Shhhhh…Silence is Golden
I wasn’t going to post about The Oscars because this is a television site, not a film site. Now that the award show is over I’ve realized that’s a pretty stupid way to look at it as The Oscars has very little to do with an Oscar. The other problem is while I did watch most of the ceremony, I watched it on mute as I had to work all of Sunday night. So let me take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts on this, the Super Bowl of Hollywood, based solely on what I was able to SEE and not HEAR (presented in no particular order).
- Ellen, I assume, did a great job as MC. People seem to be enjoying her wit and are finding her both charming and affable. I appreciate that she kept her role fairly low-fi. Low-fi goes a long way in a four-hour production.
- Why the hell did it take what seemed like a lifetime to get to the first award the casual film fan would care about?
- The silhouette/interpretive-thing for the best pictures seemed cool, though by saying it was “cool” I suddenly feel “uncool”
- Will Ferrell looked like he would have made me laugh had I been able to hear what was happening — this is frequently the case with Will Ferrell.
- I was afraid Jennifer Hudson was going to fall out of her dress. Honestly. During her singing performance there was so much jigglin’ I actually said a little prayer for the president of ABC hoping
heshe wasn’t going to face FCC fines. - While I didn’t hear it, Forest Whitaker’s speech looked amazing. He also looked like he was going to commit a homicide while walking off stage.
- Martin Scorsese seemed as pleased as punch.
- Thelma Schoonmaker is one classy lady, no?
- Of all of the major awards ceremonies, I think The Academy Awards actually gives out the fewest. If this is true, why does it take so god damn long?
- The graphics they used during the Best Editing presentation was AWESOME (showing three different pieces of film and having each highlighted for the shots they used).
- Is it just me or every year for like the past half-dozen or so has a really really young actress walked home with an award while paired against seasoned vets?
I taped the show and will watch it on fast forward later in the day. We’ll see if my opinions change.
February 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
-I thought Ellen might have played to the room too much (and not enough to the home viewer). After the last two hosts, though, I think she was not supposed to get attention.
-Don’t they do that for the best editing awards every year?
-I, too, feared the Forest.
-Speech of the night: Alan Arkin, I think. Marty’s was nice, too.
-Michael Mann’s America montage — not as good as the ones in Team America.
-Overall: Dull, serviceable.
Until next year …
February 26th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
BTW- The president of ABC is a woman, thus a “she” and not a “he.”
WOMYN RULE!
February 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Another way for me to put it:
I’m the kind of person who gets a kick out of Tom Cruise introducing Sherry Lansing (because of the Paramount connection), and I still thought it was boring.