Oscar's Fair

The results are out. Nobody made a clean sweep this year. Not Brokeback Mountain, whose director Ang Lee picked up the directing Oscar but lost the Motion Picture of the Year category to Crash. Congratulations! I didn't manage to catch the movie but I've heard nothing but goodness. And isn't its theme so achingly haunting? What's up with 'Hard Out Here for a Pimp' winning the Best Original Song category? Rap culture is inching its way into the uppity Academy Awards, so it seems.

I think this year's Oscars is the fairest of all the awards so far. It honours all the great films of the past year, instead of just one or two. Crash, The Constant Gardener, Walk The Line, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, Narnia, King Kong. Even Wallace & Gromit.

Narnia and Geisha for art, costume and makeup awards as they are truly outstanding in recreating worlds so different that they wrench the audience from their place in this mundane world to enter another plane of existence, a beautiful, exciting one, for a couple of hours. King Kong for sound and visual effects - who can top the wrath of a tormented 25-foot monster?

The Constant Gardener should have picked up more awards but well, I think I should quit b***hing about it now. At least Rachel Weisz is deservedly honoured as Best Supporting Actress and yes, she's sweet, she still has to mention 'the luminous' Ralph Fiennes to remind the Academy that her co-star is just as deserving of at least a nomination. YEAH! What's up with that?! Fiennes deserves an Oscar nod as Justin Quayle! Oh well, Fiennes will never win that category anyway. It is Philip Seymour Hoffman's all the way. His portrayal of Capote is uncanny.

Finally one for Reese Witherspoon. That girl has proven herself. I think she wins the Best Thank You Speech category too - "June Carter once said, "I want to matter. That's what I'm trying to do." Yes Reese, you have mattered.