Old news February 2007

It was Oscar night, and here's the Oscars 2007 timeline, preliminary version.

Very nice introductory monologue by Ellen DeGeneres. Unfortunately, after that, her material wasn't that good.
I liked the clips they did, I usually do. One can see the effort that is poured into them.
The montage with Morricone's movies was the exception—instead of using his best works, they used the ones nominated for their score. They actually did a Morricone music montage without the music from Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America or Giu la testa. That's... just... bad!
~~Why did Celine Dion sing?~~Apparently I missed that her song was meant as a tribute to Morricone, who likes her. Oh, well.
The producers tried their best to keep people from reading laundry lists of names, unfortunately, some of the winners didn't get that.
Pan's Labyrinth wins award after award... but doesn't get Foreign Language Film. Unusual. Then again, Germany wins. Yay!
Scorsese finally gets his Oscar, from his fellow we-got-big-in-the-'70s director friends Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg. Nice touch.
Hudson and Whitaker are among the few with emotional acceptance speeches.
The Departed for best movie, Mirren and Whitaker as leading actors are all no surprises. All in all, good show!