Divisions and Precisions

LOTR sweeps the Oscars. In other news: Geeks rule!

If Johnny Depp had won for Best Actor, it would've been a total geek sweep. I can live with the way it turned out. :)

Peter Jackson said a great thing while accepting the award for Best Picture: "I'm happy the Academy was able to look past the hobbits and the trolls and award a fantasy film--fantasy is an f-word that hopefully will get past the five second delay." (I'm paraphrasing from memory.)

I'm of two minds here--part of me is excited, hoping this might be a break of sorts for genre works in general, but part of me is terrified that this will result in a big pile of dreck as all sorts of bad filmmakers try to cash in on the fantasy craze. Maybe it'll be a combination of both.

Either way, this is the first Academy Awards I've watched where "my" movie did so spectacularly. I'm over the moon. :)