It's weird. Usually there's at least one Oscar handed out every year where you just have to groan and moan aloud and wonder just how the hell that person managed to walk away with a little golden guy. But nothing like that happened this year. I was wrong in almost every guess I made about who was going to win, which wasn't always my choice for whom I thought should win, but there wasn't a single win last night that made me say, "You know, that's just not right."
I mean, sure, everyone knows that those pathetic losers Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth should never have won for their documentary short subject "Freeheld." James Longley so totally deserved it for "Sari's Mother"-- But no, that joke doesn't even work for this year's Oscars, because everyone at the podium was so gracious and so sincerely delighted to have won. And even though no one indulged in the cliché about how it's such an honor just to be in the company of their fellow nominees, that really would have been true this year. Everything that was nominated -- with the exception of Norbit, as Jon Stewart so hilariously pointed out, but that was only in a technical category, so that's okay -- was darn good.
The most disappointing Oscars for me, maybe, are the ones that don't exist, the films that didn't even get nominated. Nothing for 300, not evn visual effects? Man, that's harsh. James McAvoy not nominated for Atonement? Oh, the cruelty.
Okay, I'm not as madly in love with Juno as everyone else seems to be, but it's nowhere near a bad film, or one not worth nominating. And Marion Cotillard may now have earned the distinction of winning the Best Actress award in the worst film ever nominated in that category -- she's lovely in the role, even if the rest of the movie around her is a mess. But I can't really say I'm actually disappointed. How adorably surprised was she, anyway? That was sweet, and we'd have missed it if she hadn't won.
Maybe I'm the most disappointed that this year's Oscars were so elegant, and the winners all so deserving, that there's nothing to complain about. There weren't even any ugly gowns. It kinda sucked the fun right outta the evening...
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