Right After Oscar Ceremony
Random comments about the most important night for cinema.
A small note: I wasn't able to see the whole ceremony. I'm italian, so in my country the ceremony starts around 3 a.m, after a long red carpet. Don't mentioning the 15 minutes I spent to find a (illegal) streaming channel to see the prize giving live broadcasting. Yes, I'm a nerd, so I'm quite used to spend nights on pc, but I come back home at 23:00 after 7 hours of office, and guess what? I always use pc for working, with headphones. My brain was melting down, so, after Horror Tribute (around 4:12 am) I decided that was the right time to sleep! XD
First of all, this year I guessed 10 winners of the 24 cathegories. Well, better than last year, but I don't improve my skill, it's just this year there were few surprises. 24% of right predictions...I'm still a shit. ç_ç
After a long time I was finally able to see part of show, even if the video was a little pixelled and the quality was, well, youtube like. It was really funny chatting compulsively with hardcore fans and people who didn't see a single nominated movie at the same time: quite crazy, but funny. XD
About the show itself; it wasn't great as last year, I've to admit that Martin/Baldwin couple wasn't innovative at all and it didn't help to make ceremony moving along. Instead, I find absolutely hylarious , probabily the most funny moment at all Tina Fey/ Robert Downey Jr presentation of Original Screenplay prize. These two together are simply amazing, they both have sense of humour and comic times. Unfortunately no one have uploaded the clip on Youtube yet...sad! And no, Ben Stiller's Avatar Parody wasn't so funny...I still don't get how a witty dialogue between to sharp characters can be even compare to a dumb who arrived with an Avatar make up and made two or three stupid jokes about James Camerone...yeah, funny. After seeing them together I dream of a Robert cameo in 30Rock, as Tina Fey new lover, of course! <3 Well, no one could ever distract me from Jack/Liz ship, but, waiting for canon, I want some fun! XD
About fashion: this year I saw one of the wrost red carpets ever. Why did those divas choose such terrible dresses, that don't help their bodies to look awesome and makes them rydicolous? I wont upload a photo of Zoe Saldana's dress, too unpleasent to be linked here. The best one? I liked a lot Kristen Stewart black dress, Kate Winslet classic grey choice (she was so '40ish, so classy) and Lenny Krevitz's daughter choice, with white silk and red velvet. Probabily the best one was this one, but this year the competition was not so fierce.
About prizes: well, in major categories the Academy choice were wildly predictable. If you're one of the group thinking Avatar could really win the direction/best movie prizes, two choices: you're naive or you don't know how Oscar works. Katherine Bigelow's work was not her best work at all, but it was the right movie in the right time. Avatar is a giant production, but the Variety "for your consideration" pages, James Cameron interviews, the sequel confirmation, all of these things, and the fact that Avatar is an innovative movie only as tecnique, not as movie itself, decided its defeat. Maybe in future, but not this year, as for The Lord of the Rings saga. In my humble opinion, between 10 nominations, either Avatar, Up or The Hurt Locker deserved the most wanted oscar, but the problem is this year there isn't a movie good enough to make me say "I *want* this title to win". But Up in the Air and Inglorious Besterds should win something more, because they were far better than the one I wrote about above.
I'm so so so sorry for Il Divo defeat...damn you JJ, the only time in my entire life I want you not to win something. Don't panic, thanks to Mario Fiore's Oscar italian journalist can describe us Los Angeles night as one "with a little of italianity in it". When I heard Mario Fiore speaking few words of italian, I instantly thought "I'll see this moment in all tv news tomorrow" and it was exactly like this (I saw all the tv news in morning and evening editions, zapping from one to other for seeing all the breaking news about oscar). Well, the fact they claim Michael Giacchino oscar has "an italian one" was stranger, thinking he is born in New Jersey. Well, his parents' families were italians, but he was technically italian until he asked for citizenship last year. How a good choice! XD I'm so happy for him, he wrote all my favourite tv show ost from ten years ago, he deserved some love *singing Fringe theme*.
I was so surprised by the winner of Best Foreign movie! I was so sure The white ribbon could win, or at least he should be defeated by The prophet. it's such a long time since France last Oscar (I'm not considering the marvelous Marion Cotillard, of course). But that movie...I don't know a thing about, but someone said me it was strange even the nomination, because of it wasn't special at all. I was happy for The Cove (yeah, Japanese, we know all your shit about wales and dolphins), but I was really disappointed by the lacking victory of Quentin Tarantino as screenplayers. The Hurt Locker won so much prizes, but it really did not deserve this one.
Ok, I hope to see the last interesting movies from Oscar as soon as possible. Not in a few months, considering next months will be released in Italy Departures, the japanese movie that won best foreign movie category last year. Annoying. >-<