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Friday Night at the Movies: Oscartime!

Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 06:28:20 PM PDT

Last Sunday night brought us the 80th Academy Awards, or the gay man's Super Bowl as it's otherwise known.  The occasion was enough to settle the writer's strike, because of the importance of one of the premier examples of free advertising the year offers.  Appropriately enough, the movies showcased last weekend were sorely in need of free advertising, because only one of the most nominated movies -- Juno -- cracked the $100 million revenue mark.

But that's tiresome political wonkery:  this is the fucking Oscars!!!  Friday Night at the Movies brings you a chance to talk about the Oscars.  Which movies were you happy to see win?  Which ones got robbed?  Which were unjustly ignored, and which rewarded by idiots who wouldn't know a good movie if it smacked them upside the head?

The results, for those who missed them:

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Documentary: Taxi to the Dark Side
Best Foreign Language Feature: The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Screenplay (Original): Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Screenplay (Adapted): Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood
Best Music (Score): Dario Marinelli, Atonement

Multiple award winners:
No Country for Old Men: four
The Bourne Ultimatum: three
There Will Be Blood: two
La Vie en Rose: two

Biggest loser: Jon Stewart.  Gotta say, he sucked.

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