And Proud We Are of All of Them

Oscar open-thread.  My quick thoughts:  Happy that Jeff Bridges won.  Happy that Hurt Locker dominated, especially with Bigelow's history-making win.  I'm glad the Academy learned from the travesty that was the Best Picture Oscar for Titanic (up against LA Confidential, Good Will Hunting, As Good As It Gets, and The Full Monty), and snubbed Avatar.

Anyway, floor is yours.

UPDATE:  Some military folk are griping about The Hurt Locker winning because, among other things, it glorifies a character who would normally be disciplined, rather than rewarded for his recklessness.  This strikes me as a truly bizarre criticism.  Ever since the history of the medium, there has been a great divide between what's on the screen and what's in real life.  I think we can all agree that law school was neither The Paper Chase nor Legally Blond.  Even sticking with the genre, I can watch A Few Good Men, The Hunt for Red October, Patton, etc. for ever, yet they all have very lengthy literary licenses with the subject matters they portray.  Unless we're talking about documentaries, there's little relevance of accuracy of subject-matter to the craft of film-making.  To go back several decades, the film The Grand Illusion portrays an almost romantic image of WWI--completely divorced from the reality of war.  But it is a cinematic masterpiece.   In short, I can appreciate the gripes about the accuracy of a subject-matter, but I think they are misplaced when directed against Kathryn Bigelow's and the rest of the cast and crew's achievement with the film.