Oscar Night

[Freypower]

Oscar trivia:

I believe that Marion Cotillard's Best Actress is the first for an actress in a foreign language film since Sophia Loren in Two Women. How Oscar loves biopics. Will she now disappear, never to be heard of again?

And the Coen brothers, who it appears were long overdue, are the first duo to win Best Director. I think it was also a fairly rare event these days for Best Film and Best Director to go the same way.

Of course the coverage down here was 'why didn't Cate win'? From what I heard, Elizabeth The Golden Age was a very poor sequel and she was lucky to be nominated. I hope she will one day win Best Actress for a role worthy of her talents. I saw her live in Hedda Gabler several years ago. I wish the Academy could have seen that performance. As for the Supporting nomination she was perhaps unlucky but she already has one of those.

And also I see that Glen Hansard of the Frames won Best Song. I saw them support Bob Dylan! It isn't often you can say you've seen an Oscar winner (in my case Dylan himself, Elton John, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush & now Glen Hansard).

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[DonFan]

FP, you are indeed lucky to have seen so many Oscar winners.

[Freypower]

More trivia:

It was the first time in 44 years that no American won an acting award. I correctly guessed the 1964 Best Actor (Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady - one of THE great performances, IMO) and Best Actress (Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins) but I had to look up the others. Best Supporting Actor was Peter Ustinov for Topkapi and Supporting Actrees was Lila Kedrova for Zorba The Greek.

[glenneaglesfan]

That takes me back to the golden age of film, FP! I loved Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, and Topkapi was another memorable film from my youth.

I haven't seen any of the films featured in this year's Oscars, but like you DF, I do enjoy going to the cinema on rare occasions. There is something about the big screen and the atmosphere that you don't get watching at home. I think the last film I saw was Casino Royale - I don't get out much!

[Freypower]

The last time I went to the cinema I took my daughter to see Happy Feet. She enjoyed it, which was good. I didn't like it at all. I have DVDs of a couple of recent Oscar winners, Miliion Dollar Baby and The Queen, and I still haven't watched them.

I know my knowledge of Oscar trivia is good, but when I read that Marion Cotillard was the first French actress to win in 48 years or whatever I knew who the previous winner was - Simone Signoret in Room At The Top. Now that is sad.