Almost all of last night's major races went as you would have expected. Save for a minor upset in the Best Supporting Actor race (Little Miss Sunshine's Alan Arkin over the slightly more favored Eddie Murphy), it was all pretty much identical to earlier award shows this season. The main difference between this broadcast and other recent award shows was the excruciating length of time it took for host Ellen DeGeneres to get through the proceedings. Stuffed with nearly half a dozen useless montages, dancers reenacting inanimate objects representative of major nominees (seriously), and even a choir performance of random sound effects (seriously!), this had to have been one of the longest, dullest Oscars of all time. The highlight of badness, of course, was watching yet another lengthy montage (this time a tribute to legendary composer Ennio Morricone) followed by Celine Dion emerging for no logical reason to perform the theme from Once Upon A Time In America with original lyrics that featured the key phrase "I knew I loved you." Has Celine Dion seen Once Upon A Time In America? Any of it? At all? I mean, there is a romance involved, but nothing in the grisly Sergio Leone flick really calls for a power ballad.
Here's a list of some major winners:
Best Picture: The Departed
Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others
Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
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