2010 Academy Awards

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are two of the funniest people on TV, but they stunk it up tonight. The opening of the Academy Awards was not very funny, or edgy, unless ignoring George Clooney is edgy. We got off to a good start with the awards as Christoph Waltz won best supporting actor for his role in Inglorious Basterds. This was one of the toughest categories this year and I think the best man won in a great line up. The next award for best animated film was a no brainer I guess as Up has won every award so far this year, and was even nominated for best film, but I still held out hope for Coraline. Oh well, it's still pretty cool to be animated (and nominated).

The John Hughes tribute was a interesting, what a mix of characters they had on stage. Molly Ringwald and Allie Sheedie have not aged well, but Matthew Broderick still looks like Feris Bueller. I guess I can say I grew up on Hughes films, as I knew everyone they showed.

The winner for best short film, Logorama looks like a very cool must see, but how can you ever see it? Where do these movies play?

Finally Jeff Bridges got the Academy Award he deserved for The Big Lebowski, even though Crazy Heart is an amazing film too. His singing was great and T Bone Burnett, was deserving of his Oscar for the original score. There is a great interview with Burnett on Fresh Air about making this film, well worth listening to. I can't say that Sandra Bullock was the best actress this year, compared to Gabourey Sidibe from Push, but there you go. If you stick around long enough, good things happen. I also am not sure The Hurt Locker is the best film this year, but it is kind of cool to see a movie that made $12 million beat out a movie that made $2 billion. In true Hollywood style, Katherine Bigalow became the first woman to win best director, a story that was too good for the Academy to pass up.

Overall a very disappointing show. I think the winners are all hugely deserving, but that was a lot of schlock we had to wade through to get to it.