Regarding Daniel Craig: please don't invite him back as a presenter. He seemed to be very unhappy in his role. Instead, let him sit in the audience and enjoy a few cocktails.
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I really liked the presentation format for the Actress in a Supporting Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, and Actor in a Leading Role categories. It really highlighted acting as a creative act. It also highlighted actors as a community of individuals. I only wish you had done the same for directing.
Really: Reese Witherspoon?
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And it seems that you also shortchanged the category of Best Film, in the same manner that you shortchanged the category of Best Director. Yes, Steven Spielberg is a director, but couldn't you find five directors whose films has previously won in the Best Film category?
Or, perhaps, directors aren't the "pretty people" that you would like to have splashed across television screens.
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The camera work during the annual "remembrance of the dead" was atrocious. Half the time I couldn't read the name of the deceased individual. This would have been a good time for a static camera. Did Baz Luhrmann and his crew film this section?
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I liked "thinking through" the process of making a movie—pre-production, production, post-production—and tying it to the appropriate award categories.
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I was really hoping that Mickey Rourke would win Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in The Wrestler. He didn't. But he did win Best Male Lead at Film Independent's Spirit Awards the night before, so all is good.
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Overall, it was a fairly good, if somewhat bland and subdued, celebration of the cinematic arts. I suppose this is the award ceremony we deserve during a time of economic turmoil and extended warfare.
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Ben Stiller was great. The song category was terrible. The awards for the actors and actresses was great. I thought the same on the memorial for the departed. Who was doing the camera shots!? And we finally didn't have the music playing to stop the speeches.
I have to agree: Ben Stiller was great. And the fact that he stayed in character as Joaquin and even seemed to make Natalie Portman a little uneasy was great. Because the whole Joaquin thing really is a train wreck, whether or not its a joke. It should make us uncomfortable—for him!
Stiller played it perfect. Funny stuff indeed.
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