Sunday, February 24, 2008

by Ari

You can check out the full list of winners at imdb.

No Country For Old Men and the Coen brothers for Best Picture and Director. I'll say it again, this is the best choice the Academy has made in many many many years. I loved seeing Martin Scorsese win the Oscar last year, but I think he won for one of his lesser movies. No Country For Old Men is one of the best films by Joel and Ethan Coen, two of the most original and entertaining cinematic visionaries of the last 24 years. Paul Thomas Anderson made a masterpiece with There Will Be Blood and would've been deserving as well. So did Andrew Dominik with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Ford, but that wasn't nominated (ugh!). At least something great won this year. A genuine classic.

Daniel Day-Lewis was all class as usual. So was Bardem. Congrats to Marion Cotillard and Tilda Swinton. Even Diablo Cody gave a nice little speech.

But the great moment of the entire evening goes to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. I almost needed a tissue.....that never happens to me with these damn Oscar shows. Maybe I'm just in a mood tonight...

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