And the Oscar Goes To

Best OSCAR show ever!
I enjoyed it from start to finish!

Anne Hathaway & James Franco were great, fantastic hosts! Everyone looked beautiful. All the presenters were young and professional; great pairs of presenters.  Anne can really sing!

Best Dressed Women -

Anne Hathaway
Annette Bening
Marisa Tomei
Amy Adams
Scarlett Johannsen
Cate Blancette
Helen Mirren
Michelle Williams
Melissa Leo
Natalie Portman
Sandra Bullock
Halle Berry
Gwyneth Paltrow
Celine Dion
Hillary Swank
Helena Bonham Carter
Reese Witherspoon

Best Dressed Men

Colin Firth
Jake Gyllenhaal
James Franco
Jude Law
Hugh Jackman
Kevin Spacey
Russell Brand

Best Dressed Couples -

Mark Ruffalo and Sunrise
Robert Downey Jr. and Susan
Jeff Bridges and wife
Mark Wahlberg and wife

Best Acceptance Speeches

Natalie Portman
Colin Firth
Christian Bale
Aaron Sorkin
Melissa Leo
Original Screenplay    -  oldest winner, overcame stutter
Best Director - Tom Hooper Kings Speech - thanked his mother, told story of how Kings Speech was created
Documentary - Inside Job
Makeup  - The Wolfman Rick Barry
Original Score - Randy Newman

Memorandum - Celine Dion sang beautiful song

Lena Horne – Halle Berry tribute

Kodak Theater - Beautiful, I have been there when visiting L.A.

Missed Seeing -

Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Cameron Diaz
Jon Hamm
January Jones

Great Commercials

Cindy Crawford and kids
Jennifer Lopez and twins

All the songs nominated were lovely this year.  I was especially moved by Gwenyth Paltrow's preformance from her movie Country Strong.  I haven't seen that movie yet but it's now higher on my list!

I think I was too hard on my review of Inception.  We went to Paris and the movie was filmed in places we had been. I should see it again!

The Winners this year were easy to predict.  I correctly predicted 17 of the nominations.  I usually always get the Best Supporting Actress winner wrong!  It was great to see Kirk Douglas present the award to Melissa Leo!

Great to see Billy Crystal! It was neat the way they had Bob Hope hosting from years ago; Billy told a great story about meeting Bob Hope when he hosted years ago.

I saw the BAFTA Awards (held in London) for the first time this year.  I thought it was brilliant!  The Oscars this year were equally wonderful!

The Finale -

Enthusiastic preformance by the children (from New York).  They sang Over the Rainbow.  All the new Oscar winners came out and sang along at the end.

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards from 2010 will always be my favorite!  I've been watching the Oscars every year since I was 10!