One of the nice things about movies is that they keep!

Congrats to all.

The Artist? Meryl Streep over Viola Davis? Jean Dujardin over Pitt, Clooney, and Oldman?

What absolute garbage. I should have watched the NBA All Star Game.

just wondering.

... The Artist is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

I did not miss the words. I was at the edge of my seat. I did not want it to end.

The previews came on before the movie with upcoming movies--- all spaceships, transformer type aliens, explosions, car chases etc...

I looked at my wife and said--- "all these movies look the same".

Then the Artist began--- and it was like no other movie I had ever seen.

It was such a relief to see something new on the big screen.

The acting, the danging, the dog... everything about it put a smile on my face.

We left the movie theater in a terrific mood.

For them to award or even nominate movies people actually saw?
Trivia: The Artist never placed within the top ten for weekend earnings. (Though its total earnings are still better than The Hurt Locker's.)

They made lots of money which makes them good and award worthy.

One of the best reviewed films of the year, and it grossed a ton. The Academy gave an Oscar to ROTK, while not a single Harry Potter film even got nominated.

I'm not suggesting, as the snarkmeister downthread, that we nominate Transformers for BP (although some wonder why Bridesmaids didn't make the top 10), but as you say, a The Artist never cracked the top 5 in earnings. OK, fine, give it a Film Festival award -- but Best Picture?

last time hosting, he's turning into Red Buttons...

LOOKED TERRIBLE!!! big red lips and a body frame that was so skinny, she looked starved!!! Love all the great causes she and her lover do, but d*mn she looked way to slim. JMHO.

She can be stunning, but not when she overdoes it like she did tonight. She has natural beauty. No need to go overboard.

I get why you want to do that for the cameras outside. But she took the time to pose on stage? So it was funny when one of the later winners mocked the pose.

I went last year and the theater was about 2/3 full. This year, there were about 10 people there. It's a puzzle because there was no admission fee for the event. It is a Cinebarre theater so food was served at your seat for which you had to pay, but it wasn't necessary to purchase anything to be able to go there to watch not only the awards ceremony itself, but the pre-show and the post-show, too. The theater had a trivia contest during the commercials and there was a contest before the ceremony started to guess the winners with prizes awarded later. So, despite the fact that some of the acceptance speeches were boring and too long/emotional, my friend and I had a good time.

I caught a little of the show and I liked the way the cut the people off when they got too long. I never could watch because I didn't understand why people would want to drag on and on the way they did. I get wanting to thank people but I never understood the need to do it right then and there.