...and congrats to Kathryn Bigelow for winning Best Director and the whole "Hurt Locker" team on winning Best Picture. First time a female director has ever been allowed to handle such a subject, and the first time a female director has won an Academy Award for it, as well.
I feel like they got pretty much everything right. They nailed it, man.
Jeff Bridges won best actor, Mo'Nique won best supporting actress, Cristoph Waltz won best supporting actor, it was dead on.
The only thing missing was some love for Moon/District 9. Still, much worse choices could have been made.
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Except for Sandra Bullock. Seriously, WTF?
mfitzmorris: Except for Sandra Bullock. Seriously, WTF?
Yeah, I have to agree. I was wondering how Gabourey Sidibe didn't win that.
District 9 wasn't as great as many would of thought. I certainly was disapointed. Nevertheless, indeed the Academy, in general, got it well. However, looking at all the categories and the film year that past, I think there was also a lack of choice in some categories. IE: There wasn't that many good animated film last year compared to the previous years. Hence why, imo, "Up" won. It's was ok, but not grand as we have seen in the past.
Up is Pixar's best film, by far.
Rising ticket prices and a stubborn girlfriend kept me from seeing a lot of the movies that were nominated this year. I saw Up, Avatar, and District 9, but I missed out on The Hurt Locker, Precious, The Blind Side, and Up in the Air; all of which I really wanted to see. And Inglorious Basterds, which I didn't really want to see, but probably should have.
I thought the show was well done. I like Alec Baldwin, and many of the Best Actor/Actress introduction speeches were great.
I don't really see the point of raising the number of Best Picture nominees to 10 if it is going to be so obviously split into five contenders and five dark-horse non-contenders. I thought District 9 and Up were fantastic, but there's no way they would ever win Best Picture.