After blogging about the non-Golden Globes last month, it's only fitting that I blog about The Academy Awards this month. It's funny, I always spend about a month preparing for the awards, trying to watch every nominated movie, brushing up on trivia, fashion, etc. for the big night. Then I usually go to a party and covet my inward superiority for being the most Oscar-literate while we all cheer on our favorites.

However, this year I was involved in other capers. I did end up at a wild party on Oscar night, and the Oscars were showing, but nobody was watching. The party was filled with musicians, and plebeites, and dancers, and epicureans, theater sorts all of them, and no one had a passing interest in the year's best movies save me. And of course, if it isn't live, it's dead, and me and everyone else could care less, so the charm of the Oscar was lost on me this year.

Anyway, about the actual awards, apparently they were predictable as ever this year. The only mild upset was Mary Cotillard beating Julie Christie for best actress, but other than that it was pretty much all preordained by the blogosphere weeks ahead of time.

John Stuart was amusing, by I continue to hold my opinion that he doesn't come close to Billy Crystal. John had a slew of political jokes and mildly irreverant-but-funny favoritism in his citation of the year's picks. But, the funniest moments were when he mocked the Oscars themselves, like his "approval" of the "This-is-how-we-vote-for-the-Oscars" montage, and his tribute to binoculars and periscopes.

All in all, I'm glad the films that won won (with the exception of Juno, boo!), but I hope next year is a bit more exciting of a ceremony.

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