After a while, it got boring
mo watching the oscars
Best animated feature - “Oh look!! Wall-E won best animated feature!”
2 hours later- “Oh, Slumdog won… again”
After the show- sigh 
Call it a small and somewhat conspiratorial theory, but perhaps the academy wanted slumdog to win so many for reasons beyond it just being a good movie.
Since the economy is now in the sewers rather than being flushed in the toilet, would it not be a promising sign to show that a movie made for a lower budget with lesser known actors can still reach heights of oscar worthy proportions as well as being a commercial success? Part of me thinks it’s a convenient way for hollywood to find ways to cut down money. But this half is very much a weird one
Oh and best oscar moment for me was Kunio Kato’s speech
youtube.com/watch?v=EtlpHgAls1o
His delivery at the end of the speech was perfect 
I had guessed Iron Man or The Dark Knight for Best Visual Effects, until Saturday night, when I saw this site. It was then that I knew where this award was going.
Haunt - I know this is off-topic, but I am really curious… How’s that film festival? Is there a good selection of films there?
- C-3PO
Yeah I only caught about an hour’s worth of the show (all I wanted to see was Wall-e win anyway) as I wanted to watch a movie then. But from the hour I watched I’d say it was very predictable! I was 7 for 7 with my assumptions.
Lol…!
Like a lot have already said, it’s disappointing to me (even though I didn’t actually watch the Oscars) that Ben Burtt did not receive ANY recognition for his work on WALL•E; which was, to say the least, astounding. I have never seen Slumdog Millionaire either, but I just don’t see how it’s fair that half of the Oscars went to that movie alone. 
I’m extremely happy that Heath Ledger recieved Best Supporting Actor; even though I am not a Dark Knight fan. I remembered hearing about his death last year and thinking how hard it must have been for fans to watch that movie and know that he was gone. He deserved it. 
I think if I had actually watched the Oscars this year, I would have been really angry. So I’m kind of glad I’ve never watched it before.
little chef
If I had an award for the most predictable awards ever… I dare say I would have given it to that show… Although Danny Boyle trying to do ‘Tigger’ showed that not everyone can pull off comedy, and if your British you’ve got very little chance of succeeding!
On the Award for Sound… How hard is it to re-create the sounds of Mumbai and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire… Not as hard as creating the languages of a Universe of Robots… WALL-E was to put it bluntly robbed. How long will it be before the academy notice Talented Composers Again? Maybe Princess & the Frog can claw it back for them?
Kate Winslet’s win, was out of sheer pity… come on it was only a matter of time before the academy finally went… “Yeah give her one”.
Predictions for 2010:
Best Animated Feature: Princess & The Frog
Everything else… well we shall have to wait and see what’s released around Christmas and The New Year… Possibly a Nomination for Downey Jr. for best actor in Sherlock Holmes, but you’ll never know.
Predictions for 2010: best special effects: James Cameron’s Avatar
Haven’t seen “slumdog”, buit I doubt it can top Wall·E.
Exactly. Ben Burtt was deserving of that award and we all know it. Why the Academy chose to disregard his work as not “up to par” with that of the sound effects in Slumdog Millionaire is a complete mystery to me.
As far as any predictions for the winner of the “Best Animated Feature” award for the 2010 Oscars go, I’m betting that Up will take home the gold. Like you said though, we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
– Mitch
I don’t know about you guys, but in my opinion, I believe all of the awards were well deserved and the winners were rightfully chosen. We forget that the fact that these movies were nominated is a big accomplishment itself.
BEST PICTURE 2009: “Where the Wild Things Are”
BEST DIRECTOR: Spike Jonze, “Where the Wild Things Are”
Who’s with me?
TS2: Hmmm, I really don’t know. They might get nominated for other awards, but I don’t see it winning best film or director.
One question, TSS…
Do you hate children??? (jk) 
I agree.
Although I was devastated that Wall-E did not win, the media titles chosen were deserving. Slumdog Millionare , from what I’ve heard (I’m not aloud to see it yet) was amaizing…
I’m actually pretty disappointed that WALL-E didn’t win any other awards, especially for sound design. I mean, best animated feature was good but…
I’m not really allowed to watch slumdog millionaire but it must be pretty good. I don’t even know what it’s about…
Its about a slumdog that knows all these questions to the millionare game…
really good 
I, for one, have watched it, and I’m sorry, as much as I love Slumdog for its exotic locale and inspired storytelling, it felt a little ‘manipulative’ and sentimental for me. I mean, yes, it’s good, really good, but not that good.
It certainly did not deserve Best Achievement in Sound and Best Achievement in Original Song for sure. Yes, I loved ‘Jai Ho’, but it was not as heartwarming and poignant as ‘Down to Earth’. And I can’t think of any reason whatsoever why it deserved Sound when Mr Burtt’s sound effects were more brilliant and inspired.
It’s still showing 19 weeks (that’s like… 4 months and 3 weeks after its release, not even Dark Knight lasted that long!) after its theatre bow in Oz, with still 3 showings a day in major cineplexes (while others which are only a month old are down to one a day). I don’t get the hype. I really want to love it, but after it became ‘flavour of the year’, it started to get overrated and I now have a mild disdain for it.
Sorry if I offended any fans. I like it, I really do. Just thought the Academy could have made history by voting Best Pic for a superhero or animated film (you know which ones I’m talking about), instead of pandering to their foreign viewers. To have done that would be unprecedented, and last year was their best shot. Needless to say, they blew that one chance, and it’s not likely to happen again for a long time, judging by future releases.
End rant. JAI HO!
If you do not think Slumdog deserved an Oscar, you cannot say JAI HO to me!!!
Sorry TS2, can I say “Peace Out” instead?
Look, I didn’t say it didn’t deserve the Best Pic Oscar, if that was the “an Oscar” you were referring to. Out of all the voted nominees, I was rooting for Slumdog in Best Pic too.
But I thought it didn’t deserve the ‘clean sweep’ of the other awards, especially when there were better nominees in the other categories. It smelt too much of a conspiracy and patronising of globalisation, as much as I want the Academy to open up to foreign-made films.
That said, I would like to stress again that I loved the film, it’s a 4/5 star for me. But when it started to get overhyped and hog the limelight, that did it in for me.
YES 
oh and JAIHO
Uh… 
Is anyone going to respond maturely to my comments?
Fair 'Enuff.
Jai ho, assalamualaikum, 和平与你同在 and peace be upon y’all! Amen.