Hurra!
It's a rare thing that live tv makes me shout with joy, but it did when The Lives of Others won for best foreign language. That was my movie of 2006, and I love it to bits, as I have rambled on quite a bit in this journal before. And I was so afraid that with all the Pan's Labyrinth hype, it would not get a vote. So very happy!
The rest of the results are pleasing, too, though poor Peter O'Toole, not getting it for an eighth time. When Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas all came out as presenters, I knew Scorsese would win - no way they'd choose the 70s trio and not give it to him. Mind you, while I liked The Departed I think Letters from Iwo Jima is the better movie, but Eastwood has won twice in the recent past (and once against Scorsese when Marty should have won, for Aviator), and I've got a soft spot for the Italian motormouth, so that balanced each other out.
Also? Graham King lauding Leonardo de Caprio to the skies was a) deserved and b) a great thing to do.
Back to work now.
The rest of the results are pleasing, too, though poor Peter O'Toole, not getting it for an eighth time. When Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas all came out as presenters, I knew Scorsese would win - no way they'd choose the 70s trio and not give it to him. Mind you, while I liked The Departed I think Letters from Iwo Jima is the better movie, but Eastwood has won twice in the recent past (and once against Scorsese when Marty should have won, for Aviator), and I've got a soft spot for the Italian motormouth, so that balanced each other out.
Also? Graham King lauding Leonardo de Caprio to the skies was a) deserved and b) a great thing to do.
Back to work now.