Final thoughts on the 84th Academy Awards

Thoughts on the 84^th Academy Awards

-       The Artist, as expected, is the big winner on the evening. Though it tied with Hugo for the most awards (5 each) it took home the more significant awards by far. 

Crystal hosted for the 9th time.

-       Billy Crystal, despite being met with scathing critiques by a number of individuals was ready to go and delivered what everyone should have expected. A by the books performance that took some shots, but also let Billy wax poetic about Gil Cates (a nice touch).

-       The montages, really??? While some were clever and funny…we rush Octavia Spencer off the stage so that we can see another montage that features an attempt to reel in the younger set with a lonesome Twilight clip that was WAY out of place.

-       As I tweeted last night, I still think Robert Richardson, who won Best Cinematography for Hugo, looks like Gandalf. 

-       Really, Whitney Houston helped you tease the In Memoriam segment? Yes she was in The Bodyguard, The Preacher’s Wife, Waiting to Exhale and the yet to be released Sparkle and should have been included..but that really doesn’t show the talent that passed well.

-       Didn’t see the Sacha Baron Cohen interview with Ryan Seacrest until this morning, but weird…definitely. Wouldn’t it have been funnier if he had bodyguards that tackled the guys from the accounting firm with the winners? Maybe trying to replace the briefcases with his own winners? Just sayin…

-       I tweeted last night…why do we wait to get to animated feature at 845 CT? If we are going to get kids at all interested…why didn’t we have that earlier? (Though my daughter did LOVE the early love shown to Hugo.) 

-       Glad to see a non political film (in ANY way) win for documentary – though I’m still partial to the not nominated – but Spirit Award winning doc The Interrupters.

-       Hopefully we’ll get the Best Song category right one day (there should have been more than 2 nominees) but the best song won anyway.

The Artist wins 5 Trophies.

-       And Finally…If you want to win the big awards - make sure your movie is good and has some relevance to the movies. – 12/24 winners last night were for films that had to do with the movies in some way, shape or form. 

o   The Artist (5) this one is obvious.

o   Hugo(5) also obvious.

o   Beginners(1) features a French actress in Melanie Laurent

o   Midnight in Paris (1) features a screenwriter

All in all a decent end to the year – now on to 2012 movies – I’m sure the odds on next year’s Best Picture winner will be out soon!

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