1. Best moustache — Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”
2. Best performance by a wife of Tim Burton — Helena Bonham-Carter in “Sweeney Todd”
3. Most revealing demographic — 19/20 actors nominated for actor/actress in leading or supporting role are white.
4. 2nd most revealing demographic — 15/20 actors, etc, etc. are under 50.
5. Most revealing aspect of British media coverage of the Oscars — the amount of attention paid to actresses’ dresses
6. 2nd most revealing aspect British media coverage — emphasis on the fact that the 4 Oscar-winning actors are all European (because the big British film, ‘Atonement’, sank without trace).
7. 3rd most revealing, etc, etc. — we forgot to mention that all six of the nominated directors are American.
8. Strangest omission by British media coverage — Roger Deakins, British cinematographer, nominated TWICE for Achievement in Cinematography and could have received a third nomination for his work on ‘In the Valley of Elah’.
9. Best achievement by an actor in 2007 — Philip Seymour Hoffman for performances in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ (nominated for actor in a supporting role), ‘Savages’ and ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’
10. best achievement by a director with a film in contention this year who has been directing for over 50 years — Sidney Lumet, who directed ‘12 Angry Men’ in 1957 and ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ in 2007.
11. Dustin Hoffman award for best performance in a film about someone disabled/with dementia/very ill — Mathieu Amalric in “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (locked-in syndrome), Julie Christie in “Away From Her” (dementia), Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (mental illness), Daniel Day-Lewis (”There Will Be Blood”), Johnny Depp (”Sweeney Todd”) & Javier Bardem (”No Country for Old Men”) (all murderous psychopaths) and Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will be Blood” (a bit of a limp).
12. Laurence Olivier award for best shouting — Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will be Blood”
13. Best film for female roles — “There Will Be Blood” (yes, I know, that’s the point — one of many reasons why it’s ridiculously over-rated)
14. Films about natural resources, land and the rise of American capitalism which are a million times better than “There Will Be Blood” — “Chinatown” and “Once Upon a Time in the West”
15. Best eye make-up — Helena Bonham-Carter in “Sweeney Todd”
16. Best soundtrack that wasn’t nominated — “Juno”
17. Best scene in a lawyer’s office — opening scene of “Michael Clayton”
18. Best Clinton joke at the Oscars — “Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in ‘Away from Her’ … a moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband,” Jon Stewart said. “Hillary Clinton called it the feel-good movie of the year.”
19. Worst speech at the Oscars — Marion Cotillard
20. Largest number of pretty actresses in a film about ‘locked-in syndrome’ — “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Brilliant — 13 and 18 my favourites!
you forgot:
“best worst hairstyle”- Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men!