I used to get soooo excited about the Academy Awards. Like, make-sure-I’ve-seen-every-movie, camp on the couch flipping between Oscar Arrival broadcasts, predict the winners kind of excited. I would stalk the movies and the celebrities for weeks and once I even tried to throw an Oscar party complete with ballots and prizes, which, of course, was a bust.

Now that I’ve moved to Hollywood and right around the corner from the famous [URL=http://www.kodaktheatre.com/profile.htm]Kodak Theatre[/url], I have a whole new relationship with Oscar Sunday. Oscar Sunday now means major weekend traffic!

Hollywood just stops.

Here is my very paltry photo diary of Oscar Sunday as I now see it…

This is not to say that I did not watch them. Oh no! I sat and watched the whole 3 hours and 50 minutes worth and I must say that this was the worst Oscar Telecast I’ve ever seen. The speeches were not just a little, but a lot boring (with the two exceptions of Ari Sandel who won for his short film [URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438575/]West Bank Story[/url] and Forest Whitaker), the live performances were a little thrown together and the crowd seemed less than entertained. I did really like Ellen Degeneres, though.

And this year, I can’t even remember the dresses.