81st Oscars reactions; balls are kept

So OK, who here didn't have a f-king clue that Slumdog Millionaire would win? Seriously, it won probably every single nomination it was given (Sound Editing is the only category it didn't win in), the movie's awesome as hell...

...and I get to keep my balls to myself.

Anyway, here's a full list of the winners if you didn't watch the ceremony. Starting from the all-important Best Picture, down to the more technical side of things.

Best Picture Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Sean Penn (This was unexpected. I was rooting for Frank!)

Best Actress: Kate Winslet (Duh!)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (Another duh!)

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (The Academy still loves some spice; her performance was sizzling.)

Best Director: Danny Boyle (Foreshadowing of Best Picture winner FTW)

Best Animated Film: Wall-E (I'm sick of saying "Duh!", but Pixar is the best)

Best Documentary: Man on Wire 

Best Foreign Film: Departures (Forgive me for laughing at the acceptance speech; I'm so sorry)

Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire

Original Screenplay: Milk

Best Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire (Truly exotic treat for the ears)

Best Original Song: Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire (The competitors: another Slumdog Millionaire song and Wall-E's credits song)

Best Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (This was a given.)

Best Editing: Slumdog Millionaire (The editing helps mesh the mishmash of genres together very, very well)

Best Sound Editing: The Dark Knight (Well, The Dark Knight had to win some other category, right?)

Best Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire (Again, a treat for the senses.)

Best Special Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ah-mazing.)

Movies Opening This Week (Week 3)

*This post was a bit overdue. I had this on reserve for a long time.
Last week, there was nothing interesting in the theatrical canon. Now, there are pretty much a few.

Australia
Baz Luhrmann makes a comeback in the star-studded romance Australia. It's the story of an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a farm and makes a reluctant pact with a cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to protect it from a takeover. The twist in this romance is that it's set near World War II, thus chaos ensues and they even get to witness a bombing.




Milk
When we're talking about Sean Penn, we usually talk about Academy-Award nominated performances and a unique movie. So who is he playing in this movie? Well, he's playing Harvey Milk- the first ever openly gay person ever elected into office in America (and where else but in San Francisco?). If it wasn't obvious, it's a biopic. And he gets to kiss James Franco... errr, not exactly my idea of a good time in the movies, but whatever.

Anyway, it talks about how Milk got into office, and got shot the same year.