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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer
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Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Monday, March 24, 2003
Well, the OSCARS were once more upon us and have once again departed leaving behind a trail of mixed satisfaction, horror and much fuelled office/home debate. Keeping with tradition I spent all of last night watching the entire affair - sad, obsessive? Maybe. But what can I say, I'm a big old softy for the affair, despite its incessant unpredictability. Last night's show was another example of this.
On the whole, though, I do have to say none of the awards last night truly horrified me (unlike last year's sobbing Berry and cop-out Washington).
So, let's review:
First, the shorts, because let's face it, truly an area I have no idea about. The only short I had seen was "Mike's New Car", which was truly lovely, but I hear the ChubbChubbs rivalled last year's winner "For The Birds", so I imagine it deserved its little gold man.
Live Action – haven’t a clue in high hell whether “This Charming Man” deserved its award.
Was very pleased to see “Spirited Away” win for Animated Feature rather than the sickly pile of tosh that was Treasure Planet. Next year’s ceremony will no doubt see a battle between a majority of the upcoming Animatrix
series – already in giddy in anticipation for that!
Documentary Short went very predictably to ‘Twin Towers’, but not undeservedly, and I was whooping with glee to see Michael Moore go up to collect the gong for Docu-Feature for “Bowling for Columbine” – a wonderfully politically arrogant speech regarding America’s “fictitious” election, and thus president. Nice to see someone spice things up, despite the loud boos he received (though there were a lovely number of cheers working their way through).
The technical aspects – well, most of these went to Chicago, as the favourite film is usually ticked all the way through. It certainly deserved Art Direction, and I suppose Costume Design & Editing, but I was glad to see Cinematography go to Road to Perdition – we will miss that man sorely, and after seeing his work in American Beauty, I can understand how this film would look just as beautiful.
Visual Effects of course went to Lord of The Rings – how could anyone possibly deny Gollum that award – I just wish he was able to collect it himself! (“My Precious”)
Was surprised that ‘Adaptation’ didn’t win best adapted screenplay, but perhaps it contained one too many gibes at film writing to be popular enough. Giving the award to The Pianist seemed a little token to me, but since I haven’t seen it I can’t really comment.
Original Screenplay – would have liked “Far From Heaven” to take this one, but again I haven’t seen “Talk To Her” – although the fact that this wasn’t nominated for best foreign film makes me wonder as to how good a script it really could be.
Now, the Actors – was completely gobsmacked when Daniel Day-Lewis didn’t win like everyone expected. Since he seems to be the only reportedly good part of the much criticised ‘Gangs of New York’, this seems a shame, but I hear that Adrian Brody was indeed fantastic in ‘The Pianist’ - although I do wish they’d censored that sodding speech of his. It seemed odd that he used the holocaust as a good reason to never go to war (but if the US had gone to war earlier during the Holocaust, who knows how many lives might have been saved?). Expected Christopher Walken to win Best Supporting, but it was also really cool to see Chris Cooper recognised, though I was secretly rooting for John C Reilly.
I expected to see Catherine Zeta-Jones win for Best Supporting Actress, and am glad she did. She was very gracious, looked completely glowing, and it was really nice hearing her giggly Welsh lilt creeping through. And how sexy was the way Sean Connery said “Catherine” when announcing the award?!
And finally, Nicole Kidman! Hurrah, took them long enough. She should have got it last year, but at least ‘The Hours’ gave her a role that was truly deserving of the Oscar she took. Very stylish and lovely as always, although her eyebrows were a little scary. Was glad Renee didn’t win – I’d like her to win an Oscar when she puts some sodding weight back on.
Martin left empty handed – I think everyone expected him to leave with Best Direction, and I was surprised that they gave the award to the extremely controversial Roman Polanski, but in the end Chicago did walk away with the big one. Which is cool. It was a good and well packaged film with a good cast – I don’t really know of anyone who didn’t at least enjoy it. Not a amazingly deserved winner, but neither an obscenely horrifying one.
Steve Martin presented wonderfully – extremely amusing, with only one or two groan inducing jokes. Particular highlights for me were his comments on Nicole Kidman’s nose, and his speech about what it takes to be an Actor… “They can be short or tall, thin or skinny…”
On a female, dress obsessed matter – Nicole looked stylish, Renee looked lovely but way too skinny, Halle Berry’s dress was beautiful, damn her! Julia Roberts, Reece Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Mira Sorvino all looked lovely. Julianne Moore looks amazing in green, but those frills were not at all flattering. Jennifer Lopez looked stupid, Kathy Bates like a chocolate liqueur and Jennifer Garner’s dress was pretty but way too tight on her chest.
That’s it for now – what do you think?
5:18 pm
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