What a Night...

Yes it was the 78th Annual Academy Awards on March 5, 2006. It was a night filled with references of some blah humor to Brokeback Mountain and the movie that should have won more that being Good Night, and Good Luck. First let me start off with saying that George Clooney won his first Oscar and the first Oscar awarded in the evening. He won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. Nicole Kidman awarded the statue to him, which is a little ironic to do believe. At the Golden Globes in 200 she also gave him an award. She must be some special good luck charm. Okay, so lets start at the beginning. It was a rather interesting opening. In past years we have all laughed so hard that we have often cried at the jokes from Billy Crystal. Though this was not done on this night, the opening was a bit funny. There is a point at the end fo the video opening where Jon Stewart is dreaming (with Halle Berry in bed with him) that he had a dream the Academy asked him to host the award show. Upon going back to sleep he wakes up again, turns over, there is the one and only George Clooney next to him. George was instructing him to start the show and that he wasnt dreaming at that point. It was an interesting opening, but I have seen better. The rest of the evening was filled with the usual funny moments. It seemed as though everyone and their mother was thanking George Clooney for their award. Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson won for Best Documentary Short. Cirrine Marrinan at the end of the speech said that she wanted to thank that Academy for seating her next to George Clooney during the Nominees Luncheon. Very hmmm...
This was also a night for surprises. Crash won Best Picutre. This was quite a shock to me. I was totally thinking it was going to be a Brokeback Mountain night. However, the Academy must not have been as a fan of a gay cowboy movie as the other award shows. So Ang Lee did win Best Director... go figure; and the movie also won an award for Original Score and Adapted Screenplay. I was excited for Philip Seymour Hoffman winning for Capote, but also disappointed that David Strathairm did not win for Good Night, and Good Luck. Anyway, it was a good evening overall. The best, of course, that Clooney won his first Oscar ever for a very important film that needed to be made at this point in our country's history.