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Just watched most of the Oscars. All the way through I expected Sandra Bulloch to win best Actress for ‘Gravity’ because of the many cut-aways and the film won so many other awards and I’m sure she was good. (I can’t comment on films I haven’t seen so will stick to those I have.)
The camera didn’t cut-away to Cate Blanchette once while I watched, so I thought she had decided not to go – what with all the controversy over ‘Blue Jasmin”s director. (No, I just can’t bring myself to say his name…) I presumed she wasn’t there – like Judi Dench and was disappointed.
So glad ‘Frozen’ won best Animated and best song. So many layers to that film, most unfortunately will be lost on it’s young audience. (My 4 year old granddaughter loved it – so did I! )
And a huge shout-out to Catherine Martin who became the 1st Aussie to win 4 Oscars for her amazing set design and costumes in ‘The Great Gatsby’ this year and a few years ago for ‘Moulin Rouge!’
You can usually tell who the academy favorites are by how many times they ‘show’ in cut-away, the ‘star’ in the audience – case in point Best Picture: ’12 years a slave’ (which I didn’t agree with). Sure it was a good movie but ‘Captain Phillips’ was better all ’round and should have at the very least won Adapted Screenplay, so was ‘Philomena’ (both mentioned in my top 1o), – Hell! even ‘The Railway Man’ was better.
But I have to say the fashions were beautiful – as expected (expect for Ellen).
