Academy Awards 2008

[GoGo Yubari]

And we're opening up with a salute to... CGI, apparently?

[Ananas]

I've had some laughs this week about how this is going to be the worst Academy Awards ever.

Seriously.

This is going to be the worst Academy Awards ever.

[ROC]

Well, any show where Jon Stewart is taking the piss out of how many montages that are actually being done shows how ridiculously boring the whole MONTAGE show is.

Well, unless there's a Team America-esque montage song during one of them...

[Pepsi]

Why's this year going to be the worst Academy Awards ever?

[GoGo Yubari]

Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill's incessant arguing over who's Hallie Berry was fantastic. But all in all this has been a fairly boring night.

[ROC]

Why's this year going to be the worst Academy Awards ever?

[GoGo Yubari]

... okay, that Wii Sports battle was marvelous.

[Pepsi]

Why's this year going to be the worst Academy Awards ever?

Because it's the super MONTAGE show.

And Stewart's a passable host...but I pine for another Chris Rock hosted Oscars.

[EddieRuckus]

I've only seen the award for Best Film Editing, which was just recently. Who else happened to win and what awards were won?

[ROC]

Why's this year going to be the worst Academy Awards ever?

Because it's the super MONTAGE show.

And Stewart's a passable host...but I pine for another Chris Rock hosted Oscars.

[Pepsi]

Best Achievement in Editing

Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Christopher Rouse

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner: Marion Cotillard for Môme, La (2007)

Best Achievement in Sound

Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Scott Millan, David Parker, Kirk Francis

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Winner: No Country for Old Men (2007) - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner: Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007)

Best Short Film, Animated

Winner: Peter & the Wolf (2006) - Suzie Templeton, Hugh Welchman

Best Short Film, Live Action

Winner: Mozart des pickpockets, Le (2006) - Philippe Pollet-Villard

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men (2007)

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Winner: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

Winner: The Golden Compass (2007) - Michael L. Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood

Best Achievement in Makeup

Winner: Môme, La (2007) - Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Winner: Ratatouille (2007) - Brad Bird

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Winner: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Alexandra Byrne

EDIT: I think Stewart is awesome and is doing great. I don't care if not many people have seen the movies, I've seen them all and that's all I need. And yeah the montages get annoying but I'm a sucker for a good montage.

Edited February 25, 2008 by Snow White and the 7Ups

[Ananas]

Well for starters I heard about the rushed writing and lack of traditional video gags earlier in the week. I'd also heard about the use of some of the contingency material Stewart wrote pre-strike (I'm assuming that's the spoof monologues that even in context weren't funny). The C-list group of presenters has been out there for a while. And Jon Stewart bombed first time around. He's been a bit more comfortable this time around, but that said I've found two jokes funny in 2 hours, and they were both in the monologue. Too bad that a year with such a worthy bunch of nominees ought to be met with such a snoozer of a show.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I thought the film Marion Cotillard won for was called La Vie En Rose?

[Ananas]

I know it was "La Mome" in France and "La Vie En Rose" in North America. What it was called everywhere else is beyond me.

[Pepsi]

Yay Juno!

[Olive the other Jiberdeer]

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner: Marion Cotillard for Môme, La (2007)

[Pepsi]

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner: Marion Cotillard for Môme, La (2007)

I stopped watching when I saw this. Seriously. Cate was robbed. ROBBED!

[Olive the other Jiberdeer]

Perhaps, but Cate Blanchette could take a dump on screen for an hour and it would be Oscar worthy. She's amazing at anything she does. She was robbed not once but twice tonight (I really think she should've gotten supporting actress too. But yeah, anywho).

[Ananas]

I don't seek to explain the minds of Academy Award voters (nor do I have any opinion on the winner, considering I've only seen Julie Christie and Ellen Page's fantastic work), but it's entirely possible that Cate Blanchett was doubly hurt from her double nomination splitting the vote as well as some perhaps reluctance to give her the award due to her having already played the role in "Elizabeth". Also, I really MUST see La Vie En Rose.

[Clawson]

The real robbery is how Aragorn didn't win. Sure Daniel Day-Lewis may kick ass, but not against Aragorn or Depp.