For the most part, I had to agree with all the winners of last nights show. However, a couple of awards stood out to me as being a little bit surprising:
1) Johnny Depp didn’t win. Now don’t get me wrong, Sean Penn fully deserved to win Best Actor. However, I was almost certain that Penn and Bill Murray would split votes between them and allow Depp to sneak up from behind to grab the prize. At least all three actors took home awards this year. Penn with an Oscar and Golden Globe, Murray with the Golden Globe, and Depp just the other night won the SAG best actor award.
2) Ken Watanabe didn’t win best supporting actor. I thought this one was a shame. Full credit to Tim Robbins who was great in Mytic River, but I just thought Watanabe gave the best supporting performance I’ve seen in a film since Lou Gossett Jr. In Officer and a Gentleman
3) Lord of the Rings won EVERYTHING. I’m thrilled. If you’ve been reading The Movie Blog long you know that I actually think Return of the King is the greatest film ever made. However, I never expected the academy to give it every award it was nominated for. I knew it would win Best Picture, but wow… I don’t think even Peter Jackson expected this.
Besides those little surprises everything else went pretty much as I expected. A very good show overall.
