Oscars 2006
God knows why I get sucked into this each year, it’s certainly not for all the stupid talking about the finer points of the new Charlize Theron’s dress (Although it was quite amusing…she had a huge bow on her shoulder which was quite blatantly hiding the face of her ugly conjoined twin), but I’m beginning to think it may just be an excuse to stay up till 5am, eating snacks and missing the next day’s lectures. However in all fairness I do have a passion for films and like to see who gets awarded what. However, there were some points that I thought were fundamentally wrong with this years’ ceremony:
- Star Wars not nominated for best visual effects – what the hell?! I absolutely loved Narnia, the animation of Aslan and company were top notch, King Kong, well maybe, I’ve not seen it, but War of the Worlds I didn’t find anything particularly impressive. There must be a decent enough reason for Episode 3 not being in this category that I’m missing.
- “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” winning best original song. That’s quite ridiculous, the song, if you’ve heard it, I hope you’ll agree it is utter, utter crap.
- Episode 3 or Narnia Soundtrack not being nominated for best original score. Why oh why weren’t they in there? They’re both great, even though John Williams held two other nominations within this category, he still didn’t win it!
- Tim Burton nominated for best animated feature, but has never won an Oscar. That’s insane, he’s got loads of fantastic movies out there. I did however enjoy the fact that Nick Park won best animated film of the year for Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit. He deserves it. But then again I also found out that that’s his 4th Oscar, that’s great, but I really do think Tim Burton deserves one now.
- Jonathon Ross not presenting the UK commentary. This really spoiled it for me last year and this year he wasn’t there again. His humorous rantings about films made the Oscars for me and who knows why they got some woman that I’ve never heard of and probably didn’t even know what a film was to do it instead.
There were a few decent speeches, the best in my opinion, from the president of the Academy, which reminded me why I love films and more importantly why the bloody hell I was watching this. Well it’s all over now and even after I’ve moaned about it, I’ll still probably spend next year bleary eyed at 5am saying “Never again”.