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February 29, 2004

Oscars 2004 IV

Five awards in the first hour. They're going to have to pick up the pace big-time if they hope to wrap this before midnight.

How does it feel to present an award knowing that it's the only time you're ever going to hold one of your own? I don't know why I thought of that while watching Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Probably a coincidence. Then again, who would have believed Tom Hanks becoming the grand old man of Hollywood back when he was in "Bosum Buddies?"

Has an awardee ever attacked another because he took up all the time making his acceptance speech? Just wondering as one of the Two Soldiers winners for Best Live Short goes on and on while his partner looks like he's ready to strangle him. Our first less than impressive acceptance speech.

Amanda finally gets one wrong with Best Animated Short, but I fail to gain ground, so I'm five out of seven to her six out of seven. And we're back to classy acceptance speeches with the "Harvie Krumpet" pair properly sharing the microphone.

As a side note for my fellow bloggers, if you want a nice jolt to the hit counter, just put the words 'Oscar ballot' in one of your posts, and you'll get more hits than you know what to do with. Of course, few of them will stay to actually read what you've written...

Two pleasant enough songs with "You Will Be My Ain True Love" and "Scarlet Tide" from "Cold Mountain." Alison Krause has a lovely voice, but I'm still looking forward to hearing Annie Lennox.

Speak of the devil. She is really impressive, although her voice sounds more than a little off this evening. You have to hand it to Peter Jackson; this song was absolutely the perfect close for the trilogy. Here's hoping Annie gets to walk home with a gold statue tonight.