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Mirren, Scorcese Big Winners At 79th Oscars
Katie Uhlan
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: Focus
Over a long six and a half hours, including red carpet, dreams came true and came crashing down.
Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar, after 16 years of being nominated, for his direction in "The Departed," which also received the Best Picture honor at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The show was somewhat an underdog show when it came to some of the other awards with Alan Arkin taking away the Supporting Actor award for "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Little Miss Sunshine" also receiving with the Best Original Screenplay award.
Also an unexpected win was American Idol reject Jennifer Hudson, who won Supporting Actress for "Dreamgirls."
A humbled Hudson looked shocked as she accepted her award, "Oh my God! I have to just take this moment in. Look what God can do," she blurted out.
As expected, Helen Mirren took home the best actress statue for "The Queen," all the while looking and acting completely distinguished and lovely.
Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor award for his performance as Edi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
"An Inconvenient Truth" won the Best Documentary Film award and former Vice President Al Gore made a plea to the audience, "we need to solve the climate issue ... the will to act is a renewable resource," Gore said.
Host of the show, Ellen Degeneres, was somewhat predictable in various suits throughout the night, and the jokes were usually lame, with one good one at the beginning of the night. Degeneres remarked about the nominees, saying, "Look at Jennifer Hudson, America didn't vote for her [in American Idol] and Al Gore, America did vote for him ..."
As always, the outfits played a huge role in the show, with a full four hours of coverage by E! Entertainment Television live from the red carpet. The overall trend in women's fashions was color; Celine Dion wore a bright green halter dress, Jessica Biel wore fuschia and Jada Pinkett Smith wore gold.
The men were looking "sterling" as one of the E! reporters commented after chatting up nominee Mark Walhberg.
The performances were generally bearable, with the exception of the "Dreamgirls" song. which was very good, and the Celine Dion performance, which was painfully bad.
The show had its high moments, including a very funny song by Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilley about comedians being unable to move into the Academy Award nominee realm, but the overall tone of the show was somber, with long instrumental songs done by the orchestra and far too many montages of why American films are so great, and what the process is in writing a screenplay, and so on.
Next year, the Academy should think about shortening the show, maybe less montages or maybe spread out the important awards (actor, actress, director, picture), find a funny host and definitely forget to invite Dion.
Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar, after 16 years of being nominated, for his direction in "The Departed," which also received the Best Picture honor at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The show was somewhat an underdog show when it came to some of the other awards with Alan Arkin taking away the Supporting Actor award for "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Little Miss Sunshine" also receiving with the Best Original Screenplay award.
Also an unexpected win was American Idol reject Jennifer Hudson, who won Supporting Actress for "Dreamgirls."
A humbled Hudson looked shocked as she accepted her award, "Oh my God! I have to just take this moment in. Look what God can do," she blurted out.
As expected, Helen Mirren took home the best actress statue for "The Queen," all the while looking and acting completely distinguished and lovely.
Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor award for his performance as Edi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
"An Inconvenient Truth" won the Best Documentary Film award and former Vice President Al Gore made a plea to the audience, "we need to solve the climate issue ... the will to act is a renewable resource," Gore said.
Host of the show, Ellen Degeneres, was somewhat predictable in various suits throughout the night, and the jokes were usually lame, with one good one at the beginning of the night. Degeneres remarked about the nominees, saying, "Look at Jennifer Hudson, America didn't vote for her [in American Idol] and Al Gore, America did vote for him ..."
As always, the outfits played a huge role in the show, with a full four hours of coverage by E! Entertainment Television live from the red carpet. The overall trend in women's fashions was color; Celine Dion wore a bright green halter dress, Jessica Biel wore fuschia and Jada Pinkett Smith wore gold.
The men were looking "sterling" as one of the E! reporters commented after chatting up nominee Mark Walhberg.
The performances were generally bearable, with the exception of the "Dreamgirls" song. which was very good, and the Celine Dion performance, which was painfully bad.
The show had its high moments, including a very funny song by Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilley about comedians being unable to move into the Academy Award nominee realm, but the overall tone of the show was somber, with long instrumental songs done by the orchestra and far too many montages of why American films are so great, and what the process is in writing a screenplay, and so on.
Next year, the Academy should think about shortening the show, maybe less montages or maybe spread out the important awards (actor, actress, director, picture), find a funny host and definitely forget to invite Dion.
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john jones
posted 2/26/07 @ 7:51 PM EST
Celine is a great singer why pick on her she did'nt write the song.
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