This and that on Oscar Sunday 2008

First, there's still time to guess the movie quote. It'll be open until the end of the Oscar telecast, so take you're best shot. All but two are fairly common movies, if that helps.

Second, I haven't really said much this season about snubs, aside from "Sweeney Todd" not getting a Best Picture nomination. There are a few worthy folk out there that deserve some recognition. For Best Actor, I'd lift out Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah and pop in Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Savages. Actress is a fairly strong category, but if one had to go, it'd be Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I'd replace her with Naomi Watts from Eastern Promises. Supporting Actor is another strong category, but this is where the most obvious slights occurred (IMHO) so both Casey Affleck The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and PSH for Charlie Wilson's War have to go in order to make way for Ben Foster 3:10 to Yuma and the unbelievably great Paul Dano There Will Be Blood. Supporting Actress is fine the way it is. Original Screenplay should have a nomination for Superbad but moving any of those other films would be difficult. And on the tech side, seriously Michael Clayton should have an editing nomination. And I don't really "get" Ratatouille getting noms in the sound categories - it makes sense in a way, but at the same time, it's a little bit strange. ETA: I totally forgot Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd, so put him on the list and toss Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Third, it needs to stop raining. Seriously. It's ridiculous. We've had more days of rain in the past two months than in the previous two years.

Fourth, the NHL scheduling people irritate me. My beloved Blackhawks are playing in Anaheim tonight. Game time coincides with the Oscars, so I'll have to run the silent "real time" scoreboard while the show is on. Hopefully there will be something to listen to tonight after the proceedings. BTW, the reaction of the announcers to yesterday's action was pretty much the same that I had.

I need to finish my prep for tonight. So it's off to the store (or maybe farmer's market) for me, then back here for some more fun and maybe a pre-game nap.

This and that on Oscar Sunday 2008

First, there's still time to guess the movie quote. It'll be open until the end of the Oscar telecast, so take you're best shot. All but two are fairly common movies, if that helps.

Second, I haven't really said much this season about snubs, aside from "Sweeney Todd" not getting a Best Picture nomination. There are a few worthy folk out there that deserve some recognition. For Best Actor, I'd lift out Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah and pop in Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Savages. Actress is a fairly strong category, but if one had to go, it'd be Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I'd replace her with Naomi Watts from Eastern Promises. Supporting Actor is another strong category, but this is where the most obvious slights occurred (IMHO) so both Casey Affleck The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and PSH for Charlie Wilson's War have to go in order to make way for Ben Foster 3:10 to Yuma and the unbelievably great Paul Dano There Will Be Blood. Supporting Actress is fine the way it is. Original Screenplay should have a nomination for Superbad but moving any of those other films would be difficult. And on the tech side, seriously Michael Clayton should have an editing nomination. And I don't really "get" Ratatouille getting noms in the sound categories - it makes sense in a way, but at the same time, it's a little bit strange. ETA: I totally forgot Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd, so put him on the list and toss Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Third, it needs to stop raining. Seriously. It's ridiculous. We've had more days of rain in the past two months than in the previous two years.

Fourth, the NHL scheduling people irritate me. My beloved Blackhawks are playing in Anaheim tonight. Game time coincides with the Oscars, so I'll have to run the silent "real time" scoreboard while the show is on. Hopefully there will be something to listen to tonight after the proceedings. BTW, the reaction of the announcers to yesterday's action was pretty much the same that I had.

I need to finish my prep for tonight. So it's off to the store (or maybe farmer's market) for me, then back here for some more fun and maybe a pre-game nap.

2nd Round of Oscar Predictions - The "Major" Categories

This is the next and final group of predictions.

( And The Winners Should Be... )

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( Random Ceremony-Related Predictions )

That's all for now, folks. Will recap after the show, unless something strikes me as interesting before then.

2nd Round of Oscar Predictions - The "Major" Categories

This is the next and final group of predictions.

( And The Winners Should Be... )

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
( Random Ceremony-Related Predictions )

That's all for now, folks. Will recap after the show, unless something strikes me as interesting before then.

It's all so anti-climactic

So that's it. The awards are in the books. I pretty well missed on most of my predictions. Little disappointed that PTA didn't get anything, but it was the Coens' year. That's fine. They do good work, they deserve to get recognized. I thought Jon Stewart was funny, Tilda Swinton was gorgeous, and Marketa Irglova had the best speech of the night. (Although I will admit to getting a little choked up by the two ladies that won for "Freeheld" - I had no idea what that film was about and it just brought home once again the power of the medium to change minds.) And how awesome was it that the last words spoken by any of the evening's winners were Scott Rudin thanking his partner. That was pretty awesome.

I talked to my family during the commercial breaks. It was funny, the first call I got was right before it started from my brother's girlfriend. She stated that my brother was acting strange and dancing around the room and being generally giddy. I told her this was actually quite normal behavior for him during Oscar night - she missed out last year because they went to a party, so he had to appear more subdued. I had a party one year. 11 people in a room the size of a shoebox. It was fun, but too distracting. I had my ex over a couple of years ago. She just kept wondering why I had food for a small army when it was just the two of us. That wasn't a bad year though because we'd seen everything but one film, so we were pretty knowledgable going in. She didn't get the madness either. BTW, I think we were together the year the NHL was on strike, so she completely missed that side of me too.

On that note, the less said about the Blackhawks game tonight, the better.

By the way, I posted the answers to the "Guess the movie" meme. Check out the madness here. Either I like some obscure movies or I just took some quotes that wouldn't be thought of right off the bat, or maybe a little of both.

It's all so anti-climactic

So that's it. The awards are in the books. I pretty well missed on most of my predictions. Little disappointed that PTA didn't get anything, but it was the Coens' year. That's fine. They do good work, they deserve to get recognized. I thought Jon Stewart was funny, Tilda Swinton was gorgeous, and Marketa Irglova had the best speech of the night. (Although I will admit to getting a little choked up by the two ladies that won for "Freeheld" - I had no idea what that film was about and it just brought home once again the power of the medium to change minds.) And how awesome was it that the last words spoken by any of the evening's winners were Scott Rudin thanking his partner. That was pretty awesome.

I talked to my family during the commercial breaks. It was funny, the first call I got was right before it started from my brother's girlfriend. She stated that my brother was acting strange and dancing around the room and being generally giddy. I told her this was actually quite normal behavior for him during Oscar night - she missed out last year because they went to a party, so he had to appear more subdued. I had a party one year. 11 people in a room the size of a shoebox. It was fun, but too distracting. I had my ex over a couple of years ago. She just kept wondering why I had food for a small army when it was just the two of us. That wasn't a bad year though because we'd seen everything but one film, so we were pretty knowledgable going in. She didn't get the madness either. BTW, I think we were together the year the NHL was on strike, so she completely missed that side of me too.

On that note, the less said about the Blackhawks game tonight, the better.

By the way, I posted the answers to the "Guess the movie" meme. Check out the madness here. Either I like some obscure movies or I just took some quotes that wouldn't be thought of right off the bat, or maybe a little of both.