Negril Notes

Oscar Weekend - And the Winner is?

February 24, 2007

It annoys me that they don’t say, “… and the Winner is …” Does it really make the fellow nominees feel any less like looooooosers? I think not.

I bought Little Miss Sunshine this weekend, and it was just amazing. I laughed, I cried. I felt good because, in contrast, my family is normal, though we were a Volkswagen Bus bound family on many a road trip back in the 70’s. The characters were at once unique and archetypical, watching the film I wondered who I identified with the most. Was I the angry teen? The eccentric uncle? The over-zealous dad? Hmmm, at least I wasn’t the crazy dope smoking grandfather, not yet anyway.

I also picked up The Departed, it was excellent, but it was no Goodfellas, hell, it wasn’t even My Cousin Vinny. I think Marty went to the gangster well one too many times; at least it was the Irish mob this time. It just makes me laugh to portray Patriots fans as tough guys, talk about suspension of disbelief. My nephew Thomas could kick Leo’s ass.

OK here are my picks:

Best Picture - Little Miss Sunshine (it won’t win but it should)

Best Actor - Forrest Whittaker should win, but Will Smith will win.

Best Actress - The Queen chick should win I guess, but I didn’t see any of those movies. Penelope Cruz could win on general hotness.

Supporting Actor - Eddie Murphy - as long as it stops him from making those annoying fat suit movies.

Supporting Actress - That girl from American Idol.

Best Director - Paul Greengrass for United 93 but that suck-up Scorsese will win.

Best Screen Writing - Michael Arndt and Sacha Cohen

Animated Film - Cars - Aidan helped me with this one.

Best Documentary - Better known as the Americans Suck Category - Big Al is gonna win, and he will probably be so obviously trying to look un-tree-like, it will be fun to watch.

Best Foreign Film - Who cares you can’t figure out what the hell they’re talking about anyway.

Best Song - I think its unfair that Dreamgirls has three of the five nominations.

Vinny