Our mothers have always cautioned us about tooting our horns, but we never listened. So today, the day after the biggest night in motion pictures, The 82nd Academy Awards, as the stars themselves are undoubtedly waking up with a monster hangover or just heading to bed, we say "told ya so" about the movies we ZONINO!ed long long ago. We're all winners on Oscar night!
Precious - We actually first profiled this film about an abused girl from Harlem just trying to find someone that actually loves her back in May of 2009 ...when we saw the preview! It made our Year In Review Top 5 List as well. The movie was up for several awards last night but walked away with a huge and deserved win for Mo'Nique in the Best Supporting Actress category.
The Hurt Locker - Back in September we told you about this film centered around the dangerous lives of the soldiers involved with deactivating bombs. The story told about those in the military bomb disposal team is both timely and touching, as well as Oscar gold. The film took several technical and writing categories as well as bringing in the big prizes of Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow (the first for a woman) and Best Picture.
Avatar - The ground-breaking film - both technologically and financially at the box office - about the conflict between humans and natives on a new planet, which was featured here in January, might not have taken home any of the big prizes, but it still coveted its share of statuettes. It was not a good year to be another movie in any of the technical categories this year as James Cameron's epic won Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects.
Also nominated but,unfortunately, leaving empty handed last night were ZONINO!ed performances by Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman for Invictus and the Science Fiction film about alien apartheid, District 9. If you haven't seen any of these films yet, you need to put them on your list immediately!
Sergio del Limónar
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