The Oscars

Just roughly 5 hours ago I was sitting like a zombie in my living room, tired out of my mind, been up all night until 6 in the morning on a school day. Why you ask? Well to view the Oscars live of course. Seeing as I live in Norway, everything that's going on in the states, such as the Oscars, naturally happen at night in our time meaning I'm looking at some long nights when viewing the election and such as a couple of hours ago, The Academy Awards.

Starting of I think Mathew McConaughey was amazing in Dallas Buyers Club, but I'd say this year Dicaprio was just a little more deserving of the "best male actor in a leading role" award. He's been nailing countless movie roles for decades; he's shown himself as one of the most versatile actors on the planet earth and in 2013 he did one of his absolutely finest roles ever. The way he brought Jordan Belfort to life seems to me very worthy of an Oscar, and then add the fact that the statue has already slipped away far too many times. C'mon, at least give him an honorary one.

As far as the award ceremony in the general, there where very few surprises. If anyone thought that the other nominees in the "best special effects" category where there for any other reason than decoration then I guess they feel rightly dumb by now, don't they because as pretty much everybody knew, and I'm not talking "felt", "had a hunch", "most likely"; no I'm talking as everybody knew, Gravity took home the award. A little more of a surprise, or not so much a surprise as it was just less clear in advance; Gravity ended up taking home the awards for best sound mixing, best sound design, best editing, best original script and best director. That is quite a mouthful and I can say straight up the movie deserves all of that.

That being said I was getting a bit nervous, because with Gravity most definitely having taken up the Academy's attention I was worried they'd overlook one I deemed more fit for the overall grandslam price. This year we where looking at several amazing contestants for "best picture" but I'm very pleased to say that my winning favorite took it home; 12 Years A Slave won the award for "Best motion picture", and with that I am very pleased.

Beyond that we can say to no ones surprise that Frozen took home the award for both best animated feature film as well as the one for best original song. Admittedly I haven't watched all the nominees in Foreign films, documentaries and shorts so I won't discuss those awards here. I would like to end of though, with saying that Ellen DeGeneres was an absolutely AMAZING host. She really, truly was!