So I watched the Oscars last night, as you know. All 4 hours of them...

Best Picture: The Departed
Achievement in Directing: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Achievement in Cinematography: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Film Editing: The Departed
Achievement in Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others - Germany
Best Original Song: I Need to Wake Up, Music and Lyrics by Melissa Etheridge, An Inconvenient Truth
Acheivement in Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Best Original Score: Babel
Best Art Direction: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Documentary Short: The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Achievement in Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Achievement in Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Animated Short Film: The Danish Poet
Best Live-Action Short Film: West Bank Story
Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine


I was glad that Little Miss Sunshine got two. I didn't think it would win Best Picture, and I didn't think Abigail Breslin would win. It's really amazing and I am so happy for Jennifer Hudson. She lost American Idol, and then goes on to win an Oscar. I' was glad that Alan Arkin won, of course, but I had seen some clips from Blood Diamond and I think that Djimon Hounsou did really well. I didn't see the other movies in the Best Documentary Feature category, but I didn't agree with the Academy's choice of An Inconvenient Truth. In my opinion, that was hardly a documentary. It was Al Gore standing in front of a screen talking about global warming, and it reminded me of a science class lecture.

Ellen DeGeneres was so freakin hilarious, of course!!

"If there weren't any black, Jews, and gays there would be no Oscars!... or anyone named Oscar..."
-Ellen Degeneres

[singing] "A comedian at the Oscars is the saddest.. bitterest... alcoholic..."
-Will Ferrell

"I'll beat you down with my Nickelodeon Award!"
-Jack Black

"Sound editing is like sex; Usually done alone, in a dark room, and surrounded by lots of electronic gadgets."
-Steve Carell

[in the crowd]"Oh, Martin Scorsese, hi, how ya doin'?... Boy, it's hot in here [fans herself]. Oh, what's this in my hand? Oh, it's a screenplay I wrote!"
-Ellen Degeneres

[reiterating what his kids told him to say in his speech]"Thank all the men for dressing like penguins..."
-George Miller, producer of Happy Feet

"Valium does work!"
-William Monehan, writer of The Departed

[goes into crowd, hands a camera to Stephen Speilberg, and sits next to Clint Eastwood]"I wanna take a picture for MySpace."
-Ellen Degeneres

[You know those shadow people in the car commercial. They're so flexible and they all roll all over to turn into one object? They were at the Oscars, and Ellen went behind the screen and the did Snakes on a Plane and when she comes back out...] "They're naked!"

"And I love a full figured woman.. who can sing her heart out. But enough about me!"
-John Travolta




I really wish I had seen more of those movies. The nominees for Best Documentary Short looked really good, so I'm gonna look for them when I can.




Man, when I was watching the Oscars, all I could think about was how much I wanted to be there. Don't worry, you guys. You'll be in my acceptance speech for sure.