I am really dying to see Capote--and Good Night, Good Luck.
I was really glad PSH won. Really, there weren't too many categories (if any) where I had only one thing I would want to win. I thought George Clooney was a great speechmaker, though! He's pretty good at sort of standing up for Hollywood's wanting to talk about issues without slipping too far into self-congratulations. (I think one of Jon Stewart's best moments was after that Issue-montage when he said, "And none of those issues was ever a problem again.")
I very much liked GNGL. Capote is an extraordinary movie that really resonates with me because it raises so many issues about writing itself, particularly about a writer's troubled relationship to his/her subject: is that relationship about adoration or exploitation? I think you'd find the movie fascinating not only about writing but about fannishness and fame. And PSH is brilliant in it.
That said, of course I would have been delighted too if Heath Ledger had won, or Joachim Phoenix -- an embarrassment of riches in Best Actor this year.
Just a quick comment on something you said up-thread --
It's like comparing Casablanca to Love, Actually--one's about one relationship, the other's about how the relationships connect to each other.
This is a brilliant analogy in so many ways. My Inner Rhetorician is all agog. :D
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I was really glad PSH won. Really, there weren't too many categories (if any) where I had only one thing I would want to win. I thought George Clooney was a great speechmaker, though! He's pretty good at sort of standing up for Hollywood's wanting to talk about issues without slipping too far into self-congratulations. (I think one of Jon Stewart's best moments was after that Issue-montage when he said, "And none of those issues was ever a problem again.")
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That said, of course I would have been delighted too if Heath Ledger had won, or Joachim Phoenix -- an embarrassment of riches in Best Actor this year.
Just a quick comment on something you said up-thread --
It's like comparing Casablanca to Love, Actually--one's about one relationship, the other's about how the relationships connect to each other.
This is a brilliant analogy in so many ways. My Inner Rhetorician is all agog. :D
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