Slumdog! AGAIN?!?! WHAT. THE. HECK? Sorry, I’m just really annoyed. Oh, and sorry for the double post. Here we go for Best Song.
EDIT Nice performance for Down to Earth. But those Indian dancers were waiting in the beginning and the end to cut off DtE. Quite annoying. Okay, now they’re facing off and singing at the same time.
I really hope Wall-E get’s best song 
I wonder who’s going to perform…
Edit: Who’s this guy? O.o
John Legend didn’t do Down to Earth justice… it’s really too bad Peter Gabriel is boycotting…
EDIT: Alas, WALL-E snubbed in all the sound categories. Although, I should hold my tongue, I haven’t heard the Slumdog score/soundtrack, let alone seen the movie. But it’s on my list (after Milk)
Slumdog. Ugh! Even my dad predicted it. But only because he thought Jai Ho was more energetic.
Man, I’m pretty cheesed off. My parents are pestering me to go out for lunch now (it’s 12 pm here). I don’t care much for the other awards. Have fun watching the rest guys! See you around.
WOW…Wow…Seriously? This saddens me.
John Legend did a pretty good job on Down to Earth. the time constraint and the fact that Slumdog dominated didn’t help, but it was a good film too.
Let’s just be happy that WALL•E won Best Animated Feature, was nominated 6 times, was extremely well represented and had a great awards season!
I’m overall pretty happy with this year’s awards! 
It got snubbed for Best Song! I really thought “Down to Earth” was going to win.
I got interrupted during the performance of the soundtracks so I’ll watch it again later, but from what I saw it was wonderful seeing Michael Giachinno and the orchestra play part of the WALL•E score.
But still… those were all the awards that Pixar was nommed for right? That’s it?
I can’t believe it! Whats wrong with these people?! Wall-E should’ve won all those catagories!, but maybe I’m just being bias again. 
If I can quote my parents “I’m not mad, I’m just dissapointed”. 
Wow…That was Up’s trailer?? We didn’t see anything new…sadly…
Congrats on Best Animated Feature, big fat booooooooooooo on everything else. Hugh Jackman was abysmal, the guy that replaced Gabriel couldn’t sing for his life, and the montage, as suspected did. not. work. The songs don’t go together, that was obvious from the get go. I hope the ratings were abysmal enough to make them seriously reconsider even having the show next year.
Oh god, John Legend’s rendition of Down to Earth makes me want to deny that I am faculty at his alma mater.
I’ve never been much of an Oscar fan… to me, it’s pretty much just grown children throwing an overblown party to pat themselves on the back. So I wasn’t surprised by tonight’s results (except for one) but that’s to be expected. Because of this I “watch” the oscars in usually about 10-15 minutes (I keep an old VCR, tape it, and scan through it at 32x speed, stopping only here and there for those quick few announcements I want to hear). Got through it in 12 minutes tonight.
Wall-E won for best Animation in the Best Animation ghetto (what, they didn’t want to give it to Space Chimps this year?) I was disappointed in Thomas Newman not winning, but again, that’s not a surprise considering how the Academy votes. What I was surprised at though, was the incredible snub of Ben Burtt. Best sound went to Dark Knight instead of Wall-E. Anyone who really knows the craft of sound design knows how much that award should have gone to Ben Burtt, who had to start from a clean slate and invent everything (not just decide what a bullet should sound like). Possibly it’s because if I remember right (I could be wrong) I think Ben Burtt has won the Oscar in the past, and maybe they just didn’t want to give it to him again. But I thought that was a huge snub.
Did anyone notice though… that when Wall-E won for best animated feature, and as Andrew Stanton was walking up to accept the award, the music played wasn’t even from Wall-E? For those of you who recorded it, go back and have a listen. Isn’t it customary to play the music from the winning movie as the winner walks up? Instead they just played some generic music. Gee, wasn’t that nice? 
This is so sad. Yet another year proving the Academy does not “get it”.
Actually at this point I’m even more disappointed with Ben Burtt being denied two Oscars he so 200% deserved than WALL-E not winning best original screenplay.
I thought this was a very satisfying year at the Oscars. I thought Hugh Jackman as the host was just perfect, as he kept the show going in a fun, classy Broadway appeal.
Most of the categories I predicted for came true, and so that just makes me happy. I don’t know about all of you guys… But I’ve actually seen much of the films from 2008, so I actually have an opinion of the films than just being biased towards Pixar and voting for Pixar every time they’re nominated without even taking a breath to see what the other competition is (:roll:). As a film fan, I would like to say a job well done for all the people who won an Oscar, and also a wonderful nod to all the creative talents who got to be there tonight.
As for a Pixar note, kudos to WALL-E for winning Best Animated feature, it really deserved it.
I agree with Disney_Guy. I too have seen many of the films, or at least know a lot about them or read parts of their scripts.
I think that the Academy did a pretty good job picking winners this year, even though I would have preferred to have seen Down to Earth win. Jai Ho is still a very good song though, as is O… Saya, so the competition was tough.
As for Best Original Score, I would have actually liked to have seen that maybe even go to TCCoBB. From what I have heard of them, I rank the scores like this.
TCCOBB / WALL•E
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire.
They are all amazing, but that’s just my preference on them - and I am very familiar with film music, so I get to know what I find really brings a score up to the next level.
The Sound Editing and Sound Mixing awards. You know, I did want WALL•E to win here, but everything did kind of point towards Slumdog Millionaire in the Mixing category, which is combining the foley sounds, with the dialogue, and the music, and everything else like that. The sounds, and mixtures in Slumdog Millionaire, were put together in an expertise way, so while the other nominees in this category, would have all been deserving in their own right, I can’t really be mad that WALL•E didn’t win here. I would have liked it to win Editing though… I had actually initially thought a couple of weeks ago when the nominations were announced, that TDK was going to take the Mixing award. The sounds there are really good. It’s not just bullet sounds, every piece of equipment used has it’s own unique sound in their, and it is really well put together. I was slightly surprised when it took editing, and it actually made me think for a moment that TDK was going to take both!
Anyway, congratulations to the filmmakers who worked on WALL•E, for winning Best Animated. It really is an honour to win it, and even to just be nominated in the other categories that it was. If someone told me that the work that I did on a film was one of the five best last year, I would be happy to know even that. It’s like at the Olympics, how sometimes people are disappointed because they came in fourth, just missing the podium. In reality, they have just prooved that they are the fourth best in the world at their particular sport. And that’s something to be proud of.
On an end note, did anyone recognize the music during the upcoming films of 2009 montage at the end? Michael Giacchino’s own Ratatouille!
- C-3PO
Yeah, actually you could see Ben Burtt in some of the already archived shots of people arriving for the event, on the red carpet. A lot of peeps recognized him and applauded. Then there was a much larger applause for Stanton, I heard, but I missed that one.
Here is one of the places you can go and watch stuff:
justin.tv/jungledragon1/archive
Stanton is at the very beginning of one of the segments. You have to go back a bit, of course, to see the nice intro to animation, for Wall-E anyways, the other movies were giving short shrift and they were done poorly, all of them. After Stanton is short films. Screenplay is right before the animation segment. Sound editing was covered over here by Canadian broadcasting talkies.
Several minutes of Down To Earth, what was the big deal, and yes I thought the black guy filling in didn’t do a very good job for Gabriel.
Also, I wasn’t happy they didn’t show the faces of so many nominees like they always did years ago when I last watched this.
Totally agree with you Disney_Guy! I saw many of the nominated movies and thought the Academy picked the deserved winners. And WALL-E definitely deserved the Best Animated Feature 
Also thought Hugh Jackman was entertaining as host - LOVED his opening musical segment and actually really liked the showtunes number as well, though I’m not quite sure what that really had to do with anything Overall, pretty enjoyable Oscars for me!
Oscars are shit. There’s no justice.
I’m almost always extremely ticked off after the Oscars, but I was pretty pleased with the show. WALL-E got Animated Feature, and I’ll admit I was worried after the Annies and seeing Jack Black there, but they came through. I’ll admit that I was expecting to see WALL-E to take home something for sound or song, but I haven’t seen the other movies so I can’t really say. Ben Burtt’s already a legend, plus what he did with WALL-E he had really alreasy done for R2-D2, so it wasn’t as if this a new thing. I think he should of got it, but, oh well. “Down to Earth” kinda surprised me, I can understand the reasoning, I don’t remember the name of the song that one, but it was pretty good, though I didn’t think the first one was that great. I was mainly still ticked that Springsteen didn’t get a nom for “The Wrestler”, which is an amazing song, and at the very least deserved a nom. WALL-E was really well represented in the monatages and what no, so I was happy with that. And Heath Ledger won for Best Supporting Actor! That was quite awesome, and he 100% deserved it.
Hugh Jackman was pretty good, and the new format for the show was cool, but it’s still not the Oscars without Billy Crystal. I don’t get why they won’t bring him back, that would take the ratings way up. Overall, though, a pretty good show.
Whoever said a bunch of big rich kide thorwing a overblown party and patting themselves on the back,I agree.Stupid Miley Cyrus! 
Anyway congrats to WALL-E for the win,I feel bittersweet about it because people are only gonna say “see WALL-E won but not CARS,it was a bad Pixar movie”.