I guess I made it past Donna… not much point in staying up other than stubbornness since, surprising no one, Peter Jackson and crew pulled off a clean sweep. This may be heresy among my friends, but I’m kind of annoyed that it got everything; at the very least I’d hoped A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow or Belleville Rendez-vous might take best song, and the best adapted screenplay award was obviously given for the accomplishment of the trilogy as a whole rather than the individual film. (I still have my doubts as to whether any of the three screenplays, or the entire set, are actually the best of anything.) Of the non-Rings results tonight I’m most pleased that Sofia Coppola won for original screenplay and Denys Arcand won for best foreign-language film.
It’s over
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Hi Peter, I was recently looking on your site about “Whats that song” and couldn’t find the response to the song playing during the movie Serendipity… can you tell me the name of the upbeat jazz song?? This is the only way I could find to contact you…. hope to hear from you soon. Thanks,
Stephanie Toronto, ON CANADA
Well, I don’t think it’s heresy – the LOTR was definitely a great accomplishment but I don’t know that it was worth 11 awards either. Definitely not best song… I mean, heck, the Elvis Costello (sung by Alison Krauss) song was better than the Annie Lennox and I LIKE Annie Lennox. But couldn’t they spread around some of the art direction, costume and other awards? I mean, they did get Best Director, Best Picture, you’d think that the others could’ve been shared. Although nice to see another Canadian in Howard Shore, take the podium. What would the Oscars be these days without “foreign films” eh? And btw, why was LOTR not considered a foreign film ? Is it because it was in English instead of in French like the Arcand? I mean, it was shot completely in a “foreign country” right?