Little Miss Sunshine owns :) filmed close to my house. I just want that to win :)

The nominations, now that I can finally view them, seem fairly even. None of them stand out as anything undeserved, except for Meryll Streep's nomination for "The Devil Wears Prada". Don't get me wrong, it was probably a funny enough film, but Meryll Streep could read from the Betty Crocker Cookbook with cameras rolling and earn an Oscar nomination because the Academy has a long history of overrating her.

What disappoints me is that there was no nominations for "Thank You for Smoking". That was a well done, interesting and highly original film. Even if you ignore the acting, at least the Screenplay was well deserving of a nod.

Little Miss Sunshine, it was alright, not as funny as people said. A cutesy film. If anyone from that movie should've received a nomination, it should've been the kid who played Duane, the silent Nihilist. Most interesting character in the whole movie.

Dammit. Now Scorscese will get an Oscar for a movie that just doesn't deserve it.
Why isn't Nicholson there? Because he hasn't done jackshit this year that would've been Oscar-worthy. If anyone now mentions his perfomance on The Departed I will laugh in his face. I'm still not sure wether that was Jack Nicholson or Jack Black doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson.
And yes, it was Nicholson who ruined this movie, which is pretty good otherwise.
So my bets are on Scorcese for best director, best picture Babel, best actor diCaprio, best actress Mirren.

Now that the results are in, it's time to revive the tread for a spot of discussion.

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I was thrilled that Scorsese won his Oscar; much better than getting a tacky honorary award. His speech, which referred to all the people who wanted him to win, was nice too. "The Departed" winning best picture was a mild upset as far as I was concerned, but whatever.

I was horrified that Babel won Best Score, but I knew it was coming. Now Santaolalla has more Oscars than Bernstein, Goldsmith, and Horner :( The Best Song was a real shocker too--Dreamgirls unseated by An Inconvenient Truth! Good to see Ennio get an award, though, even if Eastwood had to translate for him.

I was really surprised at how limp Ellen's schtick was; she wasn't a terribly great host. Will Farrell and Jack Black's comedy song, Jerry Seinfeld's introduction, and the bit with Lucas, Spielberg, and Coppola were the comdy highlights of the night, for me.

I'm pretty surprised Eddie Murphy didn't get the nod for best supporting actor and that Pan's Labyrinth lost the best foreign language film. Rumor had it that Pan's Labyrinth was actually going to be nominated for best motion picture.

I only saw The Departed for the first time last week, but it instantly became one of my favorite movies; it is certainly one of the best I've ever seen. Totally agree with Best Picture/Director.

Nothing else really interesting. Ellen was a good host, like she has been for the Emmys.

I haven't paid attention to the academy awards for years. My GF was just watching it and i caught a glimpse briefly and from what i saw, it hasn't improved in quality at all.

The thing i don't get is why they've lately been riding the cock of any movies that deal with 1950/60's Motown/R&B acts. Ray was good, although not oscar worthy and the same can be applied to Dreamgirls which bored the shit out of me. Jennifer Hudson IMO didn't deserve to win tonight.

There are lobby groups. Also, Ray Charles died the year that film came out, so it won just because of that.

Jennifer Hudson, IMO, did a phenomenal job. But so did the the two actresses nominated from Babel. I'm glad I'm not the person that had to pick for that category because it was stacked. Any of them could have taken it. If I had to decide though, I think I might have nominated the Japanese girl. It must be friggin' tough to play a deaf-mute like she did.

You mean a deaf-mute, not a blind-mute. :P

After watching the Oscars I really want to see Pan's Labyrinth now, it seemed really interesting from what I saw at the Oscars and it did get many nods. I want to see The Departed also. I didn't see the Oscar's in full because Michigan had a stupid snow storm and cable was out on the entire campus. But I really did enjoy the Dreamgirls performance (and thought it was hilarious how they performed three songs, yet someone else won) And I loved that Jennifer Hudson won. Take that American Idol!

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Oh, I loved how diverse the nominees were too!

Ya... ugh. I was half-asleep when I wrote that message.

Pretty surprised Pan's lost Best Foreign and Best Score. Also, can the Best Supporting Actress next year be a woman who actually had to act for her role?

Oh come on, Pan's Labyrinth was not that great. I mean, I liked it very much, and yeah, it had its moments, but it's by far not an Oscar-worthy movie.

And I bet you haven't even watched The Lives of Others yet, am I right or am I right ;)

They were both great movies. No need to put down Pan's for it.

Jennifer Hudson did . . .

Let me put it this way: Had she not had any singing to do in that role, do you really think anyone would have recognized her acting ability?

I haven't seen The Departed yet, but now my interest has increased since this is the movie that got Scorsese his Oscar. I also attribute my surprise that the Academy was not up Eastwood's ass this year to not having seen The Departed. Letters from Iwo Jima certainly looks a lot more appealing than Flags of Our Fathers was, which I didn't care for.

Too bad Pan's Labyrinth didn't get the Best Foreign Film Oscar, then again it is the only foreign film I have seen this year. I still think Children of Men was Best Picture material, worthy of a nod at the least.

I haven't seen the Oscars, but I will state two thinga I heard.

Props to Scroses for thanking Infernal Affairs, and boo to whoever decided IA was from Japan and not Hong Kong.

Racial ignorance, not to mention lazyness, 3 seconds on google would have corrected them.

Singing is quite different from musical acting. And considering how quite a few actors and actresses have won for musical roles before, it's not exactly unprecedented.

Yup. It takes a certain amount of skill to make emotion come across like she did throughout the film.

I was pulling for Pan's to win best foreign.

I actually rented The Departed last night and watched it instead of the oscars. Great movie. I was glad to later find out it won.

I still think every single other nominee in the category (save little Miss Breslin! =D) out-acted her. And since the award was for Best Supporting Actress, shouldn't that be what counts?

Well, I don't really know, the only movie I saw out of that list was Little Miss Sunshine. I'm just saying that saying that acting in a musical isn't really acting is false. It is acting, just different from dramatic.

That's what I was thinking as well. I mean, they HAD to give it to him, anything else would have been an outrage. Maybe that kind of explains why he didn't seem to be THAT happy, too