I made 20 of 23 awards, changing my last minute pick for Best Supporting Actress to snag an upset and was thankfully wrong in thinking Lupita Nyong'o was going to lose for her brilliant performance in 12 Years a Slave. American Hustle, having had ten chances to take home an Oscar, walked away with nothing.
My most sincere condolences to all of you who have fallen under the curse of actually caring that Jennifer Lawrence fell on the red carpet. Some people are clumsy and have balance issues. She also may have been stoned, so go back to stealing your neighbor's wifi.
Gravity, despite winning seven Oscars, lost the top prize to 12 Years a Slave. For all of you who have ever seen this page, you knew that there was no way of anything else happening. However, viewers were still rewarded by seeing the historical win of Gravity's director Alfonso Cuarón, the first Latin American Best Director winner.
Her also reeled in Best Original Screenplay, backed by an awesome speech by Spike Jonze. Best speech had to go to a heartfelt and sincere (and well prepared) speech by Jared Leto after winning Best Supporting Actor for Dallas Buyers Club, accepting his award for all those affected by AIDS. Luckily there were not a lot of disappointing speeches, most were very fast, unlike the show.
Dear Oscars,
Please refrain from any stupid "tributes" like that pathetic animated films, of which you select five animated films to represent the cartoons "we love." We have also suffered from too many years of worthless trailers for the Best Picture nominees. I do apologize, however, after having two months to watch all the films and seeing endless tributes of the same films in other ceremonies. Stick with Jim Carrey doing Bruce Dern in front of Bruce Dern, and Ellen making twitter shut down.
Oh, and I will leave you lovely people with this:
Winners are posted in the Oscars section. Thank you all so much for participating in my favorite night of the year!
