I'M WOLVERIIIIIIINNNNNNE!!

Okay, so last night was the Oscars, which I stupidly started watching at 11PM GMT, a full 2 hours before the ceremony started. This meant I got a lot of incredibly effeminate men talking about dresses and tuxedo's. Delightful...

Onto the ceremony itself. If it weren't for Hugh Jackman this would've been shit. He was incredible and the opening number was some of the funniest stuff I've seen. I may have woken my housemates up with laughter, for which I apologise. I'd very much like to see Hugh hosting again, preferrably with a bit more screentime.

Another person who put in a good show was Will Smith, who presented the technical awards. He was calm, relaxed and recovered from his verbal stumble well. Definitely someone I'd like to see host it in the future. I didn't know he was an Academy member either.

As for the awards themselves, some I agreed with, some I didn't, others I didn't really care.
I'm very glad Danny Boyle got the nod for Best Director. Not only is Slumdog Millionaire very well directed, Boyle's one of, if not the, most consistent directors in cinema today.

Can't say I'm as chuffed about Slumdog winning Best Film. I enjoyed it and everything, but it's not a patch on Benjamin Button. Also, the two actor awards ticked me off majorly. I've not seen Milk, although I'd very much like to, but Sean Penn just pisses me off. He looks like such a little shit-eating wanker I very much hoped he wouldn't get anything. Furthermore, I really dislike it when people make their acceptence speech into a political debate, even if I happen to agree with it.
Heath Ledger winning Best Supporting Actor also annoyed me. I liked his performace, I kind of liked The Dark Knight, but there's no way in hell his performance deserved an Oscar when compared to other performances even in The Dark Knight it wasn't as good.

Another award that pissed me off was WALL-E winning Best Animated Film. Pixar is one of my least favourite movie studios, but I still watched WALL-E prepared to be converted. Sadly to say that wasn't the case. WALL-E is, at best, rank average.

Original Score is usually an award I care most about, but that usually pisses me off no-end. I'm still pissed off that There Will Be Blood wasn't allowed to be nominated last year for some ridiculous technicality. I sincerely hoped Benjamin Button would get the award this year, but instead it went to Slumdog. Not devastated at that, I do enjoy the Slumdog OST, but still, a disappointment. I was glad that Slumdog won Best Original Song, if nothing else other than Peter Gabriel gets on my tits for some reason.

Overall, a very predictable awards ceremony, but that doesn't bother me, so long as films that deserve the awards get them which more often than not happened. This year's looking very promising for films so hopefully next years ceremony will be even better.