I’m entirely delighted, of course– though I did oddly badly in the prediction pool at our Oscar party but not picking LotR every time. (I figured that a spread-the-wealth impulse would take hold among voters who were committed to giving LotR the top two prizes, and so I didn’t, for example, pick ‘Into the West’ for best song. I don’t think it should’ve won, but I also didn’t think it was going to.) Given that they weren’t going to revoke the past Oscars to Beautiful Mind, Chicago, and Polanski in order to give them all to Peter Jackson, it was right and proper that they just piled awards onto LotR last night.
But if Clint Eastwood and Sofia Coppola (and maybe some of her dad’s friends) went and beat up Ron Howard and each took one of the Beautiful Mind Oscars, reasoning that they should have gone to Fellowship leaving this year’s awards free for Mystic River and Lost in Translation– well, that would seem only fair.
On another note: during the acceptance speech for ‘Barbarian Invasions,’ I joked that only Quebecois filmmakers had to thank three governments from the podium. But Todd Seavey says the movie had a surprisingly free-market and pro-US political tone to it.
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