The Oscars 2015 came and went last night. I feels like this year is zooming by. Although, I didn’t manage to get to catch up with a lot of Oscar nominees (not just Best Picture), I was looking back at my past two years and realized this year, the whole having a week of watching Oscar nominees, was effective because I actually watched 10 movies that were nominated in various categories. I beat my own personal record so thats something. I’m guessing, next year, I’ll try to schedule Oscars earlier, except how? The Valentine’s marathon clashes with it a little. Anyways, I have a year to figure it out.
We celebrated Chinese New Year dinner while watching Oscars this year, so that was a pretty nice addition because for once, I’m not sitting there by myself with a cup of tea in a lonely dining room. I actually had my mom and her friend, plus my boyfriend (who was dozing off eventually). It was appreciated because its one thing to talk about red carpet in my head but its always more fun to hear other opinions.
Lets start this with Best Dresses that wowed me! 🙂 The order is from left to right for Top 5.
After that, I also liked: Emma Stone, Margot Robbie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
I’m a little on the fence with Marion Cotillard’s dress. I can appreciate its elegance but the back part wasn’t really my cup of tea.
BEST MOMENTS
This year’s Oscars had a lot of moments. The moments are not in any order. I’m just numbering them so that I don’t get carried away.
1. Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Kendrick and Jack Black opening act
Respectable and paying tribute to a ton of epic movies with awesome singing and adding a little funny moments with Jack Black butting in from the audience. It was classy and fun all at the same time. Unfortunately, Neil Patrick Harris cracked only a few jokes last night that I found worked and didn’t feel awkward. Can we have Ellen back for next year?
2. Patricia Arquette’s speech & Meryl Streep’s reaction
Oscars 2015 was not only full of surprises (which were more like unexpected turnouts), but it was full of meaningful speeches. Not so many people thanked the Academy but rather used the opportunity to share a personal view. Patricia Arquette spoke for women rights equality. While, documentary winners also did it: Citizenfour spoke out for fighting for privacy and democracy, while Crisis Hotline:Veterans Press 1 shared a heartfelt speech dedicating the award to her son and making a point that suicide should be “talked out loud”.
3. John Legend and Common’s performance followed by John Legend’s speech
Other than “Everything is Awesome”, which was a really fun performance, I haven’t heard any of the other songs. In the Red Carpet/pre-Oscars part, they had talked to Tim McGraw and how it was going to be a tissue-worthy performance. It was an extremely calm and soothing song. Then, John Legend and Common was on for the last original song performance for Selma called “Glory” and that was just absolutely awesome. They had to win this and they did in absolute style with John Legend’s inspirational speech.
4. Eddie Redmayne for Best Actor in Leading Role
Its always great to see an Oscar winner completely shocked by winning. Plus, talk about an awesome honeymoon gift, right? Eddie Redmayne’s shocked and enthusiasm was amazing and charming and adorable all at the same time. I kind of started hating myself a little for not finding the time to watch The Theory of Everything before the Oscars. But then, its still rented and I’m going to try and get that in this week some time.
5. Lady Gaga’s performance for The Sound of Music 50 year tribute
The Sound of Music is my most favorite movie of all time. I was wondering what Lady Gaga’s performance would be for and when they announced it, I paused a little because c’mon, Lady Gaga? The Sound of Music? Not exactly a match. BUT, other than the fact that there was a few parts you can tell her forcing an English accent as she sang to replicate the song, she did a fine job and her voice is a lot more than Bad Romance and all her other funky hits (that I’m not exactly a huge fan of). She did a stellar performance and Julie Andrews looked absolutely touched by it all. Julie Andrews is incomparable and her showing up at the Oscars made my night 🙂 Lady Gaga’s gown here looks a lot better than that avant-garde one she wore on the red carpet, just my preference…
THE AWKWARD AND SLIGHTLY CREEPY MOMENT
It all started great with making fun of John Travolta and his butchering of Idina Menzel’s name last year. But when he turned around and got all touchy and making that weird face. I was a little disturbed with the whole thing. Oh goodness…Need to move on and not look at that…
In terms of awards, there were a few unexpected but well deserved surprises.
The Grand Budapest won all the artistic merit ones: Best Costume Design, Best Hairstyling and Makeup, Best Production Design and Best Original Score. I personally loved all of those things and I loved that each of those winners thanked Wes Anderson for thinking up the fun and quirky adventure that the Grand Budapest was.
I haven’t seen Whiplash but I didn’t really expect it to win Film Editing. But then, all the other nominees had a deserved spot to be there, just looking at the concept. I only knew Boyhood and that one had good editing too. I need to find Whiplash and check it out 🙂
Which goes to say that I’m going to be searching out Birdman now because it won all the awards I had wanted Boyhood to win. Boyhood was a little gimmicky but I hold true that it was a brilliant movie. We’re all entitled to our opinions, right? Thats what makes the blogosphere so fun 🙂
This has gone on long enough! Time to wrap this up!
Did you watch the Oscars? Which dress did you like the most? What was your favorite moment? Were there any surprises?
Tranquil Dreams 