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Posted: Feb 25, 2008 in Movies, TV and Celebrities
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Marketa Irglova and Glen Hanspard accepting their Oscars for Best Song for the movie "Once."
So what was your favorite/least favorite moments from last night? I thought there were some great speeches, especially from Bardem and I loved Tilda Swinton's as well).
My favorite moment was Jon Stewart bringing back out Marketa Irglova to do her speech after she was cut off. I do think "Once" was probably the only true indie movie among the major nominees and it was great to see it win for song, because it was just a wonderful movie and that was a terrific song.
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Well, I don't know about my favorite moment. I actually hate watching the Oscars, because they always seem to get it wrong. I've loathed them ever since they gave Gwyneth Paltrow an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love" instead of Cate Blanchett's for her first turn as "Elizabeth" (stunning performance, even more stunning result).
I would say this: last night's Oscars did it again. That is, they rewarded great actors for OK performances, out of respect for the greatness of their earlier work. Javier Bardem was a wonderful villain and all, but come on, he has been much, much better in other roles. Same goes for Tilda Swinton. She's great and all, but somehow, every year, doesn't it feel like the Oscars are a way of doffing the hat to people for stuff that didn't get recognized at the time?
It's like "The Departed" last year. Loved the movie, but wasn't it just Hollywood giving Scorsese his prize, after not giving him the award years earlier for "Goodfellas"? How else do you explain the "luck" of having Lucas and Spielberg, his old contemporaries, present him with the statue? That was a completely engineered moment.
With that in mind, I'm more interested to hear what other people think about Oscar upsets. Who, do you think, has received an Oscar that shouldn't have?
Thoughts? Who else?
best part of the oscars each year is when it ends.
Konrad, i'm right there with you on a number of your issues and references (especially Gwyneth and Russell) but that being said, Bardem was incredible and The Departed was nearly flawless. I get the whole, "we overlooked them before, let's reward them now" theory but both Javier and Marty deserved those Oscars. and does anyone really even care about best supporting actress? that's the lamest award out there. there are so few good roles for women that there's barely enough to fill the best actress nominee list, let alone supporting. Tilda Swinton, old woman from American Gangster, Blanchett in a movie that probably 3 people on this site saw... whatever.
Joe, I thought Jon Stewart was awesome, as usual. I thought this was the worst year of films i'd ever seen and expected a pretty lame show. That's pretty much what it was.
Well, I don't know about my favorite moment. I actually hate watching the Oscars, because ...
I'll give you those with a slight disagreement on Scorsese's work on "The Departed." It may not have been his personal best work, but it was undoubtedly the best film of the year. I do agree with you on rigging up Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola onstage to present the award to him.
I will agree that the Oscars are largely a popularity contest, and that undeserving films and actors are awarded unjustly (I'm looking at you, "Crash").
I think most would agree with you (including myself) that "Shakespeare in Love" was a mistake all around. It was okay, but hardly deserving of the scads of accolades it received.