{"id":15116,"date":"2003-03-24T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/75th-academy-awards\/"},"modified":"2003-03-24T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T12:11:00","slug":"75th-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/75th-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"75th Academy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"55\" height=\"90\" src=\"smallpics\/oscar.gif\" align=\"right\" alt=\"75th Oscars\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For those of you who didn&rsquo;t stay up to watch all of the Oscars or who just couldn&rsquo;t watch every minute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/oscarnight\/winners.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&rsquo;s a recap of last night&rsquo;s winners<\/a>.  I watched most of the ceremony, although I had to take an hour off to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/sixfeetunder\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Six Feet Under<\/i><\/a>.  I&rsquo;m glad I got to see Adrien Brody&rsquo;s acceptance speech, which was the most surprising and moving I&rsquo;d seen in a long time.  Roman Polanski winning best director for <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0253474\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Pianist<\/i><\/a>, the film for which Adrien Brody won his Oscar, was also quite a surprise.  I really want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0268126\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Adaptation<\/i><\/a>; Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep were nominated for their roles, and Chris Cooper won for Best Supporting Actor, supplying another moving acceptance speech.  Finally, although I don&rsquo;t necessarily with agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/afp\/20030324\/en_afp\/oscar_war_iraq_moore_1\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Moore, who got booed off the stage when he protested the war<\/a> (although I agree with his assessment of the last election), I still admire him as a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Moore,+Michael+(II)\" target=\"_blank\">filmmaker<\/a> and as someone who had the balls to say what he felt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/page2\/s\/simmons\/030324.html\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&rsquo;s Page2 has a damn funny recap<\/a> of the entire ceremony that I just now read.  Take a look&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200036082?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who didn&rsquo;t stay up to watch all of the Oscars or who just couldn&rsquo;t watch every minute, here&rsquo;s a recap of last night&rsquo;s winners. I watched most of the ceremony, although I had to take an hour off to watch Six Feet Under. I&rsquo;m glad I got to see Adrien Brody&rsquo;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/75th-academy-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;75th Academy Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}