And the Oscar goes to...

[Lord Beautiful]

I can't help but be glad the Heath Ledger got that Oscar. To be perfectly honest, I didn't care much that he was dead and have his performance hyped up because it was his swan song, but he did remarkably well, especially considering my initial thoughts of him playing the Joker (when that casting choice was first made public) were not very positive.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I loved Slumdog Millionair, but I think Benjimin Button deservered more. That movie was fantastic.

Obviously Heath got his reward, but he certainly deserved it.

While Wall-E wasn't a bad choice, is there no love for Kung Fu Panda? I'm serious, thats some the best fight scenes I've seen in ANY movie, let alone an animated one. Wall-E wasn't bad but it certainly wasn't Pixars best.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

A happy candy-cane land/fairy-tale is nice & don't get me wrong, Slumdog wasn't by any means a bad film. It's that making an underdog story which is realistic is a true acheivement (Shawshank), one worthy of best picture. There is very little skill in making an unrealistic feel-good movie/fairy tale, you can shape it exactly how you want, because your going to end up at the happy ending reguardless of plausability.

What does that even mean? You can do that with any sort of fiction...not just fiction that ends happily. I've seen just as many dark drama's where nobody ever laughs and everything is dark and tragic that seem just as contrived.

 

[zoozilla]

What did people think about having previous Oscar winners present the nominations for the major acting categories?

I thought that it kind of caused the show to drag, but there were some entertaining introductions (I liked De Niro's humorous praise of Sean Penn). I do think it's good that the nominations are also being applauded, and not just the winners.

And maybe it was just me (I didn't expect so many people to dislike Slumdog), but whenever that movie won an award I felt really happy for them, which is kind of rare at an awards show like this. And Danny Boyle's "Tigger-style" acceptance was great.

Also have to give props to my birthplace Japan for winning 2 (what's that? 2 Oscars for Japan? Hell yes!) Academy Awards (Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Short). Maybe they didn't give the greatest speeches in the world (I wanted to shout, "Just speak freakin' Japanese already!"), but it was all good anyway.

 

[Jenkins]

im glad. heath ledger was simply AMAZING as the joker. he was the soul of that movie, not christian bale. what a way to turn off the lights of his life with a bang.

Sean Penn is also a great actor. all together the awards were solid in my Opinion. and yes, lol as Benjamin Button for winning 3/13 awards.

 

[peduncle]

why would they give an award to a dead guy?

Because he was awesome in that role.

good? fine. Awesome? no