Yesterday marked the 86th Academy Awards. I personally think this was one of the most entertaining and fun Oscars ceremony to date, mostly in thanks to Ellen hosting. Her humor is just so silly, and so simple, and it worked perfectly. I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of Ellen hosting the Academy Awards just yet. That selfie that broke Twitter? And Brad Pitt passing out paper plates so Ellen can hand out pizza? I'm not really sure how next year can top that.
Other favorite Oscar moments:
Pharrell Williams performing his Oscar-nominated song "Happy" from Despicable Me 2…
Lupita Nyong'o's sweet acceptance speech…
John Travolta awkwardly mispronouncing Idina Menzel's name…
The adorable and rhyming acceptance speech from the songwriters of Frozen…
And last but definitely not least, Matthew McConaughey's awesome acceptance of Best Actor.
Here at my house, we hosted an Oscars viewing party, and everyone brought food based on a 2013 movie. There was Irish popcorn for Philomena, guacamole for Despicable Me 2, mini powdered donuts for Frozen, and mini pancakes for World War Z, just to name a few. We also had Oscars ballots for predictions, and I came in with 16 out of 24 correct.
Last year I predicted 12 out of 24 correctly, so I'm only going up! And, in case you couldn't tell, I actually had correctly predicted Production Design and Sound Editing, but then second guessed myself and picked something else instead. Sigh.
All in all, the Oscars this year was actually really fun. Towards the end, the pacing stated to get pretty slow (they should not have put the Wizard of Oz tribute and the Bette Midler song so close together…way too slow), but overall it was really entertaining to watch. And now there's one more Best Picture winner for me to add to the Oscar Challenge...
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