Oscar Roundup

I always try to watch the Academy Awards each year. I usually try to see close to all of the films in the best picture category, but this year, I think I only watched half of them. I watched Avatar, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, and Up. I still want to see A Serious Man and An Education.

Out of all the awards, I was really happy with:

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz of Inglourious Basterds
Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges of Crazy Heart
Animated Feature Film: Up
Music (Original Score): Up

I happened to watch Up a week or so ago when someone brought the dvd to work and instantly fell in love with it, so I was happy that it snagged a couple of awards. I especially loved the music, so the win there was awesome!

I love both Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz, so I'm glad they won their categories. Even though I have not watched Crazy Heart, I love Jeff Bridges in almost all his movies. & Christoph Waltz was the perfect actor for the role he played in Inglorious Basterds - to me, he made that movie what it is.

The only upset I had was with Sandra Bullock winning Actress in a Leading Role for Blindside. I have not watched the movie, but my boyfriend has, and he even thought her winning was a joke. I've never been a huge Sandra Bullock fan, so maybe I'm just judging this based on my feelings toward her, but I believe she won because two of the girls nominated were roughly unknown and the other two did not have very popular roles. Either way, I'm not happy with it. It's good and all that she won her first oscar, but I'm over her.

All in all, I wasn't totally disappointed with the Oscars, but I feel like it could have been better. It was very so so.

My Thoughts on the Oscars

Did you guys watch the Oscars last night? For the first time ever, I watched it from beginning to end. I had forgotten how long award shows can be!

I'm happy with most of the results, even though I regret to say that I didn't see any of the nominated films this year. The only film that was related to any category that I did see was Tropic Thunder lol. Last year I'm pretty sure I saw almost every single one of the films nominated before the Oscars even aired. That was probably because I had just started dating my boyfriend last year and we had a lot of movie dates. This year, we have been cutting back on the amount of movies we see for full price at the theater and tend to go to the discount theaters when we can. However, I'm glad Kate Winslet won because I'm starting to realize how awesome she is as an actress and as a person. I'm also really glad that Milk won best original screenplay and Sean Penn won for best actor. Sean Penn really makes me want to go watch Milk! And of course Heath Ledger's win was very heartbreakingly wonderful and well deserved. Even though I don't really like repetition and I haven't seen the movie yet, I think Slumdog Millionaire looked to deserve all it's wins too. I also really liked how they had the awards set up and the one thing that stood out to me the most was the fact that they had past winners give acknowledgement to the nominees and hand out awards in their categories. I thought that was really great.

All in all, I actually enjoyed the show this year. It seemed better than it normally does. Maybe it was because I watched the entire thing, start to finish, or maybe I was just in the mood for an award show, who knows. I now want to go watch Milk, The Reader, Rachel Getting Married, Frost/Nixon and Doubt - in that order.

What did you think of the Oscars this year?