… 17 for 24, not my greatest night of Oscar predicting.  I missed all 3 short form films, but was happy to see that 2 out of 3 were the films I wanted to win.  Should have trusted my instinct on those.  I was, however, disappointed by the Screenplay victories, particularly Adapted.  Up in the Air was way too good of a film not to win a single award, and its screenplay was incredibly smart and funny, which seeing as (500) Days of Summer didn’t even get nominated for a screenplay award this year means that smart and funny didn’t play well with the AMPAS this year.  Instead emotional played.  So be it.

Also, I missed hearing the performances of the Original Songs.  It’s a shame they completely cut that out and still ran half an hour over.  Can we all agree to getting rid of the “each Best Actor/Actress nominee gets their own speech about him/her” thing next year?  It just doesn’t work and is entirely too long.

Ok that is all.  And not a moment too soon either.