Academy Awards this past Sunday night were very good. Here’s what I thought:
- Ellen Degeneres was a great host - she’s funny, and very real. I especially loved the vacuum skit towards the end.
- The dancers who created logos and other things from nominated movies was very, very awesome. I loved the Little Miss Sunshine one with the guy running behind it.
- Helen Mirren winning best actress for The Queen was pretty obvious, nice speech. Also, apparently she has been invited to have tea with the real Queen of England.
- Forest Whitaker for best actor was also obvious, but from the clip they showed from The Pursuit of Happyness (which I have yet to see) Will Smith looked like he had a good chance at it.
- And Forest Whitakers’s speech was definitelly better than the Golden Globes one, but it’s so weird how he’s the vicous and terrifying dictator in The Last King of Scotland, and then he’s like so nervous and stuff when he gets the award.
- The awards seemed pretty even until The Departed took the last two big ones: Best director and best film.
- Finally, I barely recognized Jack Nicholson bald. Here’s why.
The best part was when Leo prompted Gore to make an announcment, which he did just as the ‘your time is up’ music started playing.
Oh yeah! I completely forgot about that! That WAS hilarious.