Oscar Night 2008

Today is special for any movie lover. This is the Oscar night. Due to the time zone differences, it will be actually on tomorrow's (25th of February) early morning. I like to watch the ceremony itself. So, I record it on video when it's being aired, live. This way, I won't see all the ads when it's re-run. I have kept this tradition for 3 years! Also, I do not visit IMDb or any other movie or news site till I watch the thing myself.

The Award itself means nothing to me. After all, they gave Shakespeare in Love the Best Picture Award!!! It's the gathering of all the stars and directors. It's the features that are shown in between the awards. It's the speeches made by the winners.

I skipped college today! I left college at about 9 am and then I went straight home. Since the movie scene has been very active lately, rips for No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were released yesterday. I downloaded them, but I had to watch them. To hell with college!!! After watching both of them, I threw in Michael Clayton as a bonus.

So, in case I don't publish the reviews on time, here are the Official Amorphous Awards... (for the movies I have seen, of course)

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: ----- (haven't seen any of the movies)
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Saoirse Ronan for Atonement
Best Director: The Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men
Best Original Screenplay: ---- (haven't seen most of the movies except one)
Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men
Best Cinematography: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Editing: No Country for Old Men
Best Art Direction: There Will Be Blood
Best Costumes, Makeup, Music, Song: ----- (haven't seen most of them except one or two)
Best Sound: No Country for Old Men
Best Sound Editing: No Country for Old Men
Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Best Animated Feature, Foreign Movie, Shorts...: ----- (haven't seen ANY of them!!! I am a loser!!!)

So here it is, ladies and gentlemen. No Country for Old Men is the best movie I have seen so far in 2007. There is a lot of movies that I have yet to see, especially the Foreign ones (my favourite!). I will try to write a review for the three movies I have seen tonight, if possible.

Edit:
I don't think I will be able to record it. I haven't used my VCR in ages. I am pretty sure that the head will need cleaning and plenty of it. Besides, I don't think I have video tapes large enough to record the whole thing (about 4 hours). And the last thing I want is what happened to me a couple of years ago: I was watching the recorded show when I found that I didn't record the whole thing. I switched to the TV channel and they were showing it, so I continued from where I stopped, ads and all.

I have faith, strong faith in the TV scene to upload a torrent of the show. Keep up the good work, pirates.