Did anybody watch the awards this year? I didn’t. I had Oscar fever so bad that it sent me to bed and I passed out before Ellen hit the stage.
I thought I might have something to say about the awards show this year, but I wasn’t really looking forward to watching them. I didn’t see most of the movies being nominated because I’m still catching up on DVDs and everything else on my DVR.
The morning after the awards, I wanted to know who won and so I looked it up on the official Oscars website and found out that way. Maybe that is enough of a comment on media right there. People don’t have to tune in to their televisions anymore to find out what’s going on, or worry that they’ll miss something if they don’t watch it live. Now we have the internet. Now we have DVRs.
It’s all there for you, to look back and check whenever you have the time…bless the technology!
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Adriana Barraza – Babel
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg – The Departed
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Penélope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet – Little Children
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole – Venus
Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness
DIRECTING
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel
Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears – The Queen
Paul Greengrass – United 93
BEST PICTURE
The Departed ($132)
Babel ($34)
Letters from Iwo Jima ($13)
Little Miss Sunshine ($59)
The Queen ($55)
($ millions cumulative gross as of 3/11)