The Winners are...

At the last minute, Ron decided that we needed to see Zero Dark Thirty. He had heard that the torture scenes weren't as bad as some people said. He thought we should see it before the Oscars - I didn't really want to see it but I had no strong argument against it, either. As it turns out, it was a fairly intense film. I was very uncomfortable with the torture scenes, but I guess they weren't as bad as I had imagined they would be. Jessica Chastain did an amazing job portraying "Maya" - the CIA agent whose  only job at the agency was to follow leads to find Osama Bin Laden. I assume that she was portraying a real CIA agent but that her name had been changed. I saw a lot of similarities between her character and the one that Claire Danes plays in the "Homeland" series. All in all, it was a real eye opener and a good movie.

So, t's all over for another year. The 85th Academy Awards show is over and the winners have been named. I did pretty well on my selections...Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor for Lincoln and gave a witty acceptance speech; Jennifer Lewis won Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook; Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserable. I missed Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, but I wasn't upset about the winners.

What's more upsetting is how much anticipation there is for the show and for the awards to be named, but then the production is often disappointing in some way. This year, I thought the set was beautiful but the host was rather a dud. I'm not a big fan of Seth McFarlane's kind of humor and his opening the show with a song about which actresses breasts he had seen was tasteless for the Oscars. I will have to say that he has a decent singing voice, but I hope they bring Billy Crystal back to the show next year.

What I did love about the show this year was the musical numbers from the broadway shows Chicago, Dreamgirls and Les Miserables. Jennifer Hudson was FABULOUS! That girl can sing! I was sorry that the Les Mis number didn't come off a little better, but I still loved it - what can I say - I am a fan. I thought Barbra Streisand's tribute to Marvin Hamlisch was touching, but it made me sad to realize that she is losing her amazing voice.

My 2nd favorite gown

My favorite gown - wasn't Octavia elegant?!

All that's left for me to tell you I thought was the best dressed and worst dressed of the ladies for the big event. Not that my opinion matters to anyone - it's just fun to say...

Melissa is a funny lady but I was not a fan of the color or fit of this dress. 

Pretty Naomi, but the dress is just YUCK.

That's it for the Oscars for this year. It was another very long show. I don't know how other people felt about the whole thing, but I'm interested to hear what others thought about the host and show in general, I'm ready for a new batch of movies - bring 'em on, Hollywood!