The results of the Academy Awards.
My thoughts: a big fat fucking “whatever.” I’m not kidding about how much Crash has ruined this process for me. And the fact that the night’s only real surprise was in Visual Effects, it’s not particularly easy to get all hot and bothered about anything.
Glad for Robert Elswit, too bad about Roger Deakins.
My new criterion for picking the Animated Short: my least favorite will win. Not that I didn’t like “Peter & the Wolf”, but I liked the other four significantly more, and it’s the third year in a row that’s been the case.
I did a satisfactory 6/8 on the big categories, and an embarassing 11/24 overall – not as bad as my mortifying 2002, where I went 4/24, but I do think it’s the second-worst I’ve done since I started predicting all of the categories.
Anyway, I think that it’s late enough that my Sunday Classic “They Shoot Pictures” Review will wait for Monday. Sneak preview: in the spirit of the Oscars, it’s a parody of the excesses of LA in which all of the women were cast largely based on their physical appearance.