[merylsilverburg]

Well, I'm pretty much late to this thread only because I saw the Oscars last night (taped it, didn't have time to see it until yesterday) and I must say that this is one of the worst Oscars in history. My God, you wouldn't believe how thankful I was that I taped it, so I was able to skip through hearing LOTR's name announced at every few minutes. The entire crew should've just stood up there. I'm not saying that LOTR didn't deserve a few of the awards (like visual effects, costume, etc.), but to win every award was just bizarre.
As for Sophia Coppola winning for Best Screenplay (or was it Director?), I wanted to punch the TV...oh sure, give her an Oscar just because she's Francis Ford's daughter, yeah that's fair. "Lost in Translation" isn't the best film in the entire damn world! The film is completely filled with ignorance, lack of emotion, and is just plain boring. Now she has two awards she doesn't deserve: the Oscar and the Independent Film Award.
"Finding Nemo" winning the Best Animated category pissed the hell outta me, even though it was obvious, so I won't go further into that.

These are the only things that I can remember.

Originally posted by Panuru

When a movie starts a trend, like it happened for Titanic too, or for Chicago last year, you can be sure that the movie will win even when it doesn't fully deserve it.

Ah, well I really liked "Chicago" because to me, that was one of the freshest films to hit the screen in a while. Maybe it's not exactly the most original film, but it was a pretty nice film.