Monday, February 25, 2008

Oscars 2008

Congratulations to Ratatouille for winning Best Animated Feature! I especially enjoyed Brad Bird's acception speech, thanking his Jr. High guidance counselor and all "the dreamers supporting a rat who dreams."

Unfortunately, even with three nominations, Enchanted didn't pick up Best Original Song with "Happpy Working Song," "So Close," or "That's How You Know." I did enjoy the three performances throughout the night, though. I feel a little sorry for Amy Adams when she was singing "Happy Working Song." Performing that song, really only works in context with the film and she didn't have any kind of back up--It was just her alone on the huge stage. That really must take some courage to perform that type of song alone on a stage with billions of people watching. Atleast with "So Close" and "That's How You Know" there was a scene and background performers similar from the film. I really think that they could have thought of something for "Happy Working Song." Maybe have animated pigeons and rats along side her as she was singing, even.

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