The 82nd Annual Academy Awards - discussion thread

[OdoWanKenobi]

Would love to see In The Loop win, but I think Up In The Air is a given.

EDIT: Well, I'm wrong. Both the screenplay awards have been upsets, I think.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Holy shit.

Well, I guess there had to be one surprise.

Reitman will have to wait another year or two.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I would like District 9 to win adapted screenplay ... but Precious wins.

 

[Trekker4747]

Still, the first Star Trek to ever win an Oscar!

Indeed. This may be it's only one this go-around, it doesn't stand a chance in VFX.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Fletcher clearly wasn't expecting to win.

 

[indranee]

Odd, in some ways; the makeup in Trek XI was great, but there weren't any radically different races or anything from past films.

methinks this was somewhat a consolation prize. I mean, Trek may just have been in the ten best films list if Avatar hadn't come along. just IMO though. I might be wrong.

I'm glad it won... something. I'm happy. I think the industry on the whole loved the movie.

 

[Trekker4747]

That was a nice, humble, speech. Very real.

 

[CaptainCanada]

And Steve Martin with some good lines.

Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall - odd couple of the night.

 

[Kira's Mom]

I loved A Serious Man.

Pretty good movie; I thought it was a marvelous piece of craft, if a bit too inscrutable for me to really love it.

It was amazing. But you really have to know a little about the era- a lot of it is based on the Coen brothers' lives growing up in Minnesota.

Wow, Precious won Adapted Screenplay?

 

[Data Holmes]

Nice to see Corman get some respect.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Bacall seems to be OK at 86, she and Betty White should do some project together.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Ah, yes well I guess last year's Best Supporting Actor couldn't present tonight.

 

[CaptainCanada]

So they got Robin Williams to stand in for Heath Ledger. Interesting choice.

 

[shivkala]

Wow, where'd they dig up Molly Ringwald?

She's actually been a main character on a silly teen drama ABC Family show for the past couple of years. She's actually not that good in it, but that may just be the horrible writing.

My wife and I were just wondering that (DVRs are a wonderful thing). I kept waiting for her to say, "John Hughes took a chance on a robot like me. He taught me to love..."

 

[Trekker4747]

Mmmm... Penelope Cruz. I've lost my train of thought.

 

[Amaris]

Mmmm... Penelope Cruz. I've lost my train of thought.

Oh yeah. Me too!

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I'd like to see Maggie win for Crazy Heart. But I think Monique will win this one

 

[CaptainCanada]

Mo'Nique, to the surprise of no one.

Not that she doesn't deserve it. She was fucking terrifying in that movie.

Also, mmm, Penelope Cruz in her underwear.

Nice nod to Hattie McDaniel.

 

[Daneel]

Mo'Nique wins -- another non-surprise. Are all the awards going to be this easy to call, I wonder?

But hey, if she deserves it, then more power to her (I can't say if she does or not -- I haven't seen Precious yet).

 

[Kira's Mom]

And Mo'Nique wins supporting actress for Precious.