Oscars
Tonight was the Academy Awards, which as usual went on for far longer than they needed to.
It was around 11:00 pm, and there were still about six awards to give out, and these were the big ones. I told J1, "This is going to take at least another hour or hour and a half." She said, "It will be done in thirty minutes."
Being the experienced Oscar-watcher that she is, she was right. But I have to say it makes no sense to me. It's like they suddenly realize "Holy Crap! We've been here for three hours. Let's get this show over with so we can start the after-parties already!" If they kept up that pace for the whole show, we'd be done in like 90 minutes and everyone would be happy.
It is a mystery to me why it takes far more time to give out awards for Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing than for Director, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, and Best Actress. If anything, it seems like more time should be devoted to the latter categories. But what do I know.
Jon Stewart was great as the host. He's funny and makes good jokes on the fly.
The main reason I found the show palatable was because this year I entered an Oscar pool. As has been proven convincingly by the NCAA tournament, if you bet on something, it becomes much more interesting. I would say betting is about the only way to make people care about who wins Best Animated Short, just like it's the only way to make them care who wins a first-round game between Coppin State and Texas Tech.
My picks were ok, but not great. If Crash hadn't upset Brokeback for best picture, I would have been pretty satisfied with my results (I still don't know how I scored compared to others in the pool). Out of 62 possible points, I got 47. I picked 19 out of 25 categories correctly.
Three of my misses were in the "nobody has any freaking clue" category (Documentary Short, Animated Short, Live Action Short), which is fine (they were only worth one point each). But then I missed on Original Song and Cinematography (each worth three) and Best Picture (worth five).
I can hardly imagine that my score will put me anywhere near first or second place in the pool, which means I'm out of the money. But it was only a $3 investment to make the night a little more interesting, so that's fine.
[Edit] For far mor entertaining Oscars analysis, check out The Sports Guy on ESPN.com. Best line:
Part of me still thinks Jack Nicholson saw "Brokeback Mountain" on the winner card, took a deep breath, said to himself, "Screw it, I hated that movie," called an audible and said, "And the Oscar goes to ... Crash!"
It was around 11:00 pm, and there were still about six awards to give out, and these were the big ones. I told J1, "This is going to take at least another hour or hour and a half." She said, "It will be done in thirty minutes."
Being the experienced Oscar-watcher that she is, she was right. But I have to say it makes no sense to me. It's like they suddenly realize "Holy Crap! We've been here for three hours. Let's get this show over with so we can start the after-parties already!" If they kept up that pace for the whole show, we'd be done in like 90 minutes and everyone would be happy.
It is a mystery to me why it takes far more time to give out awards for Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing than for Director, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, and Best Actress. If anything, it seems like more time should be devoted to the latter categories. But what do I know.
Jon Stewart was great as the host. He's funny and makes good jokes on the fly.
The main reason I found the show palatable was because this year I entered an Oscar pool. As has been proven convincingly by the NCAA tournament, if you bet on something, it becomes much more interesting. I would say betting is about the only way to make people care about who wins Best Animated Short, just like it's the only way to make them care who wins a first-round game between Coppin State and Texas Tech.
My picks were ok, but not great. If Crash hadn't upset Brokeback for best picture, I would have been pretty satisfied with my results (I still don't know how I scored compared to others in the pool). Out of 62 possible points, I got 47. I picked 19 out of 25 categories correctly.
Three of my misses were in the "nobody has any freaking clue" category (Documentary Short, Animated Short, Live Action Short), which is fine (they were only worth one point each). But then I missed on Original Song and Cinematography (each worth three) and Best Picture (worth five).
I can hardly imagine that my score will put me anywhere near first or second place in the pool, which means I'm out of the money. But it was only a $3 investment to make the night a little more interesting, so that's fine.
[Edit] For far mor entertaining Oscars analysis, check out The Sports Guy on ESPN.com. Best line:
Part of me still thinks Jack Nicholson saw "Brokeback Mountain" on the winner card, took a deep breath, said to himself, "Screw it, I hated that movie," called an audible and said, "And the Oscar goes to ... Crash!"
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