However there was one last climax, the biggest celebration in Hollywood, the most important event in the annual movie-schedule. The 86th Academy Awards... And let me say, this year, they were really special!
However the Academy managed to make this event still very enthralling - with a few unexpected turns - in addition to the amazing performances and a lot of celebrity-fun.
The Show: Ellen DeGeneres (one of my all-time-favourite talk-masters) hosted the evening like in 2007, and boy was she hilarious. She manages to be completely non-PC, while being absolutely sweet, cheeky and snotty at the same time, which makes her a superb comedian and entertainer.
She maneuvered through the show jauntingly and seemingly unburdened. At one point she even ordered pizza from a local L.A. delivery service and gave some slices to the front-row-celebs. Even Brad Pitt helped her passing some paper plates and napkins for the A-List crowd.
And then there was the selfie (pictured above)... In order to do some product placement for Samsung (probably the biggest sponsor of the show?) Ellen shot a selfie using her Samsung Galaxy and uploaded it on Twitter. After she show, she admitted that her original plan was just doing one with Meryl Streep and that all the other celebrities just got up and went along - and they managed to break down twitter, and set a new record for the most retweets (over 2 million by now). We have Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Channing Tatum, Brangelina, etc. all in this single selfie which might go down in history as the most star-studded selfie ever...
The Perfomances: Like the years before we had a lot of performances again. I kind of missed the funny things Hugh Jackman pulled off when he hosted, but the musical acts were all very entertaining.
- Pharrell perfomed "Happy" from Despicable Me 2 and got Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong'o, Amy Adams and even the legendary Meryl Streep to shake and dance along.
- After a heartbreaking "In Memoriam" segment (in which they surprisingly didn't mention deceased Glee-Superstar Cory Monteith), Bette Midler majestically performed "Winds Beneath My Wings".
- P!nk sang "Somewhere over the rainbow" as a tribute to The Wizard of Oz and Judy Garland whose 2 daughters, including Liza Minelli and son were also in the audience. P!nk was presented by a weirdly dressed Whoopie Goldberg, fiercly showing her red "slippers".
- Finally John Travolta got to present Idina Menzel... famously mispronouncing her name, calling her Adele Dazeem, causing a huge uproar in the internet and probably unsettling Idina, whose performance of Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" from Frozen was less than perfect, to say the least... At least her new "stage-name" found a place in pop-culture.
The Winners: Of course the internet is full of lists of the winners and losers and here is my opinion to the ones who made and and the ones who didn't.
I am really happy for Gravity winning all those Oscars. Seriously, even though those are only the "small" ones, they are all well-deserved. However I would have been happy to see the Best Actress Oscar go to Sandra Bullock rather than Cate Blanchett (even though she probably deserved it as well for her brilliant performance in Blue Jasmine, but come on, we're talking about Hollywood's elite, they're all supposed to be excellent), since Bullock basically pulled a huge one-woman-show in space, dragging the viewers through all stages of depression, hope, fear and panic.
12 Years A Slave was obviously gonna win Best Picture - everything else would have come across racist (a fact even Ellen mentioned in the introduction at the beginning of the evening), and Lupita Nyong'o was the shining star of the evening anyways, legitimitely winning Best Supporting Actress.
Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey winning for Dallas Buyers Club were no big surprises as well. Especially Jared Leto who sailed through award season like a pirate picking up every trophy on the way.
However, once again I was hoping Leo would finally get his Oscar this time. DiCaprio has been nominated 4 times and never got what he wanted, whereas it was McConaughey's first nomination (at least for an Oscar).
Red Carpet: For me, one of the most exciting part is the red carpet before the show and the stars making their ways to the various after-parties.
My pic for best-dressed woman of the night must be Sandra Bullock, closely followed by Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears (the latter "only" attended Elton John's Viewing Party).
As much as I like Jennifer Lawrence, I didn't really dig her Dior dress, but compared to the light buoy that was Liza Minelli's outfit, she looked like a complete goddess.
In conclusion, this once again was a really entertaining show/night with a lot of suspense and excitement, beautiful people, light-hearted moments and real emotions. I enjoyed this Oscar night much more than the previous two and one of the many reasons for this is the wonderful Ellen DeGeneres!
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