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To be honest, I didn’t watch all of the Oscars. When the show finally aired it just didn’t seem that appealing to me. It’s all become so routine, the same actors and the same actresses get nominated every year and win every year. They may have different names and a different film to plug, but it’s all in the same spirit: Politics, favoritism, and ignorant voting. Although the Academy Awards does have a flash of brilliance every now and then, it often tempers that with a return to its old tricks. Like the nominations of underappreciated actors and actresses ever stood a chance to win against their big name counterparts. Charlize Theron won because she’s Charlize Theron.

It was sad to see Murray loose Best Actor. I didn’t think he deserved it, but to watch him campaign for it, stash up all his chips and reputation on it, revere it like the golden talisman that would unite his career under a catharsis of brilliance, and then loose it was heartbreaking. (Oh, and Johnny Depp’s apology award will be for Willy Wonka.)

Peter Jackson did deserve ‘best director’ though. He succeeded in completing a truly monumental task. Return of the King’s viability in many categories is questionable, but Jackson earned that director award.