The 2010 Oscars (82nd, to be precise) were, by far, my favorite to date. This may have more to do with the fact that I was watching it with amazing people (most of who were drunk) as we did our own acceptance speeches with our fake Oscar and ate food and (in my case) started randomly crying about African American hair (long story). But I really felt that, even sober, this would have been an excellent Oscars. And here is why (in the always convenient bullet form):
- Length: Yay!!!! The Oscars ended at 12:02 am for me...only 2 minutes after 12 am! Sure it was 4 hours. But most years are not 2 but 45 minutes after 12 am. This felt nice and short
- Crazy Red Headed Lady: Love her or hate her, you cannot deny she spiced up the always boring short film categories. Elinor Burkett, the producer of the film Music By Prudence ran up on stage and blatently interrupted the award acceptor Roger Ross Williams. And we later learn that Williams’ very old mother may have tripped her with a cane...priceless
- Odd Speech by Sean Penn: A must for any good Oscars! What was he talking about? Did he blatently bash all the Best Actress nominees as he’s about to announce the winner? Sean Penn, you never cease to amaze me in your awkwardness.
- Sandra Bullock’s Speech: Did she deserve the Oscar? God no. But did she deserve a separate award for that amazing, suttle speech? Yes. With little comedic references (“Meryl streep who’s such a good kisser”) to emotional yet always upbeat statement (“thank you for not letting me ride in cars with boys till I was 18...I would do everything you said I would do”), it was a gorgeous, royal speech.
- John Hughes Tribute: The Breakfast Club. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The list can go on and on for director John Hughes, whose high school coming of age stories not only defined the 80’s but also told the tough lives teenagers have to go through. The Academy brilliantly brought back child stars like Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick to remember this legendary man.
- Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin being dicks- and being so good at it! Just look at Clooney’s face!!!!
It was good. I didn’t do great with predictions (a measly 16/24) though I got all the big ones right). The biggest upset of the night (and it wasn’t that big) was Precious’ win over Up in the Air for Adapted Screenplay as well as the general dislike to Avatar, where it failed to get awards in sound. While most people thought The White Ribbon was a lock for Best Foreign Language film, it was surpassed last minute by The Secret in their Eyes)
*subtle
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