11:16: Time for my favorite award, Best Original Screenplay.” Charlie Kaufman wins for the year’s best film, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Which is great, because I’ll probably see that 50 more times in my lifetime, while I’ll almost certainly never see “Million Dollar Baby” again.
Look at the last fifteen years of Original Screenplay winners, and the last fifteen years of Best Pictures- which list has more good movies?
Kaufman looks a lot like Seth Green, and is closer to his age. Green probably should’ve played him in “Adaptation” instead of Nicolas Cage.
11:23: The presentations have been cut down to about five second each, as Charlize Theron does Best Actor. I expect some Fox News pundit to bust out the DiCaprio “don’t you talk down to me- you’re a movie star, nothing more” clip next time some actor says something about Bush.
Foxx wins. And I realize I haven’t gotten one wrong yet on my picks. I always assumed Jim Carrey would be the first “In Living Color” alum to win an Oscar, though I knew it wouldn’t be a Wayans brother.
11:32: Julia Roberts presents Best Director, and will likely jump into the lap of whoever wins. And it’s Clint- damn, sorry Marty. It’s a shame, because Eastwood did a much better job acting in that than directing it.
11:36: Hoffman and Streisand give out the Best Picture award, in character from “Fockers.” And the winner is… “Million Dollar Baby.” Ugh. We got hope early on when “Aviator” won all the technical awards, but then MDB wasn’t really a “technical awards” kind of movie. Only four Oscars, but they were for Picture, Director, Actress, and Supporting Actor.
Overall, not a particularly memorable year- though, quickly, name two things that happened at last year’s. Rock was decent, but this was far, far, FAR from his best work, and the super-rushed tone of the final hour pretty much ruined it.
Meanwhile, IFC started a showing of “The Usual Suspects” right as the show was ending. So much better than everything that was honored tonight…
Article comments
1 - DrPat
Look at the last fifteen years of Original Screenplay winners, and the last fifteen years of Best Pictures- which list has more good movies?
Wow, this is so true. I have 80% of the screenplay winners in my own movie library, and half that number from the Best Picture category...
2 - Mary Wills
When the show ran a salute to Johnny Carson's years as host, the comparison was so painful, it made you think the academy would have been better off just letting a computer-generated Carson host again.
3 - irfan
please send me the oscar winner movie of the year 2005
4 - Rodney Welch
Salma Hayek translates a song. You call that extolling Che?
5 - Eric Olsen
Mary, painfully true!
Thanks Steve, great to see you back!
6 - danny bee
This Oscars was possibly the end of the Oscars as we know it. Rock bombed. The songs stunk. The stage smelled.
Maybe next year, Oprah Winfrey will host, to bring back some dignity to the show.
Worst was the winner of the best docu film BORN INTO BROTHELS for showing up on stage and backstage press conference wearing a hooker dress, complete with no bra, boobs hanging out, and she is trying to get good PR image for her movie about the kids of hookers in India and she dresses like this?
What was she thinking?
7 - Shawn
Rock should stick to awards shows like
MTV thats where his teenage potty humor
might be more welcome maybe someone will
go so low as to let him host the tonys
(lol) Im an African American I think we
need someone with honor and respect in
other to show our caliber and intelect
I think even Samuel L Jackson would have
had a little restraint
thanks Shawn AKA Retropunk