Oscars Highlights

                                    

So I know this post is a bit late but I wanted to cover it! The 86th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles on March 2nd 2014. It was one of my favourite award shows to watch so far this year which I think is mainly because of Ellen DeGeneres hosting and actually knowing what half the movies up for nominations were about. Ellen really did make it an unforgettable show and absolutely hilarious. It is the most watched Academy Awards since 2000 with an audience of over 44 million viewers?!

First off, Ellen DeGeneres. She was an absolutely amazing host and made the usually unexciting award show hilarious and enjoyable. From bringing an unexpected pizza guy onto the stage to hand out food to some of the biggest celebrities in the world today to beating twitters record for most retweeted tweet, she did an incredible job! She made fun of celebrities sitting right in front of her but wasn't that offensive of off putting. She really did a fantastic job and deserves to receive ongoing recognition for her hosting skills not only on The Oscars but her own chat show.

 

 



The movies nominated were all incredibly good but my personal favourite would have to be "Dallas Buyers Club". I think it's the only movie nominated that I've watched but the others looked interesting. I was drawn to "Dallas Buyers Club" because of the cast that featured Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner who I've seen in other movies and thought they were incredible. "Dallas Buyers Club" won awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor which were well deserved as the roles that Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto filled were difficult to play but they did a flawless job. I got this short summary of the plot from Wikipedia to describe the film in more detail -

 

"Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film. Matthew McConaughey stars as the real-life AIDS patient Ron Woodroof, who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas when he found them effective at improving his symptoms, distributing them to fellow sufferers by establishing the "Dallas Buyers Club" while facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."



The final thing I want to talk about is the Red Carpet! I don't know why but I absolutely obsess over spending two hours watching celebrities walk down a Red Carpet in suits and expensive dresses and talk absolute rubbish with interviewers. Many celebs find Red Carpets nerve-wracking and I find some form of comfort in seeing they are actual real people with actual emotions no matter how famous they are or how much their clothes cost or who they're wearing.

Jared Leto

Jennifer Lawrence

Emma Watson

Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Roberts were some of my favourites from the Red Carpet this year. Jared walked the carpet with his mother and brother, Jennifer with her actor boyfriend Nicholas Hoult and Emma Watson, who was making her Oscars debut, walked the carpet herself.