And the Oscar goes to ...
It sneaks up on me every year, coming sooner than I expected. The event where the superstars of Hollywood all come together and give themselves a pat on the back. The Oscars always create much fanfare and never fail to showcase some of the most strange and bizarre fashion statements (I’m looking at you, swan dress).
Despite the ridiculous fanfare, the Oscars are always fun to watch. For some reason seeing what movies win the awards is enjoyable, even if I haven’t seen most of them. It is also always interesting to see pretty much all of Hollywood crammed together in one room (as the opening monologue often points out).
If the show only consisted of giving out awards it would probably last an hour tops and have no need to cut off long acceptance speeches. However, there are always montages and performances of the always-terrible nominees for the best original song, which make the show last half the night.
However, the last few years I’ve had a problem with the Oscars: I don’t have time to watch them! Without fail, since I’ve come to Uni, I always find myself working on some paper the night of the Oscars. Each year I tell myself that I’ll hurry and finish my work so I can finish my work early and watch, but I always fail and end up working during the Oscars.
Last year I was able to watch the very beginning with Jon Stewart’s opening and the first couple awards before I went to work. But this year I didn’t even do that. I was busy writing a paper, but every half hour or so I would go to the IMDB front page to see what awards had been announced (most of them seemed fairly predictable to me).
By Monday I had heard of the highlights of the show — Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola giving Martin Scorsese his first Oscar, silhouette dancers making the “Snakes on a Plane” logo, and Al Gore making an appearance — and proceeded to watch them on YouTube when I got home.
But despite the conveniences of the Internet that allow me to know what happened without watching it, I’m totally going to watch it in real time next year …
… if I don’t have any homework.
— Deren Kudeki