Well, Seth Mac Farlane had his turn at hosting the Academy Awards® ceremony last night. The reviews were, to put it generously, mixed.
Personal opinion? I didn’t much have a problem with him. He did better than Letterman (remember “Uma… Oprah. Oprah… Uma.”?) did.
Critics are going to find fault with everybody… even if Bob Hope or Johnny Carson came back from the dead to host the awards, there would be people criticizing.
So be it.
The surprises of the night (for me, at least) were the wins for Anna Karenina and Life of Pi – and Argo winning Best Picture.
Jennifer Lawrence? Christoph Waltz? Anne Hathaway? Okay… I can deal with that. Searching for Sugar Man? A happy time… since Rodriguez, the subject, actually lives here in the D. Skyfall as Best Song? Sure.
Argo winning Best Adapted Screenplay? Tarantino winning Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained? I can deal.
Ben Affleck getting shut out of the Best Director nominations? Spielberg losing to Ang Lee? Hey, these things happen.
The Best Sound Editing tie between Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall was a surprise… there usually aren’t ties in Oscar® voting.
It just goes to show you that award shows are funny (not in the sense of humorous, but in the sense of odd)… they don’t always listen to the same “conventional wisdom” that gets put out in the hype for these shows.
Discuss among yourselves.
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