Last night was the most dull, and uneventful since 1998, when Titanic swept the awards. In fact, last night's 11 wins for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King tied that record with Titanic and Ben-Hur.
This was all great, except for the fact that I decided to take a couple of chances this year, and every time, the award went to the frontrunner. By the end of the night I was praying that Johnny Depp or Bill Murray would win, or that Sophia Coppola would win just to shake things up a bit. Alas, that never happened.
Incredibly, the only time I was really surprised was when "Harvie Krumpet" won the animated short instead of the Dali/Disney short "Destino." I imagine Roy Disney was shocked as well, and it's a shame, because I was looking forward to hearing his speech (which would have no doubt been a war cry for his attempts to reform Disney).
Fortunately, I only took a chance on a couple of categories, so I still won my bet. But the one category I really am disappointed in myself for missing was documentary, as I really, really wanted Errol Morris to win, but changed my pick at the last minute to Andrew Jerecki's Capturing the Friedmans.
As for the obligatory celebrity watching: Heather and I were waiting for Renee Zelwegger to hyperventilate in that dress of hers (I mean jeez...how tight was that corset she was wearing?)...I thought Errol Morris gave a great speech (and found it funny to see what a goofball he is when he's actually in front of the camera)...Jack Black and Will Ferrel were surprisingly good in their singing prior to handing out their award for original song...Sophia Coppola reminded us all why she's a much better writer and director than she was as an actress...I loved Sean Penn's quiet, restrained speech...ditto for Tim Robbins...I thought all the song performances were wonderful, especially "Belleville Rendezvous", which really makes me want to run out and see The Triplets of Belleville...speaking of songs, while she didn't win, did anyone else notice how great Annette O'Toole looked?
As always it was an entertaining show (and kept to a pretty tight schedule...it only went over by ten minutes or so), but after last year's surprise wins, I was hoping for a bit more excitement. Oh well. Hopefully next year will be another one that keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Posted by jason at March 1, 2004 11:09 AM
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Your URLs are all off, in that they don't link to the subjects you are talking about (e.g., Renee's dress actually links to Peter Jackson, etc.)
It actually went over like 30 mins. It was supposed to end at 11:30pm and ended up ending at just past midnight.
Maria Menounous was very hawt :drool: Owen Wilson looked straight at her boobs and said are those real? It was great.
I can't think of anything scarier than thinking you are going to look at Renee Zelwegger and finding Peter Jackson, but the URL is correct at the moment.
I have no nails.
Woops, sorry about that. I guess Yahoo's Reuters feed is dynamic and keeps changing URLs.
I've switched it to point directly to the images...which isn't nice, but I think Yahoo will survive that extra traffic. :)
Ditto on the singing--if anyone knows where to find it, I'd appreciat it. Their singing and Adrien Brody's Binaca made me laugh the hardest.
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