I found myself laughing at a lot of Stewart’s jokes that none of the audience (or any of the folks I was watching with) seemed to laugh at.
Ah well. I enjoyed him.
I was very underwhelmed by all three ‘best original song’ nominees. 3 6 Mafia definitely had the best of the three, but they were all pretty bland, IMO.
Because there would be a lot fewer women nominated. The ratio of male leading roles to female leading roles is about 3/1.
Selma Hayek? She was wearing something tight & teal-colored.
I doubt if anyone else thought this waas funny but during the gay cowboys clips, they had one cowboy showing his pistol to another. Carved into the wooden handle he had engraved his name. I was expecting something more romanic like The Waco Kid or Dusty or Greased Lightning or something but, instead, it just said “Steve”. Bwhaaa, that’s when I personally wet myself.
My GF wondered if she might be suffereing from Parkinson’s.
I agree. Stewart was meh to me. I prefered Rock last year, but that won’t play with the Oscar faithful. Someone like Leno is perfect for what they are going for. A ‘safe’ choice who plays with the mainstream (who is more “According to Jim” than “Arrested Development”, for example).
Yeah, that was her name. Stunning gown. Jennifer Lopez’s green number was a show-stopper, too.
Stewart was OK, but seemed subdued, as though he knew it wouldn’t fly if he went all out.
The awards were interesting. It’s the first time since 1956 that the top six awards – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress – all went to different films.
From the Academy voting rules:
Most of the time when the “top six” awards are referred to, the two screenplay awards make up two of them. Thus, It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Silence of the Lambs are called the only movies to win the top six Oscars.
All in all, a screenplay determines much more of the quality of the resulting film than most supporting performances.
I didn’t watch all that much because I’m just not an award show watcher.
But from reading around various sites I’m getting the idea that Stewart did just fine. For example, Those big stars just don’t get Jon Stewart.
Well, actually since the same movie can’t win both screenplay awards, make that the only movies to win the “top five” awards.
That article seems wierd. While I do think that Letterman and Rock did pretty decent (Letterman always gets a bad rep for his hosting job, but Hell, he’s David Letterman, immature antics are his bag!), the statement that the Scientology joke fell flat was incorrect, IIRC, it got the biggest laughs of the night.
Dang! Apparently I missed the Scientology jokes as well as the gay cowboy montage…I picked the wrong time to go pick up my daughter. Can anyone recap the Scientology stuff?
On another previously mentioned topic - wasn’t the woman who made “The Triumph of the Will” quite the Nazi sympathizer? Doesn’t surprise me that people didn’t want to clap for her.
I totally don’t get the “Jon Stewart bombed” thing. I thought he was hysterically funny – much funnier than the prepackaged shtick by the presenters (with the possible exception of Ben Stiller’s, which cracked me up).
sorry twickster - got my Oscar threads mixed up - in the other thread folks were discussing how long people clapped for dead celebrities in the obituary montage. And somehow Leni Riefenstahl (misspelled, I’m sure) was mentioned.
Someone said she was a Nazi; someone else said, no, she just made movies about Nazis.
Anyway, that’s what I was referring to.
PS - I like montages, but the music chosen for the message movie montage was bizarre.
As they came back from commercial, Stewart was saying something to the extent of how Hollywood should embrace Scientology. Playing up like he was a member, and trying to convert the audience during the break.
Here’s the exact quote:
“And that is why I think Scientology is right, not just for this city, but for the country.”
As I said in the “Crash” thread, but should have just posted in here:
Ben Stiller almost never makes me laugh, but he did on Sunday. “Envelope… open yourself!” Steve Carrell and Will Ferrell were also funny (and I don’t like Ferrell either).
I don’t know how Stewart could have bombed. The audience reaction was hard to read, but is that what people go by instead of whether the jokes are funny?