There were three surprises of the night for me and that was Halle Berry winning, you go girl! Denzel winning also shocked and surprised me. Two black people winning in one night. Man, we’re finally “”progressing”” in H’wood. And Jim Broadbent winning for that lame Iris. I mean that one was a complete shock. Well the fact that he was nominated at all surprised me, but that he won, when he wasn’t even on most radar people’s radar screens was amazing.
Were the voters “”high”” when they selected LOTR for the best movie score? That has to be the worst and lamest score that I’ve ever heard. Why not just give Danny Elfman an Oscar if you are going to pick “”drivel”” like this.I originally started a running commentary during the show, but got bored with it about an hr into it. The show itself, despite the surprises seemed so “”watered”” down and non interesting. HERE ARE YOUR – OSCAR RESULTS BEST PICTURE “”A Beautiful Mind”” (Universal and DreamWorks) A Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, producers BEST ANIMATED PICTURE “”Shrek”” (DreamWorks) Aron Warner, producerBEST DIRECTOR Ron Howard, “”A Beautiful Mind”” BEST ACTOR Denzel Washington, “”Training Day”” BEST ACTRESS Halle Berry, “”Monster’s Ball”” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jim Broadbent, “”Iris”” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Connelly, “”A Beautiful Mind”” BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL) “”Gosford Park””Written by Julian Fellowes BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED) “”A Beautiful Mind””Written by Akiva Goldsman BEST ART DIRECTION “”Moulin Rouge”” BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY “”The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring””Andrew Lesnie BEST COSTUME DESIGN “”Moulin Rouge””Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie BEST EDITING “”Black Hawk Down””Pietro Scalia BEST MAKEUP “”The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring””Peter Owen and Richard Taylor BEST ORIGINAL SCORE “”The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring””Howard Shore BEST ORIGINAL SONG “”If I Didn’t Have You”” from “”Monsters, Inc.”” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman BEST SOUND “”Black Hawk Down””Mike Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING “”Pearl Harbor””George Watters II and Christopher Boyes BEST VISUAL EFFECTS “”The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring””Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM “”No Man’s Land”” A Noe Productions/Fabrica Cinema/Man’s Films/Counihan Villiers Productions/Studio Maj/Casablanca Production, Bosnia & Herzegovina BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “”Murder on a Sunday Morning”” A Maha Productions/Pathe Doc/France 2/HBO Production; Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT “”Thoth”” An Amateur Rabbit Production; Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM “”For the Birds”” A Pixar Animation Studios Production; Ralph Eggleston BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT “”The Accountant”” A Ginny Mule Pictures Production; Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount