Oscar Night 2012: The Year I Kind of Stopped Caring
Best Picture Nominees seen: 3 out of 9
No. of times daughter needed feeding: 3
No. of dirty diapers changed: Also 3 ( Read more... )

Oscar Night 2010: Let Us Now Make Fun of James Cameron
Best Picture nominees seen: 8 out of 10
...which I thought deserved the nomination: 5
Award prediction standings: 13 out of 24
Truly awful couture: 6
...which were by the same designer: 3 or 4, apparently
Laughs in the opening "dialogue": 9 (far more than expected)
Videos/Production numbers ( Read more... )

As you know, today is my second-favourite day of the year. No, not Groundhog Day (though we certainly watched Phil this morning, thank you Weather Channel for cutting to commercial). No, not the Lost premiere (though I will certainly be subjected to that later this evening). That's right, the Oscar nominations were announced about an hour ago ( Read more... )

Stealing this meme from cynthia_black, because it's awesome.

Films I've seen that were nominated for Best Picture Oscar (in bold, partials in italics):

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae
1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday that I've been doing this for seven years... and it is still not funny.

Oscar Night 2009: Theme Party!
No. of Best Picture noms seen: All 5!
No. of awards predicted correctly: 15 out of 24 (the Prof got 11)
...which were a total guess: 10
No. of format changes: At least 5
...which worked: 3
No. of times Hugh Jackman broke ( Read more... )

Ocscar 2008: The French Connection
No. of jokes about the writers' strike: 3
No. of well-deserved laughs in opening monologue: 8 (Welcome back, Mr. Stewart!)
Instances of truly terrible couture: only 3 (?!)
No. of awards predicted correctly: 14 out of 24
No. of Best Picture nominees seen: 4 out of 5, alas!
No. of categories I totally guessed at: ( Read more... )

This is the post what I should have finished yesterday. But, you know the adage: shit happens, and in my case it tends to happen all at once ( Read more... )

No. of political jokes: roughly 8
...which fell flat with the audience...: Most
...but which made one of us at home actually choke on something: 2
Likelihood of Jon Stewart hosting again: Sadly, I imagine quite low
Gimmicky presentations Mr. F enjoyed but which I thought were sort of stupid: 2
Thoroughly hideous dresses: only 2 (Charlize Theron's ( Read more... )

My original plan for today was to catch a matinee of a local production of Proof. In actuality, I went to see Mrs. Henderson Presents (and the plan with that was to have my mother join me so she could pay for the tickets, but if you zoom in on my empty wallet, you'll see that didn't happen either). I think Mrs. Henderson was this year's Being ( Read more... )

Traditionally, this is the entry where I have my Annual Oscar Audit, but I'm afraid that this year, I just can't seem to muster up much enthusiasm. ruthven05 and I did finally manage to catch Sideways in the afternoon, which restored at least some of my faith in Hollywood after a vaguely disappointing year (maybe this is what I get for actively seeking out ( Read more... )