The Oscars have come and gone again. This is what you might have missed:
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Ellen Page’s “I wonder if I can make her head explode” expression when Barbara Walters made her sing and play guitar on the pre-show interview.
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Gary Busey menacingly telling Ryan Seacrest that he really wanted to pick his brain and then groping Jennifer Garner on the red carpet.
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Trying to figure out the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
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The Bourne Ultimatum randomly winning three Oscars (one more than There Will Be Blood).
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More Miley Cyrus than anyone asked for or knew what to do with.
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Not nearly enough Julian Schnabel.
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Brad Bird’s insanely nerdy speech when he won for Ratatouille.
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Cynthia Wade, Brooklyn resident, winning for best Documentary Short.
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Daniel Day Lewis’ speech which included the sentence “I’m looking at this gorgeous thing you’ve given me and I’m thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since and it seems to me that this sprang like a golden sapling out of the mad, beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson.” That’s fucking hot.
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Across the Universe and Norbit will never be referred to as “Oscar Winners.”
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Nostalgia. SHITLOADS of nostalgia.
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Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performing and then winning for Best Original Song.
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The “In Memoriam” segment, which will forever have an audience reaction of “Oh man, that guy died? No shit…”
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A collection of actors (including Tom Hanks and Renee Zellwegger) who seemed incapable of opening their eyes on stage.
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A typically anti-climatic ending with No Country For Old Men winning Best Picture in an unexceptional (but not as frustrating) Oscars ceremony.
You forgot:
The eternal dis of Brad Renfro not being included in the In Memoriam list.
I say that Gary Busey is the crazy uncle of Hollywood. He’s sorta insane but he still gets invited to the family gatherings.
When Barbara Walters is four generations removed from the interviewee, she should not be allowed to interview them.
There were so many awkward presenting speeches.
Particularly Harrison Ford and Owen Wilson. They were so bad I was waiting for the punch line in their speeches but it never came.
I would have given the world for Norbit to be an Oscar winner.
A sound editor is involved with all the sound in a film, including sound effects, dialogue, foleys, tones, music, and just about every sound you hear in a film. They deal with live location sound and all sound put into a film after the shoot.
A sound mixer combines all of these sounds and decides on the levels and relationships between all the sounds and the music.
Sound mixers and sound editors are different people. I used to be a sound editor. Louise
Thanks for making the distinction.