Monday, February 23, 2009

And the winner is ...

My Oscar streak remains intact.

No, I didn’t pick all the winners.

Instead, for the umpteenth year in a row, I had not seen a single movie that was nominated for Best Picture at last night’s Academy Awards.

A confession, here. I don’t go out to the movies all that much.

Even still, I actually thought I had a shot at breaking my record this year. About a month ago, I saw “Gran Torino,” the Clint Eastwood flick about racial prejudice. I’m a big Clint fan.

“Gran Torino” was good, not great. It didn’t get nominated. I haven’t seen any of the others. My desire to see “Doubt,” fueled in large part by several people telling me that if you went to parochial grade school you really have to see it, remains unfulfilled.

The big winner last night was “Slumdog Millionaire.” I can’t tell you I’m going to run out to the movies this weekend to see it.

Sean Penn beat out my favorite, Mickey Rourke, for best actor. Kate Winslet took best actress.

I guess the emotional highlight of the evening was the award for best supporting actor going to the late Heath Ledger for his role as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” That one I’d seen, as a rental.

Ledger was very good, but I’ll admit that I did something that happens all too often to me as I watch a movie at home.

I fell asleep.

I’ll add last night’s winners to my Netflix list. Maybe I’ll even be able to stay away through them.

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