Now that The Academy Awards are over, I feel like there is nothing left to look forward to until next years Oscars. But when one award season ends, the start of another is not far behind. And like I said, I don't just love the Oscars, I love all awards shows and the award season.
Even though the 2014 Oscars were less than two weeks ago, preparations for the 2015 Oscars have already begun and predications for the awards have already started. Each year we watch the award season and the Oscars and we watch it propel an actors or actresses career forward. The next year we watch the winners and expect great things from them. We also critique this years shows to see how they can improve for next year, which I'm sure we all have very different opinions about. I'm sure with just about everything in life, the producers can't make everyone happy.
Since I wasn't very entertained during this years awards, next year, they better pull out all the stops to impress me, after all, I am their biggest fan!
So now that the oscars are over, what did every one think of the winners?! Well I have one word for you, predictable! I had all the winners pegged down, next year I should put money down on the awards. The award I was most anxious to see given out was Actor in a Leading Role. After seeing Dallas Buyers Club I was 100 per cent convinced that Matthew McConaughey deserved the statue for his performance.
So how did Ellen DeGeneres do? The short answer, she did well. She had a solid opening monologue, funny jokes throughout the night, without going over the line, and while some bits went on a little long for my liking (the pizza bit), the group shot that Ellen posted on Twitter was one of the best parts of the night.
One of my biggest problems with this years Oscars is that it didn't have the big excitement shows in that past have. There was no big opening number and while there was signing throughout the show, it wasn't very exciting, it usually just consisted of the artist standing in one place and singing. I also found that the camera work was very sloppy and the lead ins and outs were very choppy.
What surprised me about this years Academy Awards was that I liked all the fashion! There was nothing that was particularly disastrous, nothing that made me cringe. Lots of pastels, reds, blacks, whites (mostly the men), and shiny!
Now that the 86th Academy Awards are over, they are no doubt already working on next years awards. The Academy has already announced that the 87th Academy Awards will be held February 22, 2015 at the Dolby Theatre. Only 352 days to go!
With The Oscars only two days away my nerdy excitement is becoming harder and harder to hide. Fortunately, I'm not the only one. It seems that every daytime and late night talk show is counting down and talking about The Academy Awards. But what I'm looking forward to after The Oscars is Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Oscars. If this years show is anything like last years show then it should be hilarious and include many A-listers and possibly Oscar winners.
Now, I'm not say that The Oscars aren't entertaining, I don't think there has ever been an opening monologue that I haven't enjoyed. And even most of the presenters throw in a joke here or there before another famous Oscar line is uttered, "the envelope, please."And lets not forget the anticipation of who will win the biggest award of the night, Best Picture. But with just two days to go we won't have to wait much longer!
I think it was Sally Field who said it best, "You like me, you really like me." She said this famous line at the 1985 Academy Awards while accepting her second oscar for her role in Places in the Heart. While it may not have been the best acceptance speech, it was definitely memorable.
I'll admit, I still don't watch all the acceptance speeches at The Oscars, but I do watch the "big" ones. Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress and Best Movie. Probably because I've watched all the movies and now I feel invested in the them, I want to see my prediction come true and see my favourtie actor give their speech. After the first few speeches they all start to sound the same to me, and I don't know anyone they're thanking.
But lets be honest, no one ever remembers the "best" acceptance speeches, we all remember the "worst" ones.
I am starting to realize that a lot of work and man power goes into making the final product so this year I probably should sit down and listen to the speeches because every person that gets thanked in a speech deserves it.
Anyone who has watched The Academy Awards knows just how long of a show it can be. That's just because so many people deserved to be honoured and awarded with an Oscar and they have to get through all of them. As I've grown older I realized how much work it takes to make a movie, produce a movie, direct a movie, add special effects to a movie, and market a movie. While we probably go see a movie because of who is acting in it, it's not just the actors that deserve all the credit.
Over the years there have been some categories that have been cut such as Best Assistant Director and Best Dance Direction but there have also been some that have been added. The last category to be added was Best Animated Feature in 2001 which went to Shrek.
Every year I'm interested to see who gets nominated in each category and make my predictions whether or not they'll win or if they even deserved to be nominated in the first place. However, what I don't find fair about the categories at The Academy Awards are that all of these actors and actresses are lumped together whether their movie is comedy, drama, or sci-fi. My question is, how can the Academy judge everyone together when each part is such different acting?
Fun Fact: Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture in 1991.
As soon as the actresses and actors step onto the red carpet there is a chance for them to get an award. Best and worst dressed has been reported on now for years, with Joan Rivers having the harshest opinions on her E! show Fashion Police.
I have to admit, when I first, diligently, started watching the oscars, I didn't care about the red carpet. I would just tune in for the show, I thought a three hour show was long enough. But now my Oscar night starts at six when Ryan Seacrest is live from the red carpet.
While the fashion changes every year there is usually a trend between all the women's gowns. It could be a trend of sequins, of a train, or of the colour or they could be totally different, this is where they take a chance being labeled a "hit or miss". Must be easy for the men, throw on a suit and they're done.
Now, in my personal opinion there are always more "hits" then there are "misses". Yet no matter how many years pass everyone seems to agree that Julia Roberts' vintage Valentino dress she wore in 2001 was definitely a "hit". It reminded everyone of old Hollywood, bringing the black and white glamour to The Academy Awards.
Just because a dress is infamous it doesn't make it a "hit" and I think that was made clear with Bjork's swan dress designed by Marjan Pejoski also in 2001. To this day I still don't know what she was thinking!
I can't wait to see this years Oscar's fashion trends and what the big names will be wearing.
They come every year, and every year I get just as excited as
the last. I sit on the couch, in my comfy
clothes, making bets with my dad, phone
in hand, texting my friend the play by play of the winners, partly wishing I
could wear those beautiful gowns all the time and partly thinking, I’m so glad
I can breath in my sweats.
It’s hard to believe that The Oscars haven’t always been the
big extravaganza that they are today, but that was the case on May 16, 1929,
the night of the first Academy Awards. That night only 270 people attended the
awards with tickets only costing $5 and the winners were announced three months
earlier. Public interest in the show grew after the first show, and the second
show had a one-hour radio broadcast and the winners were kept a secret until
the award ceremony. In 1953 the first televised ceremony let millions enjoy the
show and it has been that way ever since.
Today, the red carpet for The Oscars usually starts at six
or seven, with the ceremony starting at eight and is supposed to run until 11
p.m. but lets face it, it always runs late because of long speeches. For the
last 10 years The Oscars have been pulling in between 32 to 43 million viewers
each year.
This year, with Ellen DeGeneres hosting and big name
Hollywood actors and actresses attending, and no real front runners to win the
big awards meaning the night will be full of surprises, I’m sure they will have
no trouble pulling in good ratings.
