How do YOU spell unbelievable?

At the risk of this becoming an insanely long blog i will try to keep my ramblings to a minimum. I am going to start by saying, "jake, what the heck were you thinking?" Of the twelve ballots we received, you are the only one that DIDN'T pick Heath Ledger to win. Was that an accident? Ultimately it wouldn't have mattered because you still wouldn't have won. Hopefully this doesn't sound fixed but the winner of tonights contest was yours truly with 17 correct guesses. I have six witnesses that i didn't cheat either. So now we cut to the chase. Not only was this year the worst ever year for nominations it quickly became one of the worst awards ceremonies ever with the winners. Un-freaking-believable. That is the only made up word i can think of to describe the atrocity transmitting from my tv. If you watched the Academy Awards tonight, then you witnessed history. Why? Because you saw the two best performances in leading roles NOT win. Seriously, i still can't believe it. When Kate Winslet won i wasn't all that upset because i knew it was coming. Even though Angelina Jolie gave the best performance by a female this year, and probably the best female performance since Charlize Theron six years ago. Ridiculous. Kate Winslet won because she was in a holocaust movie, and because she had been nominated five times and never won so the academy decided it was her turn to win. That's the only freaking reason. But the most disgusting thing i have ever seen at the academy awards happened tonight. They actually gave Sean Penn best actor for 'Milk.' I can't even express how ridiculous that is to me. Sean Penn won because he was gay. He played a gay man in a gay movie, kissed a bunch of boys, and in light of what happened this year with proposition 8 the academy felt like they owed the gay community something. Like they had to prove that they would reward a gay movie. I actually brought this up to Jesse the other day and thought of changing my pick for this exact reason, but i didn't really believe the academy would do it. All they proved with this is that a man (Mickey Rourke) can pour his heart and soul into a role and give it everything he has, and expose himself to the entire world and show what a broken piece of meat he really is, and he will lose to anybody who is gay. When watching the wrestler, you are not watching Mickey Rourke, you are watching Randy "The Ram" Robinson. It almost feels like a documentary. It is absolutely heartbreaking and breath taking. Absolutely beautiful performance that took every ounce of him. Watching a man face his real life demons on screen is not easy, and neither was his performance but it was perfectly executed. Not to say Sean Penn didn't do a good job, because he did. But seriously, it isn't really that close as to who should have won. I can't find a flaw in Mickey's performance, but Sean Penn's gay accent is wavering and slightly inconsistant throughout the movie, with it being much stronger at certain times than at others. This award is disgusting. I have a whole tangent on Sean Penn's award wins that i won't go into here but it will eventually land on my movie blog.
And finally Slumdog Millionaire. This is definitely one of the worst best picture winners in the last twenty five years. Easy. Not because the quality of the movie isn't good, because it is. But because of the superior quality of the movies that didn't win. There were much better movies this year that didn't win and didn't even get nominated. Like i previously stated in another blog, i think the academy just got caught up in the little movie that could story, and didn't really pay attention to more beautiful films that were better executed and more subtle. Good movie no doubt, but best picture? You have got to be kidding me. Oh, and to Dustin Lance Black (the writer of Milk, who used to be LDS by the way) get off your damn high horse and sit down. Don't get up there and preach to me how my church devalues people because they are gay. This isn't an a.m. talk radio show so i don't care about your politics. Sounds to me like if you thought people in the church were devaluing you, then those are insecurities you were carrying around. Don't put that off onto other people. Yes, people can be gay in their own homes if they want to but don't you dare try to make me accept that lifestyle. I don't hate gay people, I don't even have any harsh feelings toward them at all, but just because i think a boy touching another boy's wee wee is disgusting doesn't make me hateful, and oppressor, or a bigot.
Also just letting you all know that this will be one of the last movie posts i post like this on this blog because in the future they will all go on my movie blog and the blog that i now share with chris. So for those of you that don't necessarily enjoy reading all my egomanical commentary on movies, you won't be subject to it that much longer. It may be sad or pathetic or whatever you want to call it, but i am very upset so i am going to bed. Thanks for all your obvious biases Academy. How about next year we actually reward the best movies and performances? What do you say?