Golden Moments:
Finally! The Right People Won.
The reason this year was so enjoyable was because for once, the right people won the major categories, with one exception. I’ll get to that in a bit. In the first award of the night, Christoph Waltz took home the supporting actor trophy and gave a speech that was very [...]
So the Academy Awards Nominations were announced today, and as per usual, comedies were ignored.
The biggest, although not surprising, slight is the absence of the comedies The Hangover, (500) Days of Summer, and It’s Complicated. This is why I have such trouble with the Oscars. As almost any actor will testify, comedy is much harder [...]
Oh James Cameron, how I love thee. You gave me Aliens, my all-time favorite sci-fi flick. You also proved with this film that sequels can be even better than the original. Then you gave us T-2, and cemented that you were the king of the sequel (no Oscar-acceptance-speech-for-Titanic pun intended). What followed was the fun [...]