Morning After

I hope everyone watched the Oscars last night. I got to watch the rehearsal before the show because the company I work for was working on the behind the scenes stuff on the internet so we could see everything that was happening in the theatre and the rehearsal was probably better than the show itself. James Franco and Anne Hatahway both came out on stage and they both looked like they just rolled out of bed. Franco's hair was totally messy and his sweater was 2 times too small and he just looked high. Hathaway was very giddy, but she just looked exhausted. Then, the stand ins who were doing the fake acceptance speeches and what not were just awesome. They really got into it. One guy even got up there and was fake crying. Just hilarious. I saw the reharsal for the Grammy's a few years ago, but those people were taking it seriously. This was just the best.

Anyway, even though I haven't seen The King's Speech yet, I had a feeling it would walk away with the most awards. I kept hearing amazing things about the movie. I'm super happy that Natalie Portman won for Black Swan. She totally deserved that! Here are the rest of the winners:

BEST PICTURE

The King’s Speech

BEST ACTOR

Colin Firth, The King’s Speech

BEST ACTRESS

Natalie Portman, Black Swan

BEST DIRECTOR

Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech

BEST SONG

“We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman

BEST EDITING

The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

God of Love, Luke Matheny

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood

BEST MAKEUP

The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST SOUND EDITING

Inception, Richard King

BEST SOUND MIXING

Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, The Fighter

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

In a Better World (Denmark)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Melissa Leo, The Fighter

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Inception, Wally Pfister

BEST ART DIRECTION

Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

Nonfail Blog Friday

With Ash Wednesday and Lent and all those fun things in our midst, I thought I would touch upon something religious that made me smile. Sounds like an oxymoron. This is old news, but I wanted to talk about it a little bit anyway just because it’s good news. Anne Hathaway and her family have changed their faith from Catholic to Episcopalian because her brother recently came out and is no longer accepted by the Catholic Church. How cool is that? How many families would do that? Not many.

I have my issues here and there with Anne Hathaway and the way she plays certain roles and her lack of talent in certain areas, but after reading this, I may begin to like her now. I kind of wish more people would follow the Hathaway family in this decision. Any religion against anyone should be left. I’m going to get a little preachy here, but Catholics tend to be a tad hypocritical in the sense that the bible teaches that all people are created in God’s image, yet they don’t accept the majority of those people into their community. Isn’t that like not accepting God? I knew I was Jewish for a reason. Happy non-religious Friday y’all.