Did anyone make it through last night’s Oscar telecast? Pretty sure we knocked out sometime after the Best Sound Engineering In A Foreign Musical award, but Bruce Vilanch and his team of comedy writers may be partly to blame, too. (Suggestion for next year? Cut human resources, obvs.) If you didn’t watch, this musical number was, believe it or not, a standout moment. Despite the predictability of Jack Black singing at an awards show, Will Ferrel’s lines to Ryan Gosling and Marky Mark make it worthwhile. Another nice moment came when Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg presented the long-overdue Best Director award to Martin Scorsese’s eyebrows.
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Ellen was the perfect fit at the oscars, mostly because she’s completely neutral. No one could handle jon stewart making fun of everyone, or chris rock making fun of jude law.
The myspace/clint thing was still inspired.
And Ferrell’s oscar appearances are topping his movies lately.
And since this is a music site, did James Taylor forget the words? the ones he sang made little sense as coherent sentances.
I was surprised at how funny Ellen DeGeneres managed to be. But in contrast to the disaster that was taking shape around her, it would be hard not to be entertaining. The MySpace thing with Clint and Spielberg was great. The crack about America not voting for Jennifer Hudson/voting for Al Gore was funny. She handled the fact that the show went WAY past the expected end time great. Especially when they came back from commercial and she was vacuuming the aisles. So yeah, as much as it pains me to say it, Ellen DeGeneres was great. As for the rest of the show…
I thought they normally scatter the big awards throughout the show. Last night, best supporting actor was inexplicably near the beginning and then followed by nothing but technical awards for what seemed like seven hours. It was painful.
As much as I love me some JT, when he’s playing a Randy Newman song from CARS, I see that as a bathroom break. So, I can’t answer your question unfortunately. Departed is so awesome, though. Everyone go download that shit. I mean, buy the DVD.
big ups to my girl sofia coppola for getting an oscar for costumes in marie antionette…..
well, not her…but, her costume person…
i still got her autographed guitar!
hugs to marty for finally winning that shit!
i still prefer the goldenglobes over this snorefest…..
ellen did the best she could…..
how did pan’s labyrynth not win best foreign film?
Yeah, Pan’s Labyrinth not getting best foreign language film was a mystery to me too. It seemed like it won everything else it was up for, why not that?
Ellen was funny, but the show otherwise was (I agree) quite oddly directed and more tedious than usual. I must correct Adam – the supporting actor awards weren’t at the beginning, and if they were near the beginning, it would be highly explicable, because this is the only year (if not ever, than at least in a long time) that they haven’t *opened* the show with the Supporting Actor awards.
Gil Cates (and Ellen both) made a point this year to say “don’t make boring speeches.” Then almost everyone brought out a piece of paper. There were even more boring speeches this year than probably ever.
Still, I wasn’t disappointed with the awards. Except for Best Original Score.
Ellen was great. Actually, surprisingly enough, I think I laughed more for her than Jon Stewart or Chris Rock, who I would say are far better comedians usually.
I didn’t really find Ellen very funny. She was too neutral and medium-witty to me. No big laughs at all from her. At least the last couple of guys could get a big laugh out of me.
Ellen looked like a clown in that first outfit. Much better in the white suit, though.
Sorry, but Ellen sucked. If they want boring comedy, they achieved their goal. The funniest part of the night was watching JB and Will Ferrell completely f up their song, only to be saved by Chest Rockwell.
I don’t know whether it should be a guilty pleasure or not, but I still love watching the likes of Will Ferrell and Jack Black goof around on these live performances. Good fun. The Mark Wahlberg and Helen Mirren bits were enjoyable.
“I must correct Adam – the supporting actor awards weren’t at the beginning, and if they were near the beginning, it would be highly explicable, because this is the only year (if not ever, than at least in a long time) that they haven’t *opened* the show with the Supporting Actor awards.”
Yeah, that was my point. Supporting actor/actress awards always open the show. This year, only supporting ACTOR was presented early in the show. Supporting actress was presented much, much later. You did *watch* the show, right?
how about EVERYONE S-ing Al Gore’s D all night long
Does anyone know who the artist was for the song on the JCPenney commercial during the Oscars telecast? My money was on Cat P., but we could not come to a consensus with people in the room.