I finally managed to watch the Oscars, you can find the winners here. Unlike last year, I am pretty happy with this year’s winners. There are some disappointments, but I cannot have it all. Here are some random thoughts about the Oscar Night.

• During The Departed presentation the speaker said that Infernal Affairs is a Japanese movie!! It’s from Hong Kong, you morons!! At least Scorsese said Asian movie.
• I was happy they gave the honorary award to Ennio Morricone, even though honorary award means “we screwed up, sorry you never won before”. It was nice listening to his Italian, but I didn’t know Clint Eastwood knew Italian that well. Makes sense, he’s made so many movies with Sergio Leone.
• Dreamgirls had 3 songs nominated, but it didn’t win! Nothing against the winner, but how ironic that the musical of the year doesn’t get the best song award.
• The actors awards weren’t too surprising, Alan Arkin being the only small surprise.
• I am happy that Martin Scorsese finally got his Oscar, and it is for a good movie. I also loved watching the 3 friends (Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas) little fun sketch about Lucas not having won for Best Director, and then giving the award to their other good friend Scorsese. The best moment of the night.
• Which brings me to the disappointments. The original screenplay went to Little Miss Sunshine, but I really wanted Pan’s Labyrinth to get it. But the biggest upset was the foreign language film award. Nothing against Germany, I haven’t even watched the other films. But how can a movie with 6 nominations not get this award? They even won some of the other Oscars, how can this be more popular than the others? Bah!?
• About Ellen. I am not too familiar with her, but I recognize her humor. I thought she was funny, and she brought a more relaxed atmosphere to this all too important show. Not the best ever, but she had some funny jokes.
• As usual the only montage worth seeing was the tribute to people who passed away. All other montages are just useless.
• I loved the people doing shadow images of the best picture nominees. So inventive!

Overall a good year for movies, and good Oscar winners. Now I can start concentrating on this year’s movies.