Wow, the Imitation Game might go 1 for 8.
8 nominations and perhaps only just 1 win.
Another deserving win and gracious speech.
I love you NPH, but shut up. I want to go to bed now.
Keaton needed to play his character with a limp. Or a club foot. Or an extra finger. Or something. 
There seem to be four types of characters who have a huge award-winning advantage:
- The disabled;
- Homosexuals;
- Those who play an oppressed figure from a true historical story
- Those who play the role of a true historical villain
What gay characters earned the award? I honestly forget.
Birdman… I saw it coming. For about the past hour, at least (I chose “Boyhood”).
Wait! I was wrong… I chose “Birdman!” (How could I forget? It’s not like I don’t have my pics in front of me. :smack: )
Best Picture:
Birdman
Well deserved.
Sean Penn presents Best Picture.
Birdman.
Those backgrounds really are wonderful.
I think Tom Hanks did for Philadelphia and didn’t Sean Penn win one for Milk?
It’s a good thing they are because we’ve been looking at them for over 3.5 hours.
Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood.
Jared Leto won last year, and there’s always Brokeback Mountain.
Ugh, Birdman. Wouldn’t even make my top 20 for the year. Boyhood was the far greater achievement (and film).
Thanks, folks, I’d kind of forgotten. I thought of Hanks more in the disabled category for Philadelphia because he was dying in it.
Also Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.
The lesson to take away from this year’s awards: it’s better to make your film in one long take than it is to shoot your movie over 12 years.
They really spread the awards around this year, didn’t they? I would say Birdman and *Grand Budapest Hotel *would be the big winners as far as number of Oscars, but solid big-ticket awards for Theory of Everything, Imitation Game, Julianne Moore and JK Simmons.
My vote for favorite moment goes to Eddie Redmayne. I love how thrilled he was.
Like many did, I’m sure, I mentioned that Keaton would have won if he played his character with a disability. So my wife quips that had he done so, they could’ve renamed the movie “My Left Wing.”
Sorry, I gotta disagree. She may have a huge ass, but that dress made it look elephantine. The draping drew attention to it instead of disguising it.
Too bad Joan Rivers is gone (and where was her In Memoriam moment?) because she would have had a killer comment about that dress.