Woohoo!

[apocalypsos]

WOOHOO JENNIFER HUDSON WON!

And see, I thought that was all I needed in life, and then Ugly Betty and America Ferrera won and just OMGYES! *flails* I cannot express how giddy I was about both wins. The Ugly Betty cast was just so very excited and I was just as excited for them, and they all looked fabulous and wonderful and now I totally want to go have a marathon of the show again. (Note to self: Get my dad to watch that show YESTERDAY.)

America Ferrera's acceptance speech was so adorable, just the kind of acceptance speech that's awesome to see every year, but that interviewer whose name escapes me at the moment (and don't bother telling me because honestly, I don't care) who cornered her as she walked offstage needs firing. A lot. What the hell kind of questions were those? Did she make a list of the most offensive ones and run down them?

And speaking of Ugly Betty, Salma Hayek walked on stage and I lost all of my heterosexuality. I suppose I'll find it under my computer desk later, but until then, HUMMINA.

Forest Whitaker looked delightfully stunned and I'm really happy for him. He's always a delight to see in a film because you can always count on him to do a hell of a job. It also led me to go check him out in Wikipedia -- I've just always been curious about his eye problem but never bothered to look it up -- and seriously, how cool is it that first he had a football scholarship, but then he lost it because of an injury and went to college for singing? And can sing opera? REALLY?! Dude, that's really cool.

As I said in cleolinda's comment threads, dear Eddie Murphy: This is your warning. No more dumb Disney comedies or fat suits. WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER, FUCKER. WE KNOW YOU CAN ACT.

I <3 Martin Scorcese. That requires no elaboration, except to say that I hope beyond hope that (deserved or not) he wins the directing Oscar this year. I want to see that standing ovation THIS MUCH. I know there are movies he deserves it more for, but if the Academy has to learn their lesson with a lesser movie, so be it. I doubt Clint Eastwood and Innaratu whose name I'm no doubt butchering and the guy who directed The Queen and whoever else may be nominated this year are really going to argue that they did a better job than Martin freakin' Scorcese. (He's one of the famous people I'd love to invite to a dinner party. He'd have amazing things to say about film and movie history and he'd be witty and intelligent and fabulous.

Okay, so maybe it required a LITTLE elaboration. Heh.

Oh, and I'm going to have to see Borat, aren't I? I've never been all that enthused about lowbrow comedy, but that was genuinely funny.

I'm starting to think Hugh Laurie wins awards simply so people can listen to his acceptance speeches. They're phenomenal. :) I adore that he always manages to thank Stephen Fry, too.

And I'm with cleolinda -- I don't get the Dane Cook hype at ALL. Not that I don't think he's funny, but he's not the be-all, end-all of comedians. Hell, I laughed more at Sasha Baron Cohen's speech than I've ever laughed at a Dane Cook performance. And the cute thing? Meh. I'd rather just stare at a photo of Jensen, thanks.

*****

While I'm at it, I'm going to take this opportunity to pimp Ugly Betty.

If you haven't given it a shot, head over to ABC.com and check it out -- they're streaming every episode since the beginning. It's hysterical, it's smart, and it's delightfully soapy fun. It's catty in all the best ways, and it's hopelessly addictive. And plus, WINNER.

Dooooo eeeeeet.

Comments

[kitarra.livejournal.com]

Don't bother with Borat. A few funny moments but mostly fairly lame and somewhat embarrassing.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Forest Whitaker looked delightfully stunned and I'm really happy for him.
He won for "Last King of Scotland" didn't he? I am not surprised. I saw the trailer and he scared the crap out of me. Okay, background: Idi Amin was one of my childhood boogiemen (the other was Anita Bryant). I had a total flashback to seeing that man on the tv screen...

Salma Hayek or Angelina Jolie can have that effect on lots of straight girls.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yup, he did. He creeps me out in that trailer -- it's amazing how much he looks like Idi Amin.

I've been on and off with Angelina, but Salma always has that effect on me. It's the chest. That woman has fabulous breasts and knows how to make them look gooooood.

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

So I assume that Masi & Heroes came away empty-handed?

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

I loved The Queen (seriously, full out love. I can't wait for the DVD), but Martin Scorcese deserved the award. I have never heard my brother talk so much about a movie. Give the man a freaking Oscar already.

Sooooooo psyched for Helen Mirren, though. And speaking of people who are made of awesome, a big awwwww for America Ferrera. She was so cute reacting to the interviewer who kept talking, too. Like "screw it, I'm out of here" Heh.

I don't get Dane Cook, either. He's is not cool enough (or cute enough) to get away with not wearing a tie. It's a formal even, Dane. Ties. Look into them.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yup, but I didn't expect them to. Masi was up against some solid competition, and Heroes will probably have a better chance next season.

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

he got cheated by the fact they don't seperate supporting actor by category the way they do for regular.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Helen Mirren can do no wrong. She's brilliant and I get the impression she's a lock for Best Actress.

America Ferrara was so tiny and adorable in that pretty blue dress.

[trinity_clare]

I was watching with one of my guy friends, and when America Ferrera won, he was all "Wait. Isn't that show called Ugly Betty? Because she's gorgeous." And that made me happy. It then devolved into a rant on how pretty movie stars win Oscars by uglifying themselves (I am looking at you, Nicole and Charlize), but we agreed to set it aside in our cheering for the totally deserving America.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Mirren is such a lock for Best Actress Dreamworks deliberately stuck Beyoncé in the category as a sacrificial lamb so Jennifer Hudson could crush the competition in Best Supporting Actress.

-blue

[hansbekhart.livejournal.com]

Dude, no way is Borat low-brow humor. It's a lot more sophisticated then you'd think, and the whole movie ... yeah, laughed so hard I literally cried. I definitely recommend it.

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Wooot! I missed the awards show, but since Ugly Betty is *so* my new crack, I'm thrilled to hear they won both! Hee!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, when the show won the entire cast piled on stage like a bunch of excited puppies and just kept flailing around behind the guy who was speaking for them. So it was America Ferrera and Eric Mabius and Becki Newton and Michael Urie and Tony Plana and Salma Hayek spazzing out and hugging one another, and then Vanessa Williams ran onstage and practically dogpiled onto the crowd and they all started squealing again. It was awesome. :)

And America Ferrera's speech was just so adorable. She said she was just so happy about all those little girls who come up to her on the street and say they're happy that she's playing this role, and she just couldn't stop crying, and you just wanted to SMISH her.

(Let's just ignore the fact that the idiotic interviewer for NBC who caught her as she was going offstage asked her what she had to say to the people who never thought she should play Betty and, when she was like, "Bwuh?" proceeded to ask her if she ever really thought she had a chance at all. Way to be nice and rude to a sweet girl on national TV, asshat.)

Man, I totally need to settle in for an Ugly Betty marathon today. Mmm-hmm.

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Ugly Betty is seriously just centimeters behind Heroes for my favorite show. I don't know why there isn't more fannish squee about it!

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww! Damn, I wish I'd seen that....

Hmmm... wonder if someone's got it up at YouTube...

[faith21.livejournal.com]

the horrible interviewer was Maria Menounos... she didn't even acknowledge America until she finished her little annoying speech, leaving the poor girl standing there like, 'do i stay here? am i going to be interviewed?' and then comes up with the most retarded questions ever. *sigh*

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Okay, in defense of Maria Menounos, I think her question was intended as like, "Those losers didn't approve of you, but you sure showed them. Ha!" It probably came off so badly because Maria is a crap interviewer who, like only too many of her type, asks pseudo-rhetorical questions, and America was in no condition to deal with something more complex than "So omg how do you feel?" and that didn't sound like it made any sense, to boot.