Oscars and Razzies

The Oscars were last night, and Slumdog Millionaire won all but two of the awards it was up for including Best Picture. Now that it's won so many awards, the Academy members - to cop a phrase from Albert Brooks - are going to have to see it. :-D

Two very exotic European actresses won the best lead and supporting actress awards - Britain's Kate Winslet for The Reader, which I haven't seen, and Spain's Penelope Cruz for Vicki Cristina Barcelona, which I have. I think Cruz deserved her Oscar. :-)

I looked at the Razzies ,and I was disappointed. Sure, Mike Myers probably deserved to be dishonored for The Love Guru, and Paris Hilton was undoubtedly a shoo-in, but these were false, easy targets; no one expects much from Mike Myers when he's not playing Wayne Campbell or Austin Powers, and Paris Hilton isn't a real actress like Razzie laureate Halle Berry. Much more interesting was M. Night Shyamalan's "win" for his horror movie The Happening, because he's a hotshot hot-ticket director who's taken seriously.

They named Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as worst sequel. Hey, I liked that movie! :-O