Well, on the plus side, we'll get to see the Tolkienites froth at the mouth. ;-)

So, the Lord of the Rings went home with nada????

NO! My favorite movie of the year. Oh well, bring on the Oscars.

There were commercials over the presenting of the Best Drama award here. They cut back to Brain Grazer making his remarks. Did this happen anywhere else?

Im very happy that 24 won best drama and keifer won for best actor in a drama series. 24 is a excellent show and got the credit it deserves

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I have seen him at a lot of award shows with the spiked hair. Not just tonight.

Kinda glad that LOTR didn't win.

Very good movie, but very overrated.

Um, NO!

I totally agree with you that 24 is an excellent show, but it didn't win best drama. Six Feet Under did (...speaking of overrated....)

Biggest Disappointment of the night: David Lynch and Mulholland Drive getting shut out.

Harrison Ford's speech: Good. He's so anti-Hollywood that I was very impressed that he not only showed up, but talked for a minute or two. Beats the crap out of the Shirley MaClaine/Barbra Streisand 94,000 minute rambling fiasco from a couple of years ago.

Surprises: Naomi Watts and that chick from Six Feet Under's voices. Who know they had accents? Makes their acting even more noteworthy.

Missing: A drunken Elizabeth Taylor to hand out the Best Drama.

"Thank God for HBO"

Um, YEAH!

My random thoughts:

- Yes, THANK GOD FOR HBO

- Six Feet Under - Wow! I was intrigued enough to watch every minute of every episode (Thinking back, I believe this is the only time I've been able to do that for a season - except for the Sopranos DVDs)... I'm thrilled it beat out The West Wing, although I wouldn't have minded it losing to the Sopranos (though I haven't seen the third season yet)

- The babes of the night:
- the blonde with Crowe
- the Globe girl
- Audrey Tautou (must find out who she is)
- Jessica Alba
- Rachel Griffiths (j/k - what was up with that dress???)

- Jennifer Connelly finally getting some respect (Hallelujah!)... though of course she should have won last year for Requiem, although I haven't seen A Beautiful Mind (or any of the pics nominated for best drama), all indications are that I'll love it

- Jennifer Garner winning - huh?? I've only seen one episode of Alias, and I liked it, but this is not Awards worthy material! Should've gone to Edie. Period.

- Rachel Griffiths winning - :thumbsup:

- Thank God for HBO!

Exotic French Girl. Check out Amelie. I've only seen the trailers, but she looks so interesting. I really want to see that movie. Besides it's made by the same dudes who gave us City of Lost Children, and Delicatessen, so it has to be good. :D

I was watching the awards show then my husband got all pissy and demanded "Why do you watch this crap?" and switched over to Tora Tora Tora. Just what I need, another bad war movie made in the 60s. Oy.

Uhh...the Globe Girl this year is Pat Benatar's daughter....she's 16 I think...if not, very close.

I saw Pat Benatar this summer and she had her daughter's "act" perform a few "songs". Extremely forgettable lip-synched pop candy.

As for the show...

???Charlie Sheen??? Does anyone still watch Spin City?
How did he beat out Tom Cavanagh (Ed) and Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) let alone Kelsey Grammer?

My favorite part of the evening? Easily the fact that Lord of the Rings got shut out. Did it even win one significant award? Bodes well for the Oscars as i hope it gets shut out again.

Was very glad to see Moulin Rouge, A Beautiful Mind, Kidman, Crowe and Altman get recognized. While Gosford Park wasn't my favorite film of the year I did enjoy it and think it was the result of some amazing direction on Altman's part. Talk about Jackson all you want, but I doubt he could handle 30+ prominent characters like Altman did in Gosford and have it come out so good.

I would have been happy with anybody but Jackson winning that award. I will swallow my pride and say that I have started to change my opinion on Mulholland Drive, which I trashed immediately after I saw it. While it's still not anywhere near a favorite of mine I could accept Lynch winning. Howard did a great job too. Anyone of the directors did a better job than Jackson did in what I would echo from previously in this thread was an overrated Lord of the Rings.

So going into the Oscars looks like Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind are the leaders. :) I wonder, I know the Globes ignored it and I have yet to seen it, but will Black Hawk Down get any play from the Oscars? I know it made a lot of top ten lists but I also know it has had a lot of controversy too.

No, its not. Amelie was made only by one of them. Not both of them. Jeunet and Caro havent made a movie together in 10 years.

it's called NEPOTISM...see also: Keifer Sutherland.

mostly tragic choices this evening. especially on the TV side of things. i don't think i understood or was happy with any of the tv winners.

it was very nice to see Jennifer Connelly "break through." she will be the favorite in the supporting actress category. of course last year the heavy favorite was Kate Hudson and they went with the lady from pollock who is now doing the tv show max bickford. sad.

Sissy Spacek will be favored to win the best actress award. Crowe best actor. One of those to will fall victim to Oscar going against a favorite. Halle Barry and/or Denzel Washington could sneak in.

Buscemi should get the best supporting actor Oscar for Ghost World, but he probably won't.

They did show some Blade Runner shots. The one where Daryl Hannah had Harrison's head in between her legs. Wasn't that from there?

That song was so horrid. It hurt my ears when I was in the movie theater. I would have rather seen Moulin Rouge pick that one up.

Yeah, that Sting song sounded like he knocked it off in five minutes, but what I was glad about is that generic movie songwriter extrordinaire Diane Warren (Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Because You Loved Me, How Do I Live Without You and now There You'll Be :yack: ) went home empty handed again. What do any of her songs have to do with the movies that they're in, except producing a chance to include movie clips into the next Celine Dion music video? I just love watching her lose year after year. Bring on the Oscars! ;)

ps: due to some idiotic rule, the song from Moulin Rouge (Come What May) is ineligible for the Oscars. It was written -- but not used, for Romeo + Juliet, so they don't consider it an original song from this movie. How stupid is that?

Rachel Griffiths was actually a well-established film actress before Six Feet Under. Check out her roles in Muriel's Wedding, Me Myself I, and My Son the Fanatic. She had an accent in all those.

When she showed up on 6FtU with an American accent, that actually surprised me.

I'm hoping that it gets some nods just so I can watch Ridley lose for the second year in a row. Now don't get me wrong, I like most of his films (Hannibal excluded), but if there has ever been a less gracious loser than Ridley was last year, I've never seen him. He looked like he was about to take a swing at some one. Hey Rid, you took home perhaps the most dubious Best Picture award in recent history, let Soderberg have his moment in the spotlight for a sec, OK?

Decker: You do know that that is how Ridley simply is? He's like that at every award show. He's just incapable of publically displaying emotion. I suppose that's the way he was brought up.

I think he would have come off a whole lot better IF he were incapable of displaying emotions. He just seemed to be displaying inapropriate emotions on that night. It was really a hoot to watch.

Maybe Ridley was aping Russell Crowe. :)

That song made my ass twitch.

Patman: Yeah I know! How come no one is griping about Russel? He's a talented actor, but my God, the man has a Starship Troopers size bug up his ass.