Shakespeare in Love won that year because there were two legitimate Best Picture nominees - Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful. The two legitimate films split the vote, and the No. 3 movie took the prize. Sucks, but that's what happens in voting sometimes.

Still pretty unusual since that was one of the random years they let a foreign language film in for best picture consideration.

Saving private ryan looses 20 points having Sam Malone in the middle of the ****ing movie

Buldyke getting an oscar for Blind Side is pretty embarrassing....

I missed the Oscars again??

damn.

A character study. The movie is set in a war, sure, but it makes no commentary on war and is apolitical. It uses the setting to excellent dramatic effect but the film is about its characters and nothing more.

For everyone decrying the lack of nominations for Moon: I liked Moon an awful lot and I think that it should have gotten nominations consideration. BUT Sony apparently didn't think the same. Sony didn't send any Moon screeners out for awards consideration whatsoever.

Eek. She looks too much like Odo from "DS9".

http://broadwayworld.com/photoops/pi...gyllenhaal.jpg

http://www.nf.au.dk/~startrek/sfaab/pictures/odo-s1.jpg

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Well, last night went pretty much as expected by most people.

Bridges and Bullock. Did they really deserve their awards? Maybe. Maybe not. You can't help but feel they both got them more as "lifetime achievement awards". Especially in Bullock's case. If Helen Mirrin wasn't so critically acclaimend, and if Meryl Streep wasn't so critically acclaimed, and if the other two weren't "who dat?"s, there's no way Bullock wins. (Side note: that girl from "Precious", holy crap, man.... that's one big woman. Mo'Nique sat behind her probably 'cause she said, "This is the only person in the room I look skinny when I sit behind." LMAO)

Bigelow. Another one where you can debate it. Her work before this was pretty uninspiring. Did she win because she's a woman? Did she win because no one wanted to see Cameron up there again? :shrug:

"The Hurt Locker". Again, people seem split on this film. Some love it, a few think it whacks it, and even a lot that enjoyed it think it's not worthy of an Oscar. Did "Avatar" get a backlash because it made so much money? Or maybe it's a technological thing. "Tron" was blacklisted for an effects award 'cause the Academy said they "cheated" by using computer graphics, LOL. "Beauty and the Beast" might have been the best picture in its year but they weren't going to give an Oscar for Best Picture to a cartoon at that point in time. Maybe, 10 years from now, an "Avatar"-style picture might win. But IMO right now it's too new and unusual and unknown for people to vote for it. (Hell, half probably didn't vote for it out of some irrational fear that "computer-animated films will take all of our acting jobs away", which totally isn't true if you know anything about how they made the film.) But, as has been mentioned, "Avatar" already won when it was "Dances With Wolves", and while "Avatar" was a very enjoyable film, I don't think it was "robbed" the way "Saving Private Ryan" was. Cameron's got his "Titanic" Oscars and his mattress full of Benjamins to console him.

The dual-hosting thing was okay. Funny in spots, flat in spots. I still don't think anyone's done it better than Billy Crystal, but that's JMO.

It kind of amazes me that we live in a world where Sandra Bullock has won an Oscar but Sigourney Weaver hasn't. :spock:

I didn't like Hurt Locker. watched it last night.

Ing Basterds was my favorite movie so far.....one of the best I've seen in a while actually.

Avatar was cool, but it was pretty much Pocahontas in Sci-Fi

Bullock deserved an oscar for that tight little ass she still has at her age.

There you have it folks.
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This happens frequently. They both deserved it. Even if Bullock resume to this point hasnt been that great.

Shes been solid for a looong time. Even if most of her movies have been "geek/cult" hits up till now.

IMO, the best films nominated last night were Up and Basterds.