It must be a Christmas Miracle. I was just about to start the previous blog entry, featuring most of the 2004 Oscars, when I did a bit more rooting around in the spare bedroom, mostly for undiscovered hard drives for future blogs, but I did unearth a small handful of DVDs, and one of them happens to be the remainder of the 2004 Oscars ceremony. And as a special Christmas treat, because you've all been so good this year, you get an extra blog entry today.
You'd think, having got to Best Director and Best Actress, that the show would practically be over, but there's about 35 minutes on this recording, although it does start with the last award we saw previously, for Best Actress.
So the next award, for Best Actor, is presented by Nicole Kidman.
The winner is Sean Penn for Mystic River. It's a popular win, and he gets a standing ovation. He manages to get a dig in at the Iraq War. "Thank you. If there's one thing that actors know, other than that, there weren't any WMD's, It's that there is no such thing as best in acting,"
It's the big one now, and to present the Best Picture award, it's Steven Spielberg.
"It's a clean sweep" announces Spielberg as the inevitable winner, notching up 11 wins from 11 nominations, is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Frankly, it's well deserved, as that trilogy was a magnificent achievement, and these awards are as much for the whole thing as for the final film. I do love that Jackson makes a mention of his earliest films, Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles, "wisely overlooked by the Academy."
Incidentally, there's a load more videos of the ceremony in the playlist for that video.
Here's all of the BBC links, which are a lot of fun, and there's a good running gag featuring a Rob Brydon impression.
BBC Genome: BBC One - 29th February 2004 - 00:50
As if that's not enough extra treats for Christmas afternoon, this disc also has the first part of the 2004 Bafta awards.
It's hosted by Stephen Fry, who's on top form tonight. He even manages to get three minutes of material out of the use of the colon in film titles. You've got to admire the commitment to punctuation.
The first award of the night is presented by Patrick Stewart and Naomi Watts.
It's the Alexander Korda award for Outstanding British Film of the year. The winner is Touching the Void.
The director, Kevin Macdonald, had bet his agent £50 that he wouldn't win.
Scarlett Johansson presents the award for Best Supporting Actor.
Rather delightfully (and appropriately for Christmas) it's won by Bill Nighy for Love Actually.
Renee Zellweger presents the award for Best Foreign Language Film
It's won by a British film, which seems rather parochially, although it is in a foreign language. In This World.
LL Cool J presents the award for Best Film Music.
It's won by Gabriel Yared and T-Bone Burnett for Cold Mountain and accepted by the film's director Anthony Minghella.
Emma Thompson presents the Michael Balcon award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema.
It's awarded to Working Title.
Jason Isaacs and Joely Richardson present the award for Conematography.
First win of the night for The Return of the King and for Andrew Lesnie, who wasn't even nominated at the Oscars. And who should really be called Andrew Lensie, am I right?
Andy Serkis presents the Carl Foreman award for a first-time filmmaker.
It's won by Emily Young for Kiss of Life.
Holly Hunter presents the award for Production Design
It's won by William Sandell for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, but since he's not there to accept it, a producer does so on his behalf, and then proceeds to forget the name of the film's art director for an agonisingly long moment.
The Chairman of Orange introduces the Orange Film of the Year award.
It's presented by Alicia Silverstone (the 'delectable' Alicia Silverstone as he puts it).
And it's won, somewhat inevitably, by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
And that's the last award in this half of the show. This time I really do have no idea if I have the rest of in anywhere, so the rest of the show will remain a mystery, but it was lovely to find this as an extra treat.
BBC Genome: BBC One London - 15th February 2004 - 21:00
Here's the TiVo details.
After this, there's trailers for Sea of Souls and Bella and the Boys.
Then the TiVo recording stops, and when the menu times out, there's a bit of programming from Paramount Comedy. There's the end of an episode of Roseanne. A trailer for Sex and the City.
Then a weird short cartoon, The Cloth, whose premise seems to be 'what if priests, but they were like New York cops'. The credits say it was 'Performed by The Hollow Men' but that leaves me none the wiser.
Then the recording stops shortly into an episode of Rhoda, a show I wouldn't have minded seeing again.
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