Which lasted longer, the Oscars or Avatar? Well, the highest grossing movie and its creator-producer-director James Cameron did not win Best Movie or Best Director. Instead, those awards went to 'The Hurt Locker' and Kathryn Bigelow (Cameron's ex-wife), the first female 'Best Director.'
Next year, how about considering cutting 10 or so awards and instead adding more (meaningful and funnier) monologue and skits? Also, why not have Ryan Seacrest host the thing, bring the nominees on stage, have them sit on the couch like on American Idol, and one by one tell them 'the tribe has spoken' as he declares the last actor standing the winner? By the way, no more 'The Oscar goes to...," and back in with "The Winner is..." I liked it!
No Farrah Fawcett memoriam, but Michael Jackson?
