Oscar Winners

Best dressed, full show commentary, etc coming tomorrow.

I gotta say though, this is by far one of the best dressed Oscars in memory. I thought no one looked genuinely bad and even the stuff that was not the best was at least a risk and interesting. Ellen did good. They didn't use her enough, though.

One of the best lines: "Without the blacks, the jews and the gays there wouldn't even be an Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar." That and the "Goodfellas meets Big Momma's House."

And regarding the show, people will always bitch: too long, boring, no good winners, but whatever. I thought this was one of the smoothest Oscars in a long time. I wasn't bored, some stuff could have been trimmed, there weren't any really great speeches, and the human shadow puppets could have been saved for one big montage instead of several ones. But whatever. It was fine.

The Winners:

Best Picture - The Departed
Best Director - Martin Scorsese - The Departed (WAHOO)
Best Actor - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress - Helen Mirren - The Queen (don't hold your Oscar up like that)
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Best Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay - The Departed
Best Editing - The Departed
Best Original Song - "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Score - Babel
Best Documentary - An Inconvenient Truth
Best Documentary Short - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others
Best Visual Effects - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Best Cinematography - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Costume Design - Marie Antoinette (YOWZA!)
Best Animated Feature - Happy Feet
Best Sound Mixing - Dreamgirls
Best Sound Editing - Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Live Action Short - West Bank Story
Best Animated Short - The Danish Poet
Best Makeup - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Art Direction - Pan's Labyrinth