I didn't care for this year's Academy Awards. I was upset particularly of how they paid tribute to those we have lost in the past year. I felt Queen Latifah's singing "I'll be seeing you," distracted their final bow and the screen wasn't used fully for their memory. Hugh Jackman was okay but he was more song and dance and the opening was okay. The presenters especially in the acting categories was a change from annual tradition of last year's winners presenting this year's winners. There were no clips shown neither but several collages of film retrospective which I found took up too much time. Jerry Lewis should have received a longer tribute. Maybe they should have also honored somebody who has been nominated numerous times but never won like Glenn Close but her time will come I'm sure. The winners in the acting categories were pretty predictable as well. Everybody I rooted for were long-shots and long like Frank Langella, Melissa Leo, etc. I was glad that Slumdog Millionaire won the awards particularly because it was a great movie that didn't have star power except for Anil Kapoor but it had a great story on screen and off-screen of how the story was made to film. It's a feel good movie and we all need to feel pretty good nowadays.
Review of The 81st Annual Academy Awards
