Academy Awards Recap

Well, the Oscar party (read: Ann and Brad go to the Stahleys and watch it on their new giant TV) just got done and I decided to recap because I took some notes of highlights. This is my attempt to emulate IBBB (see "Celebrity..."link at right).

*Note 1: this is significant that I am doing this because my spacebar is busted and sometimes i have to hit it several times for it to work. iMac, here I come.
*Note 2: SPOILER ALERT. Ifyou don't want to know winners,stop reading.

Red carpet highlight: Gary Busey accosts Jennifer Garner and she doesn't even try to hide her fear. It was a mix of crazy + I want to be sure to get on camera.

John Stewart is ALWAYS funny. He's still my original Jewish boyfriend.

I love that Enchanted had 3 nominations and they reenacted them. The Amy Adams performance (of the3)was the best, mainly because she was so good in the film.

We learned that celebs have wrinkles and Brad is not the only person in the world with crows feet(ok, HE learned).

The food was tasty: wraps, pizza, raspberry tart, fruit and cheese plate, chocolates, and spaghetti squash, which Brad said was too crunchy.

My favorite of the night: my NEW Jewish boyfriend Seth Rogen and his mini-me Jonah something-of-other are introduced as Halle Berry and Dame Judy Dench and spend their monologue arguing over which of them is more Halle-like. They are funny and the clip will make my blog if it ends up on YouTube.

Javier Barden wins best supporting actor, the first of several wins for the film, and I am thankful that I saw it. He was REALLY good.

We play a new game called "Seen It". It is similar to the shout-out-the-name-during-the-montage game. They showed every film that won best picture and we yelled "Seen it"if we had seen it, "Own It"if we own it, and a few times we added "LOVEd IT". It was funny.

John Stewart is funny. It's like he has a hidden camera in our place. After the film editing award,he says "Someone just took the lead on their Oscar pool based on a guess." Funny thing is: I had actually seen the movie and knew it would win.

Once: I liked this movie, Brad and Nic did not (in fact, hated it). I LOVED the main song and thought it would win. After mocking the song, Brad and Bill did NOT get a point for picking a winner--I did: it won best original score. The girl didn't get to share her speech so they let her come back after the commercial to say live your dreams, this is for all of the independent artists and musicians. It was sweet.

Final highlight:as expected, Diablo Cody won for her screenplay for Juno. I wish Ellen Page had won best actress but knew that was a long shot, so at least the woman who created the character Juno won. And her acceptance speech was sweet.

It was all anticlimactic from there. No Country for Old Men won everything, and it deserved it. And I vowed to watch more movies this coming year because I had barely seen anything up for awards this year.

**I am going to kill my spacebar.**