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He also talked to us about the webby awards. The webby awards are like the Academy awards except they are for computers. He had us go there and look at some sites and evaluate them! This was really fun and interestiing because there were alot of really different and fun sites! If you would like to check our these site and learn more about the webby awards Click Here!

The Da Vinci Code was boring. I was yawning all night, waiting for the appearance of the great Sir Ian McKellen. As soon as he was out of the screen, it was yawnfest all over again. It’s not because I’ve read the book and know how the story progresses (and ends). Truthfully, I thought the book itself was forgettable. I only kept it with me to cross reference it with the more intriguing Holy Blood, Holy Grail. I especially found the Sophie-is-Jesus’-descendant plotline cheesy.

I haven't seen the film yet, though I was moved by Ang Lee's Best Director acceptance speech at the Oscars. And Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is one of my favourite books, so I have no comment on Brokeback Mountain's appropriateness as a teaching tool.

Loren Carpenter, Senior Scientist at Pixar Studios, will talk about his Academy Award winning work in creating new technology that has enabled Pixar productions to be so fantastical, yet believable. Loren will also be talking about his work on the jaw-dropping 21st Century Zoetrope, one of the main features of the Pixar: 20 Years of Animation exhibition.

The celebrity era is finally coming to a sad, liposucked end, according to Anderson, who notes that fewer Americans watched the Oscars and Grammys this year, and that the major fan mags are hurting.

Last night I watched the free screener the producer’s of Crash sent to all members of the Screen Actor’s Guild. I finally got to see if it was better than Brokeback Mountain which was its main competition for the Academy Award as Best Picture. Well I think the voters of the academy made a mistake. Crash for me was a 1 layer movie. Every character gets a chance to show his or her prejudice. It was so obvious; I found it laughable at times. I think some of the performances where great, but I felt like I was watching some sort of instructional film on the dangers of prejudice.

Everyone wants to win an Oscar. But remember, winning an Oscar does not mean your film is any good (Titanic) or that it will help your career (Halle Berry). So, for Moviedrome #4, here are two seminal films that were snubbed for the Oscar, despite being much better than the films that won (in parentheses):

In other news, I did not watch the Oscars, but I do have an Oscars-related anecdote. I saw a poster the other day for a showing of the movie Croupier (which is a pretty cool movie, by the way) and this was the advertising blurb they had printed under the title: “It was almost nominated for an Academy Award!” Is it me, or this a crazy and meaningless claim? How can they know for sure? Couldn’t any film say something similar? “Come see Wedding Crashers – Vince Vaughn’s name was at one point mentioned for Best Actor!”

George Clooney’s Oscar speech also created a stir at America’s Shittiest Website™ a/k/a “The Corner,”where JPod and his doughy albino playmate Iain Murray are busy adducing examples of how Hollywood hasn’t been so nice to black folks. Never mind National Review’s own racist history. And never mind that no black people are allowed to play with the white kids at the Korner. For JPod and Murray to call Hollywood racist is rather like the super-sized JPod calling Michael Moore fat (which, in fact, he just did in this post). These people have no shame.

not a fan of the oscars? go check out their “award archnemesis” the razzies. Nominees for worst picture include “the dukes of hazzard” (which I slept through on dvd, even) and the classy “deuce bigalow: european gigolo”, and there’s an epic showdown in the worst actress category between the esteemed tara reid and jenny mccarthy. winners announced 7:30 pst tonight!