Oscars

I was overall not very entertained by the show itself but I'm ok with the winners. Best surprise was that Crash actually won. I didn't see many of the nominated films this year but Crash was one of the ones I did see and one that I would endorse everyone should see so it seems appropriate that it won. Also, the way the co-screenwriter and co-producer of Brokeback Mountain behaved so self-importantly during her acceptance speech for writing made me cheer out loud that she didn't win. I'm all for making movies that are anti-homophobic - believe me, I am - but dude, it's a western where two men fall in love. It hardly makes the social statement of a film like Crash. (Ok, I guess I should see it but the whole western cowboy thing turns me off; if they were gay astronauts, I'm there.)

Meanwhile, it's talked about every year and was even made fun of during the telecast but why oh why do they cut off the winner's speeches? There is positively no excuse to cut off the winners of the Best Picture, of all categories. Yes, she thanked her financiers and perhaps we could care less about that but it's still the biggest award of the whole show and the woman got cut off! Awkwardly.
That's just wrong.
If anything, get rid of the red carpet thing ahead of time with BIlly Bush and give the award winners more time.