Oscars

First, sorry about the lack of posts recently. It was reading break after all and I literally read the entire week (4 midterms this week). Second, I watched the Academy Awards last night. Some of my thoughts:

• Why is it so long? Over 3 hours again. Why not split the awards show into 2 parts. Part 1 can be the technical awards i.e. editing, sound mixing etc and part 2 can be the part people actually watch (best actor, best director, best film etc.). To shorten the length for the viewer, just don't air the first part (maybe the networks could stream it online for hard core people). The minor awards would still have the same recognition in front of their peers and these people are probably just made more nervous by knowing there are millions of people watching them anyways.
• Everyone who was expected to win, won. The moment of the night was when Heath Ledger won for the Dark Knight. Everyone stood up and gave his family a standing ovation as they went up to accept the award. It was amazing that every person they put the camera on was tearing up. I wonder if the camera guys gave them some heads up so that they could prepare to be on camera (they are actors after all. I bet some of them used pepper or some other old actor trick)
• Ben Stiller' parody of Joaquin Phoenix was pretty funny (seriously though, what was that guy thinking? From actor to rapper? He should leave the white man pretending to be black thing to the serious actors)
• What happened to the funny bit at the beginning? That is what I always liked to watch. This year, they tried to be more serious with a musical theme. I don't like musicals. Most men don't like musicals. In fact, I'm starting to get the impression that this show is skewed to women. The host was voted the sexiest man alive, there were musical numbers throughout, almost every commercial break had a soap or shampoo commercial, during the red carpet there were a lot of gay men talking about fashion. Just saying.
  
• I thought the Oscars were only about movies. Turns out I'm wrong because a lot of non-movie people showed up. It's fine when the singers are part of performances in the show but people like Miley Cyrus or even TVactors shouldn't be there because they are not part of the industry.