feeling listless

Film The Oscars 2002
Which I did stay up for, live. Went to bed at about ten-to-six in the morning, not live. For once, the show was thoroughly entertaining and felt like a celebration of film, not the mutual-backslapping seminar it usually becomes. Before I get to how I did, some moments of note from the live coverage: the cast of the new Spiderman film appearing on stage to the tune of the old TV cartoon ('Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can' -- conducted by John Williams no less); anyone who saw the BBC coverage will have visited upon Greg Proops getting a mention in for Clive Anderson and Danny Baker, Dyan Cannon (who ... why?) laughing like she'd never heard comedy this funny before and Tom Conti (oddly name checked by Julia Roberts during the show) looking like someone who wanted to be somewhere else) and Alan Cumming in a stupid white suite; the audience clapping for no clear reason for five excrutiating minutes before the show. So on with the debriefing...


Best Animated Film: Waking Life Not nominated (why?) somehow knew 'Shrek' would win although I didn't love any of the nominations.

Art Direction: Amelie Moulin Rouge, which was to be expected I suppose. Only bone for Baz of the night.

Cinematography: The Man Who Wasn't There The Rings, oddly. Although there were a large number of styles at play.

Costume design: The Rings Moulin Rouge. Again, could have gone either way, although Rouge does have a stupendous number of unique designs.

Film editing: Momento (surely) Black Hawk Down. Surely not. Haven't seen although the clips I have seen seem to be of a traditional war film.

Foreign language film: Amelie No Man's Land. Wierd.

Makeup: The Rings. Quite rightly. Finally I got one right.

Music (score): The Rings. And again. Although a bit of a surprise to be honest considering the competition.

Music (song): Vanilla Sky Monsters Inc. Thank god they finally gave Randy something.

Sound: The Rings Black Hawk Down. See above.

Sound editing: Monster Inc Pearl Harbor. Huh?

Visual effects: The Rings. Yep, pretty much.

Writing (adapted screenplay): The Rings or Ghost World I think this was the moment in the proceedings when I realised eveything was going to go terribly wrong.

Writing (original screenplay): Momento (surely) Godford Park. Just as happy.

Best Supporting Actor: Sir Ian McKellen Jim Broadbent. Again, no complaints.

Best Supporting Actress: Any of them. Jennifer 'The Rocketeer' Connolly, then.

Best Actor: Tom Wilkinson Denzil. Worth it to see the colour drain from Russell Crowe's cheeks.

Best Actress: Judi Dench Halle Berry. You've got to love her.

Director: Peter Jackson Now I've nothing against Ron Howard personally. 'Apollo 13' is a great film. So is' 'Far and Away'. But he's up against David Lynch and Robert Altman. Artists. People whose films you can write whole books about. Nope, see doesn't work.

Film: The Rings How could 'A Beatiful Mind' win? Now again, haven't seen it. But it seems from what I've read to be a fairly conventional Hollywood film. So of course it wins. Wouldn't want to waste the Oscar on something which innovative and special, would we?

I'm going to bed. I need to catch up on some sleep.