and the Winner is ....

ok, so my picks and favorites didn't win the Oscars, but I was checking and they did win the Spirit Awards, so Im happy.

Anyway last night Academy Awards presentations in my opinion, it was the most entertaining in years, cos last year presentation I was so bored, and this year it didn't seem that long,neither so boring.

Thought Anne Hathaway did a nice job as presenter, James Franco got a bit shadowed by her, but did ok, and the presenters of each award were with a nice sense of humor, without the necessity of dropping weird and un tasteful jokes ( as they usually do).

My mantra for the night worked in some categories, as it failed completely in others, however I was happy enough that The Social Network did not win for best picture, and the award for best picture definitely convinced me to watch The King's Speech, which ironically enough in a list of best picture mainly formed by depressing/sad films, the winner was one with a lighter subject and full of a wit humor and a sense of achievement ( that was taken from an article), it means there is still hope for happy dramas.

Inception received a good dose of technic awards, and it just broke my heart a bit when won TRON in Sound Editing, which btw was the only nomination TRON received. But the award that truly broke my heart was the one for best Original Song, all the 4 nominated songs were great and I truly liked them, the one I liked the least was the theme for Toy Story 3, and that was the winner, the thing is, that the song just didn't touch my heart as all the others did, and Randy had won before, so that was the bummer of the night for me.

I was really happy with the choices for Lead Actor ( Colin Firth)/Actress (Natalie Portman) and Supporting Actor ( Christian Bale)/Actress ( Melissa Leo), all of them are great actors; but will confess that I gave a huge scream when they announced Natalie Portman, and believe me sorry neighbors ,cos it was 4 sth am in London, but I honestly loved her work in The Black Swan, and am becoming a fan of her acting,specially cos she tends to play very different roles.

Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock, did such a nice job introducing the best lead actresses and actors, in a very fun and respectful way, will finish this post with the videos of those 2 amazing actors ,presenting this years Best Lead Actor and Actress .

Enjoy !!!

The Oscars are closer and depressing movies are the main theme

ok, so I don't blog much, Im just bad with keeping this updated, anyway as The Oscars are this Sunday ,it seemed a good enough reason to blog and make my 1st post of the year ( shame on me we are in the end of February and this is my 1st post, moving on).

I spent this week trying to catch up with the best movies nominees that I hadn't watched yet, and most of them were surprisingly depressive, sad stories, about sad events with really good actors and performances, but still sad and depressing.

For 2011 the Best Picture nominees are : The Black Swan, The Fighter,Inception, The Kids Are Alright, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network , Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter's Bone.

I still have to watch The Fighter and The King's Speech, Toy Story 3 will be honest, never liked the 1st, couldn't care less for the 2nd so I decided to ignore the 3rd, one day I might watch, but its an animation that I've never liked, and believe me I tend to like most of the animations I watch.

But out of the 7 I have watched 5 have a quite depressing story/plot , some have an ok ending, but still the journey is sad and tense, seriously can't happier drama movies be nominated?

I know that happy movies don't cause such an impression maybe, but doesn't mean they aren't good.

When I watched The Kid's Are Alright I was amazed by how they made a simple and updated type of family work on screen, will admit that some bits didn't work so well, but overall its a really good, heartfelt film with a different feeling from all of the other nominees, its "The Little Miss Sunshine" of the year, don't think it's gonna win, but Im happy it got nominated even in an unfair competition level, and it's the closest we get of a happy film.

The Black Swan it has a very passionate and director's feeling, I will be

surprised if doesn't win for best direction, but still sad. For me it was easy to relate to the main character in some levels, since I danced ballet for 15 years of my life, however the relation ended when she took the competition to be both swans to a complete other level of obsession and compulsion. However its amazingly played by Natalie Portman and beautifully directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Inception, has a complicated ,twisted and very clever plot, that sometimes its easy to get lost, but I thought it was very well executed and the special effects were WOW, for original screenplay and FX its for sure a strong candidate, but hey don't be fooled the construction for that entire dream land/world comes from grief = sad.

Those 3 movies, were the ones that I actually enjoyed watching from the Best Picture nominees, won't take the credit of the other films, neither from "The Social Network" that I hated, however they were extremely sad and sometimes violent just for the sake of it.

Will take Winter's Bone as an exception of a sad movie that had a strong

family reason for the girls pursuit for her father, when everything she had would be lost if he didn't appear in court, an extremely raw and cruel film. But no 17 years old should go through what she did, and have those responsibilities. John Hawkes , as an addicted uncle that 1st has no interest in helping Ree and then rescuing her, really good act, perfect in my opinion for Actor in Supporting Role.

Well Sunday its close, and then we will know who the winners are, but as I say to some friends lately I cheer for the film I don't want to win. Last year was Avatar, and this year, pls pretty pls NO "The Social Network", if it doesn't win I'll be happy enough, and if any of my choices win in the categories I think they are a perfect fit I'll be over the moon.

For Saturday and Sunday I'll try to catch the movies I'm missing, Fighter, The King's Speech, and maybe Blue Valentine and Rabbit Hole, which btw don't seem to be the most uplifting movies,but well...I can always hope for happier nominees next year,right?