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Oscar Night: Clean Sweep (list of winners)
Sunday, 29 February 2004 07:35 pmI usually skip the Oscars and read the summary in the morning. Tonight, I'm in Film Critic mode! I'm going to watch the entire thing! I'm even taping it for later analysis, taping it right over the final episode of Quantum Leap I recorded earlier today but didn't have a chance to watch, and over last week's Scrubs with that dishy Brendan Fraser. How's that for dedication?
My predictions? Ugh. I'm not very good at this. Master and Commander, Monster, and Lost in Translation will take a few awards from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and the Pirates movie. Master and Commander might take Best Costumes. If not for Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, I'd allow myself a little giddy hope Johnny Depp could actually win Best Actor—but I'm glad enough that he was nominated. It seems some of the Academy actually remembered what "the movies" are all about in their quintessential form. I'm way too biased about ROTK to think clearly about its odds of winning the big awards tonight.
I've had no prophetic dreams about the awards. Unless you count dreaming about fighting rapier all night, but that might have had something to do with all the SCA fencing I watched yesterday, and is probably not about Pirates and ROTK sweeping up all the gold at all.
But, you never know....
Blow-by-blow coverage:
After the song-and-dance and hoary joke sequence, we leap right into Best Supporting Actor: nominees: Alec Baldwin in The Cooler; Benicio DelToro in 21 Grams; Djimon Hounsou (which spelling I've probably mauled) in In America; Tim Robbins, the one bright light in Mystic River; Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai; and not Sean Astin in ROTK (grrf). And the winner is: Tim Robbins. The Outside Food critic is pleased.
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My predictions? Ugh. I'm not very good at this. Master and Commander, Monster, and Lost in Translation will take a few awards from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and the Pirates movie. Master and Commander might take Best Costumes. If not for Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, I'd allow myself a little giddy hope Johnny Depp could actually win Best Actor—but I'm glad enough that he was nominated. It seems some of the Academy actually remembered what "the movies" are all about in their quintessential form. I'm way too biased about ROTK to think clearly about its odds of winning the big awards tonight.
I've had no prophetic dreams about the awards. Unless you count dreaming about fighting rapier all night, but that might have had something to do with all the SCA fencing I watched yesterday, and is probably not about Pirates and ROTK sweeping up all the gold at all.
But, you never know....
Blow-by-blow coverage:
After the song-and-dance and hoary joke sequence, we leap right into Best Supporting Actor: nominees: Alec Baldwin in The Cooler; Benicio DelToro in 21 Grams; Djimon Hounsou (which spelling I've probably mauled) in In America; Tim Robbins, the one bright light in Mystic River; Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai; and not Sean Astin in ROTK (grrf). And the winner is: Tim Robbins. The Outside Food critic is pleased.
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