Monday, March 06, 2006

Did the Oscars CRASH? haha I crack myself up...

The Oscars were last night and unfortunately due to some Ohio family because yes, I'm special enough to spend my spring break in Cleveland, I missed the red carpet completely. I was lucky enough to get in front of a TV in time to see the award shows. Sorry to dissapoint Nyn8v but I didn't get to see Isaac Mizrahi but if he was anything like he was at the Golden Globes I can only imagine. The show overall was ok I thought, some of it kind of predictable. I was happy to see George Clooney win because he had never won a huge award prior to this year but his speech was so cheesy it made me want to throw up. He kept talking about how proud he was to be a part of such a great academy...yadda yadda yadda. Rachel Weisz was no big surprise, neither was Ang Lee for Best Director. I was mildly surprised for Reese Witherspoon's win for Best Actress but then again it was either her or Felicity Huffman. Philip Seymour Hoffman, duh. That's all I can say. And then the big "upset" of Crash winning for Best Picture. A very smart man I know predicted that would win since it's a very LA movie, dealing with very LA themes and as we all know the award shows are held in you guessed it LA! Overall I think it was a better movie than Brokeback Mountain but still people love em' their gay cowboy love. Also, it's cool that Paul Haggis won two years in a row for two outstanding movies, last year of course he won for Million Dollar Baby. My favorite part of the evening though was when Jennifer Garner came out to present an award and tripped not once but oh yes twice and then fudged her lines. And to that I say karma, that's what you get for kicking Michael Vartan off Alias and then promptly getting the show canceled. It was the funniest moment ever, one that I just hope gets played on repeat on a late night show or Best Week Ever. Classic. Jon Stewart in my opinion was very funny although some jokes fell completely flat. 3 6 Mafia winning for Best Song, It's Hard Out There for a Pimp was the best acceptance speech of all time since you couldn't understand anything they were saying, yo yo yo was all you could make out amidst the bleeps they had to put in. That was certainly a way to add some color to the awards. Charlize Theron whom I believe is now strictly making movies with the intent of Oscar nominations, I mean Aeon Flux...definetly Oscar worthy was wearing a dress with a tuft of fabric that if placed the wrong way would cover her entire face...I don't understand stylists sometimes. Maybe she was just a bitch one time and that was her stylists way of getting back at her, if so she did a really good job.
There are reports that Macaulay Culkin is reevaluting his life and reconsidering getting back into showbiz. As the same very smart man once said to me, all the Culkin brothers are such great actors and with that in mind I'll let you ponder that report. Until next time.

3 comments:

bigdaddylebowski said...

I didn't see any of the Academy Awards show but I would have liked to see the Jennifer Garner mishap....too bad she didn't trip, fall, break her neck and thus become the first Oscar fatality in history. Felicity Huffman didn't win because her name is too similar to Philip Seymour Hoffman....Huffman, Hoffman...it's a rule or something.
I'm ashamed to admit I was up late watching Jay Leno and he said that song by 36 Mafia was from Kong...'It's Hard Out There For A Chimp'....which I thought was pretty funny...even if it was from Jay.
Who is this smart man you keep referring to?

Carolina Kid said...

I'm glad that Brokeback Mountain didn't win because then it would have drawn more attention to bigdaddylebowski and me. "I wish I could quit you!!"

Carolina Kid said...

On a serious note, there is a buzz in Hollywood that one of the reasons 'Crash' won is that many Academy members refused to watch Brokeback Mountain because of all the controversy and returned the movie without viewing it.