Part of me prefers hand-drawn animation, and it is a pity it seems snubbed nowadays- with the exception of Pixar (and many occurrences with Dreamworks), CGI seems a little soulless.

I'm with you there! I'm dying for someone to make an animated movie that truly pays homage to the art of hand drawn animation. I don't mean this stuff were animators use computers to colour and perfect drawn animation either, I mean back to pencils, paints and animation cells. Animated pieces done like this had so much character to the point that you could almost tell who was animating what scene you are currently watching.

Well, if you have been watching, the Oscars are over for another year! Just to recap, this year's winners are:

BEST PICTURE:
The Hurt Locker

DIRECTING:
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) (now officially the first star to win both an Oscar and a Razzie)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Mo'Nique (Precious)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Precious (Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Hurt Locker (Written by Mark Boal)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Up (That sucks!)

ART DIRECTION:
Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg. Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Avatar (Mauro Fiore)

COSTUME DESIGN:
The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
The Cove

FILM EDITING:
The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)

MAKEUP:
Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow) (More than happy now, Cass? 8D)

ORIGINAL SCORE:
Up (Michael Giacchino) (This one surprised me. I was expecting Avatar to win, but I was hoping Sherlock Holmes would win)

ORIGINAL SONG:
Crazy Heart ("The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)

SOUND MIXING:
The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett)

SOUND EDITING:
The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson)

VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Music by Prudence

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Logorama (It's a shame Wallace & Gromit didn't win, but on the flip side, Logorama has gotten my interest)

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
The New Tenants

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Loved Matthew Broderick's tribute to John Hughes: 'Hey, Ferris... You having your day off?' 8D

I'll live with it. Truthfully, I think the Academy hates science fiction. :P

Personally glad Avatar didn't win. Since Hurt Locker won I get to say I worked for a company that made an oscar winning film.

That's definately the bright side for me. At least Avatar didn't become the new 'Titanic'! 8D

Finally, the Dude (Jeff Bridges) get's his due.

It also was great to see Micheal Giacchino get the win, IMO he is one of the best music men in Hollywood, I would certainly put him up there with the likes of John Williams, Bill Conti and James Horner. Up was one of his best scores to date, that song that played during the montage of Carl and Ellie's life together was one of the most touching things in the history of music.

Logorama was...special. 8D

I searched for it after watching the Oscars, and after watching it, I have to say it was... special! 8D

That one actually surprised me. I was hoping for Sherlock Holmes to get the win (Discombobulate is one of my favourite scores), and I was really hoping that Avatar wouldn't win! But yeah, I agree that it was great to see Michael Giacchino take the Oscar this year.