I LOVE movies. I see at least one a week. I prefer to see two when I can. So I love the Academy Awards. I love the hosts' corny jokes, the montages, the award speeches, the dresses, the crazy moments you're not expecting -- all of it. I'm a fan. So even though my opinion doesn't amount to much, here it is anyway!

Highlights from the 78th Annual Academy Awards

1. George Clooney. The man is gorgeous, smart, funny, self-effacing and politically astute. I love him. And he looks delicious in a tuxedo. I think he set the bar for the evening with his acceptance speech. I would have loved to see George win for Director, but I thought his performance was really great and he was the pivotal character of the story. So I felt like he deserved the Oscar he got.

2. Jon Stewart was great as host. I loved the opening "dream" sequence and I thought his quips and off-the-cuff remarks were well timed and very funny. I loved it when he introduced the Wilson brothers as two talented brothers and added that that was an apt description of the Baldwin family! That was great!

3. Reese Witherspoon's acceptance speech was sweet, heartfelt, genuine, excited and really charming. And I thought she deserved the award too. Her singing in Walk the Line was wonderful and I really lost track of Reese Witherspoon while watching that movie -- she did a great job of becoming June Carter.

I was pretty happy with this Oscar show. I thought it was, overall, more classy and entertaining than many of the shows in the past. I was not a fan at all of last year's show (boring and lame).
The only thing I could have done without this year is all the damned skin-toned dresses the women were wearing! What was that all about?! And Naomi Watts' dress was hideous! It didn't just look like skin, it looked like peeling skin! Yuck!
I thought Michelle Williams looked beautiful in her golden/orangey thirties-inspired dress and hair. She was glamorous and understated at the same time. And I loved Jennifer Lopez's dress. But her makeup was weird looking. She's doing something lately with her eyes -- highlighting them above and below so that she looks like she has a mask on. And I would have given her bigger hair. But the dress was great!

I was happy that Crash won best picture. I saw all of the movies that were up for the award and of them all, even though I adore George Clooney and thought Good Night and Good Luck was great, Crash was so relevant and so evocative and timely. And it really stayed with me for a long time after I saw it-- it has a resonance that so many other films don't have these days. So I was happy it won. I thought the performances in Brokeback Mountain were good -- I thought Michelle Williams's role was the most poignant of them all. But I didn't think the movie had enough story. I kept thinking that these two guys had maybe had a half hour's worth of conversation and what is the big deal that is keeping them together all these years? There just wasn't enough there for me to believe that they were one another's great love.

The Ben Stiller thing was lame.

Tom Hanks's schpiel was cute and it was actually funnier if you knew that he had filmed an eight minute "how to" acceptance speech primer which was distributed by the Academy to all of the nominees.

Charlize Theron's dress was just goofy. I thought Jennifer Aniston looked pretty and elegant. I thought Jennifer Garner was going to slip and fall on her face! I liked the way she laughed at herself, saying, "I do my own stunts." That was cute.

So overall, I thought it was a good show.
And that's all I have to say about that.