Well the Oscars were neither canceled nor postponed thanks to the writer’s strike settling. We were sort of wondering if they had enough time to write jokes for Jon Stewart, and if maybe he might not have been better off just winging it. If he started one more joke off with saying something nice and then… like ‘how great is that Julie Christie, (wait for audience applause) speaking of great…’ I do generally like Stewart and enjoyed him previously so I’ll cut him some slack and admit some chuckles but overall he lacked spark and wit.
And the presenters overall were fine. Owen Wilson rushing through his lines, but nice to see him out again. But what was up with some of the choices on who presents, I get the whole former winners, but Mily Cyrus? I just don’t know. (Though she was maybe the hottest of Barbara Walter’s guests, but I would have axed her and stuck with Juno’s Ellen Paige, we agreed not two youngin’s – and a friend questioned doesn’t Barbara normally only have three guests – but this is all mostly irrelevant.)
Overall there were no real surprises, except maybe that I won my Oscar pool. Oh and maybe that they let that nice girl who co-won the song for ‘Once’ come back on stage after she didn’t get a chance to thank folks. No one in my group picked the documentary but all the hype really was for ‘No End in Sight,’ though it’s still sitting on top of my TV unwatched in its Netflix sleeve.
And most importantly there were very few seriously stunning dresses and few stinkers. I admittedly tend to nitpick so there were a number of dresses that I generally liked but had an issue or two with. I thought Katherine Heigle’s was near perfection. The simple red dress was just the right color and cut on her, and it had just enough detail to make it interesting. And the rest of her look complimented it, and her, wonderfully.
In the stinker category, I hate to say it because I love the quirkiness, but I just couldn’t get into Tilda Swinton’s one sleeve muumuu, and her clean skin and stark hair just didn’t do it for this look. And I hate to pick on a spouse but the woman with Daniel Day Lewis could learn that less is more. The red bow sleeves and the giant center jewels scared me every time they panned to him.
And if you missed the rest of the awards you can catch the winners at http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/nominees/
