The Oscars 2013

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The Oscars are tonight and I am super excited!
Unfortunately, it looks like most of the stuff I want to win... won't. Jennifer Lawrence, Argo, Anne Hathaway, and Robert DeNiro do not deserve to win, in my opinion. I think that Lincoln should absolutely clean up, but I realize that not everyone shares my opinion about stuff. They are wrong. :)
Now that I have an awesome attached keyboard for my iPad, I will likely be live blogging during the show, which I will be watching from Oklahoma because I'm visiting my sister.
Huzzah for Oscar season!!! Hope there are some fireworks, some surprises, and I hope Seth McFarlane isn't horrible. Here's hoping!
Okay, so it didn't work. Nobody was streaming the show last night because the Academy of Arts and Sciences decided that nobody could watch it online. Whatever. So I read IMDB's live updates to see who won, and overall I am disappointed.
Not only did John Williams get the shaft yet again, but the acting awards were too predictable. The one happy surprise was that Christoph Waltz won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and that is amazing. I was worried Django Unchained wouldn't be recognized, but not only did Waltz win, but the film won best screenplay, and that is both accurate and amazing. Tarentino did a great job, and even if he didn't win for best director or best picture, at least originality was acknowledged.

The most unfortunate decision was the Best Picture category, where my hopes were crushed as Argo won the category. I thought that Lincoln, Django, The Impossible, Silver Linings Playbook were all better than that film, but whatever. Like a few years ago, Avatar got shafted for The Hurt Locker, because political crap about the war was going to win no matter what. Same is really true for this year - Zero Dark Thirty was never going to win because we can't be excited about murdering and waterboarding, even though it's true - so it had to be the film that reminded us why Iran is terrible and why we have are so different from those countries. And that's fine. I know that Lincoln and Django were the best films of the year, and that is okay by me.

After all, Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor and I am a very happy girl - because I am a misanthropic  snob, I assumed he was American - when I found out he is definitely not, it makes it that much more impressive because he was completely believable and amazing. Anne Hathaway won, of course, but really there wasn't anyone else in that category worth anything better, so that's okay. I was holding out ridiculous hope for Best Visual Effects because I'm pretty sure there were real goblins in The Hobbit, but The Life of Pi really cleaned up, so whatever.

Overall, I'm happy because of the actor categories and I at least understand the other categories. Hooray for the end of the award season!

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