The fucking Academy. . .

OK. So, the Oscars have come and gone. And, the one thing that I said would make me livid pissed happened.

What happened? Cate Blanchett didn't take home a well-deserved Oscar this evening. It was criminal. Instead, the oddball freak Tilda Swinton took it for her role as a bitch lawyer in Michael Clayton. I must first comment on the role that Ms Swinton played. The role was incredibly two dimensional, if not incredibly stereotypical. She provided nothing extra to the bitch lawyer role, and she clearly cannot master an American accent - (in fact, before the film even started, I asked my mother, who had watched it before me, if Ms Swinton had used an American accent or a British accent, to which she promptly and confidently responded, "British"). Not only is Ms Swinton not good, her role wasn't even challenging. Ms Blanchett, on the other hand (and I comment for the Supporting category; Although Ms Blanchett was spectacular - again - in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, I won't deny Ms Cotillard's talents that earned her her Oscar), is given probably the most complex role this year, (perhaps with the exception of Daniel Day-Lewis's Plainview in There Will Be Blood), and she nails it dead on. She has everything down - the talk, the vibes, the personality. Everything about her screams BOB DYLAN in I'm Not There. Cate Blanchett is one of the most versatile actresses in the industry. Throw any role her way - Katherine Hepburn, Sheba Hart, Elizabeth Tudor, and even BOB DYLAN, and she can make every aspect of it real, alive, and totally three dimensional. That she wasn't awarded her Oscar this evening was a crime, and what was a bigger crime was that it wasn't even a decent acting job that beat her - although I may have been unhappy had anyone beat her, at least Amy Ryan, Ruby Dee, and Saorise Ronan did fantastic jobs in their roles. Basically, Academy, Y'ALL SUCK. This is worse than The Departed winning Best Picture. Worse than Marcia Gay Harden defeating Kate Hudson. Worse than Paul Giamatti being overlooked for Sideways. Almost as heinous as putting Catherine Zeta Jones in the SUPPORTING ACTRESS category, rather than the lead for her role in Chicago. This is a new low for the Academy, and they should be completely ashamed of themselves.

That's all. l8rs.