80th annual Academy Awards thoughts

my thoughts on what happened at the Academy Awards are after the jump.



bulletpoint edition!

-Jon Stewart, once again, killed. With only a week of prep time, he did really well. People who say otherwise probably aren't fans. He should host every year.

-Not a lot of surprises in terms of awards. The only real surprises I thought were the 3 wins for The Bourne Ultimatum crew. well deserved since it's a great movie, but I wish No Country or There Will Be Blood could of snagged some of those.

-Best acceptance speech: I would say it's between Javier Bardem, The Coen Brothers for director, the Once crew, Diablo Cody and Daniel Day-Lewis. All very deserving winners with great speeches.

-Loved the friendly banter between Jon Stewart and Steve Carell. With Jon in New York, and Steve in L.A. they hardly get chances to interact anymore. So whenever they do, they are like old friends.

-Speaking of, I wish Stephen Colbert was there. it's a known fact that Jon and Stephen are a great team, and it would of been great to see them take a segment to riff. Oh Well!

-Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill: Killed! Definitely the best presenter bit of the night. Really the fact that they are on that stage is just mind blowing. To think a year ago today if you were to tell me that not only Seth Rogen would be presenting at the Oscars but Jonah Hill as well, I would of said you were full of shit. So very happy for their success.

-Speaking of Rogen and Hill, this part of an AP piece on Oscar weekend just made me very happy:

"FUNNYMEN UNITE: Oscar freshmen Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill were welcomed to the Kodak Theatre by sophomore Jon Stewart.
He jumped up and down on the side of the stage as the "Superbad" stars rehearsed for their Academy Awards debut on Saturday night. Stewart, who hosted the Oscars in 2006, rushed across the stage to greet them, then disappeared into the wings.
Wearing matching black horn-rimmed glasses, Rogen and Hill cracked jokes and scoped out their seats in the theater from the stage. Afterward, they met with Stewart in his dressing room.
"It's going to be so weird," Rogen told the show host. "It's so epic."
Stewart chatted with the pair before sending them on their way with a snack.
"Can I offer you a rugula?" he said.
Each actor took one of the cookie-like confections, then headed off."

That just makes my year.

And as quickly as that The Oscars are over for another year. Now it's time to predict what will be big at the 09 show. Scorsese's Shutter Island? Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? The Coens' Burn After Reading? Who knows. I would of said a year ago that American Gangster was a shoo-in to Best Picture, and look what happened there. Also who could of predicted Juno's gigantic success? We can predict all we want now, but we usually have no idea until the movies are actually completed and screening.