Good/Not Good

The Emmy Awards were last night. This is what I am deeming good and not good about the ceremony and award winners.

GOOD:

This was amazing!
Alec Baldwin won and that is good.

30 Rock wins Best Comedy and Mad Men wins Best Drama and that's the way it should be.

While I thought some of his material sucked and fell flat, Neil Patrick Harris was a great host and I do love the return of this Fred Astaire song and dance man as award show host.

I loved that Ben finally won an Emmy because he is one of the best villains on TV. I also love that he is married to Arlene from True Blood.


NOT GOOD:

I am a musical theatre fag, but I can't stand Kristin Chenoweth. I'm sorry but Ms. Chenoweth is 41 years old and is it just or does she permanently behave like she is a Sesame Street character. And you have the nerve to steal an Emmy from Kristen Wiig. NOT GOOD!
"Emmy Award Winner Jon Cryer." This is wrong in so many ways.

This person's issues with inhaling were not good.

Tina Fey wins an Emmy for playing Sarah Palin but loses Best Actress in a Comedy Series. I love Toni Collette, but this is Liz Lemon we are talking about.

This dress was not good.

Overall these Emmy Awards were fine. They could have been a lot worse. I think I might not predict winners for the Emmys. I never do well and there seems to be no real rhyme or reason in who wins. Mayhaps next year I'll just draw names out of a hat.

Bring on the Oscars!

Emmy Award Predictions

I hate the above picture more than I can even explain!

I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought the Emmys were next weekend. I need to stop drinking.

The Emmys are apparently on Sunday. I feel ashamed because I am not upholding the tube part of this blog as well as I should. So here's my sorry ass attempt to be a better blogger.

I always find predicting Emmys particularly difficult because I really don't understand why Emmy voters vote the way they do. I.E. Doris Roberts 4 Emmys for Everybody Loves Raymond (see disgusting photo above). Kim Cattrall 0 Emmys for Sex in the City. That makey no sensey to me!

There are some categories that I am really just taking a stab in the dark at, but here goes:

Best Drama
It will be nice to see the best drama on TV win the award for the best drama on TV.

Best ComedyAgain, it will be nice to see the best comedy on TV win the award for the best comedy on TV.

Best Actor- Drama
I just have a hunch that he will win because he never has and Emmy voters seem to really like him. And he is kind of the show.

Best Actor- ComedyAfter watching Baldwin's Generalissimo episode yesterday, I can't predict anyone else for the win. It just feels wrong to do so. However, I have a strong feeling I will Jim Parsons the day I predicted Baldwin.

Best Actress- DramaEasy. Fingers crossed for a Elisabeth Moss shocker! (wait that sounds dirty)

Best Actress- ComedyNow I love Muriel Heslop to death, but Liz Lemon is a goddess.

Best Supporting Actor- Drama
I have no clue. But I'll say Aaron Paul.

Best Supporting Actor - ComedyHe's hosting and it would be awkward if he didn't win. Come on Emmy Voters don't Jenna Elfman him!

Best Supporting Actress - DramaAgain I have no clue. But I'll say Wiest because she won last year.

Best Supporting Actress- ComedyI want to predict Wiig or Krakowski. SIGH!

I am not getting into other categories because it cuts into my drinking time. I expect maybe half of these to be correct. Only time will tell...

And it begins: First Oscar predictions of 2009

TIFF is here. That makes me happy because it means that Oscar season is officially upon us.

TIFF means that summer is officially over, but it means critic awards and the actuality of "Oscar nominee Mo'Nique" are almost upon us.

I figured since we are now half way through TIFF and I have been an incredibly lazy blogger, I would now start my first official Oscar predictions of the season.

It'll be incredibly fun to see which ones of these will fall completely off the wayside and who will enter the derby at a later date.

So here goes.

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker
UP
Nine
Precious
Up in the Air
A Serious Man
Invictus
The Lovely Bones
An Education
A Single Man

Best Director

Rob Marshall for Nine
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
Clint Eastwood for Invictus
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Lee Daniels for Precious

Best Actor

Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Daniel Day Lewis for Nine
George Clooney for Up in the Air
Matt Damon for The Informant
Colin Firth for A Single Man

Best Actress

Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Saoirse Ronan for The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious
Abby Cornish for Bright Star

Best Supporting Actor

Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
Matt Damon for Invictus
Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds
Alfred Molina for An Education
Richard King for A Serious Man

Best Supporting Actress

Julianne Moore for A Single Man
Penelope Cruz for Nine
Marion Cotillard for Nine
Mo'Nique for Precious
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air

So these are incredibly early picks and they've also made me realize that this year definitely doesn't pack the power and punch of the past couple of years. Hopefully a couple of wildcards like A Single Man, Get Low, and Everything's Fine will mix things up. And who the f knows about Malick's The Tree of Life. With Shutter Island moving to 2010, it's looking like a kind of dull Oscar race and I am starting to consider the idea of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique as a real possibility.