No shocks. I’d have liked Julie Christie to have won but Cotillard’s was a tour de force and as Daniel Day Lewis’s golden baldie proves, there’s nothing the Academy likes better than a tdf. Both the winners are worthy enough I guess but Christie and Lee Jones’s performances were more nuanced and subtle in my view. Still think Matt Damon and The Bourne Ultimatum were worthy of nomination though not perhaps to win. Nice to see it got 3 technical – especially editing. Bardem’s existential cycle-path is a monstrous, genuinely scary creation. I guess Casey Affleck (Jesse James…) was a bit unlucky; in another year…

Pleased for Tilda Swinton who seemed deliciously and innocently impervious to all the hype (hope she wasn’t acting). But I don’t get it. Maybe it was the writing but the idea that her character could have ever have reached a senior executive position in a tough company as played was incredible. In fact her twitchy brittle performance tends to play to an all too common woman-in-business stereotype. As if Gilroy didn’t really like to make her a truly effective corporate snake. I’d have thought someone a bit more like Glenn Close’s Pattie Hughes (Damages – BBC1) would have been a better foil for Clooney’s Michael Clayton.

Nice that ‘Falling Slowly’ from Once won best song. If you haven’t seen this charming little movie try and catch up with it.

And so the circus leaves town for another year…..

7 out of 10 wasn’t bad – better than last year!

I was gobsmacked (and delighted) that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won best song. Really well deserved!

It's nice when the right people win one for a change!

regards

Z

I did a review of Once last October. As you can see I loved it!

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