Monday, February 25, 2008

And The Oscars Goes To.... Violence!

Yeah I know this post is like super late. I've been busy for the past weeks, so I'll just pretend the Oscars happened last night. Seems the Academy is a bit choi this year. Last week the Oscars went to all the movies that has blood spurting all over the place. It wasn't different compared to the past shows. It was still boring, it was still predictable and Johnny Depp still didn't win!
The show was hosted by "funny man" Jon Stewart and all I can say is "Please bring back Ellen DeGeneres!" I mean no offense to Jon but seriously the guy isn't funny. His monologue at the start of the show was all about politics and none of them were funny at all. The whole day it was just Hillary and Obama, bla bla bla bla... Thank god the writer's strike ended. God knows what would have happened if it was only him writing the script.
This year was kinda special because I think this is the first time all the acting awards went to non-Americans. Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for his role in No Country For Old Men. Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. Tilda Swinton(the witch lady from Narnia) won Best Supporting Actress. And the super hot Marion Cotillard won Best Actress.
 Top honors went to the Coen brothers for they're movie, No Country For Old Men and like I said before, if your movie has no blood and rotting carcasses everywhere, you don't stand a chance. Other awards went to There Will Be Blood and Sweeney Todd.

Another highlight of the show was when they presented an In Memoriam video montage of all the actors/actresses and movie contributes who have passed away. Of course the best part of the montage was when they did a tribute to Heath Ledger who died on January 28th but surprisingly there were not much claps for him..wonder why? Another good part was when Amy Adams sang one of the songs from Enchanted on the stage. She may have looked good on the film but seriously watching her act like Giselle on stage was a bit geli...and another awkward part was when she shouted in super hig

h pitch "Wasn't this fun?" and then the music ended and there was no applause....sad.

I got the full list of winners here so enjoy...

BEST PICTURE   
No Country for Old Men
 
BEST DIRECTOR
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, Juno

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Counterfeiters (Austria)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Ratatouille

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
Sweeney Todd

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Taxi to the Dark Side

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Freeheld

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Peter and the Wolf

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Le Mozart des Pickpockets

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass

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