<p>Did anyone see and like this war movie?</p>
<p>First woman ever to win the best director award!!!</p>
<p>Awwww… Tom Hanks… Awww…</p>
<p>Apolo is back to posting- he spent some time with Sandra Bullock earlier today and thinks highly of her. He is very excited.
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<p>And the best dressed Oscar award goes to… Tina Fey! Her black shiny dress is gorgeous, and looks like something I would consider wearing to a gala party!</p>
<p>Favorite moments: seeing Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin ‘back stage’…James Taylor…watching how many people admired Meryl Streep. </p>
<p>Favorite acceptance: the supporting woman in Precious. (“it’s not about politics…”) sorry, didn’t know her name.</p>
<p>not sure if this has been addressed, yet, but…what was the whole george cloony thing about, towards the beginning? was he being that stoic on purpose? it was really putting me off to him…-_-</p>
<p>I can’t believe so many people don’t “get” George Clooney. He was playing along, like “That’s not funny.”</p>
<p>Loved Alec and Steve. So glad that “The Hurt Locker” won. I thought it was a great movie. I also loved Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart” but I thought Renner was great in “The Hurt Locker” too. Clooney was good in “Up in the Air” but I thought the women in the movie were better.</p>
<p>I liked Sandra Bullock’s thank you speech a lot. Funny (the comments about Meryl Streep), but also very touching when she spoke about her mother, and moms in general. I’m a sucker for that kind of thing.</p>
<p>I agree, Donna! Her speech was the best of the bunch.</p>
<p>Thank God Kathryn Bigelow won! James Cameron is a big d-bag and I really can’t stand him. 3-D is not the future. What is real and what is now is what wins awards. It doesn’t matter that your people were blue and spoke their own special language (thank you foreign film winner for that little jab). Oscar winners are things that show emotion and passion.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who thought that all the awards were totally predictable? </p>
<p>Well, OK, the best movie was a bit of a surprise (some cynics were predicting Avatar because it’s made so much money) in a good way. But all the other ones were predicted by just about everyone with an opinion…</p>
<p>I predicted every single award. The critics have too. Sometimes it is a tough race but through things like the Golden Globes, DGA, SAG, and PGA Awards it can really show who the true winners are.</p>
<p>katliamom, I was shocked that Sandra won, and I was shocked that Precious did not win the best film. The rest - pretty much predictable. Okay, I was expecting Hans Zimmer to win.</p>
<p>The only one of the big movies I’ve seen is Up in the Air. Want to see Precious, Crazy Heart, An Education and The Single Man.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen Single Man? I heard a clip from the movie on NPR, and I was boo-hooing just listenind to that scene.</p>
<p>Same here, youdon’tsay – the only one I saw of those five was Up in the Air, which I liked but never saw as a potential Best Picture. (I became so accustomed to going to see movies with J. all the time for so long, that I’m afraid I still haven’t gotten used to seeing movies by myself since he went away to college, and rarely do it.)</p>
<p>I’d like to see the others you mention, but have no real interest in seeing Avatar.</p>
<p>I don’t remember who it was that said something along the lines to Meryl Streep like “we’re going to cap the number of times an actor can be nominated for an Oscar at 16 so this is your last one”…but that was funny. I had no idea that Meryl Streep had been nominated that many times. I am a big fan! I am going to have to watch some of these movies now (except Avatar-it’s just not my type of movie). Some of the foreign films looked great to me too, but I don’t know how I’d go about seeing them.</p>
<p>Jimmel Kimmel is doing a postshow show.</p>
<p>Avatar hated on America. The Hurt Locker did not. Glad to see that Hollywood hasn’t completely lost all sensibility.</p>
<p>We saw (movies that got anod in any category):</p>
<p>Up
Up in the air
Princess and the frog
Avatar
Sherlock Holmes
Julia and Julie</p>
<p>Missed the Hurt Locker, but we will watch it on DVD. It sounds like the type of war movie we’ll enjoy - no gore and blood simply for the sake of gore and blood (Saving Private Ryan? After watching Schindler’s List I thought that one was too gory.) Have no desire to watch Precious or the other “big” one.</p>