are the winds of change blowing through the Oscars?

I was SO HAPPY to see Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova's "Falling Slowly" win Best Original Song from the movie Once. That was my absolute favorite movie of 2007. Besides, The Disney Machine didn't deserve an Oscar for any of those 3 cheesy songs from their cheesy movie.

Yeah, the "Happy Working Song" was a great, great gimmick song. But I'm still glad "Falling Slowly" won. It was sweet to see Glen Hansard tear up during that performance. He's come a long way!

The performance of "Happy Working Song" during the Oscars desperately needed some CGI rats and cockroaches though.

A Phil Collins/Disney Machine song beat out South Park's "Blame Canada" 8 years ago. To me, that was unforgivable. ;)

Fortunately, the Academy voters got the Best Song right this time. "Falling Slowly" is a beautiful song & that 4-minute scene in the movie is so very powerful.

I still wonder why Enchanted got 3 nominations while Into The Wild & Hairspray got none...

Yeah why wasnt there any room for Eddie Vedder's complete soundtrack for into the wild. I didn't see into the wild, but the theater i went to would play "Society" on the feature presentation screen. And that to me was the song that should of won. I love that song . "There's those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you're keeping score?

Vedder's soundtrack was disqualified--after the votes had been cast, if memory serves--because of some obscure technical ruling, possibly because "too much of it" had appeared elsewhere. It was considered a shoo-in for Best Song and Best Score before that, I believe.

Jonny Greenwood's music from "There Will Be Blood" received similar treatment.

Overall, I'm with MA. A lot of very good choices some richly deserving winners and only a few points where I felt genuinely disappointed by the results. Maybe a little more love for TWBB, but considering it largely lost out to the also-great "No Country," I can't complain too loudly.

Plus Tilda Swinton mocked Clooney's Bat-nipples in her acceptance speech. how cool is THAT?

Certainly, it was a teasing, affectionate mock. And Clooney did it himself during his acceptance speech a few years ago, so fair play all around. But to take your moment to do something fun and a little naughty like that just rocks the house.

Of course that it would be cool !
Let's hope for the best.

It greatly helps an Oscar acceptance speech if it is funny and/or overly self-deprecating. Serious speeches are boring. Thanking your agent is boring. Brad Bird's "conversation" between himself and his junior high counselor was classic. Tilda Swinton joking about Clooney still wearing the Batsuit was hilarious. I'd love it if someone won an Oscar and used their time on stage to tell a really funny joke or did something else to demonstrate that while we take entertainment really seriously, in the end it's all meant to be fun and if you can get paid for doing it, bonus to you.

Personally, if I ever found myself in a position where I was nominated for an Oscar, I'd put a page up on my web site with all of my "thanks" and then tell everyone the address (on TV) if I won. Then I'd know I didn't forget anyone, and I wouldn't have to worry about screwing up on stage.