


Ever the risk-taker, the presenter tops off her slim crimson silk crepe Balenciaga column dress with an oversized bow and a custom L'Wren Scott diamond bracelet. Gosto? Não gosto? Do cabelo de lado não gosto mesmo. Do vestido... Gosto. Ms. Kidman é elegantérrima mas lá está, falta-lhe sal...
Putting aside her riskier fashion choices, the Best Supporting Actress nominee goes for old Hollywood glamour in a black sequined fishtail gown with Chanel Haute Couture and Chanel jewels. Nada de especial. Se eu fosse Japonesa vestiria sem dúvidas Miyake ou Kenzo.
The 79th Academy Awards ended with a bang; the whimpers came from Oscar-pool players watching a number of favorites get taken down during the long ceremony — Alan Arkin standing in the Sunshine instead of Eddie Murphy; the penguins of Happy Feet kicking the tires off Pixar's Cars; Melissa Etheridge's ''I Need to Wake Up'' putting three nominated songs from Dreamgirls to sleep. Smart-money favorites came through at the end with wins for Helen Mirren (The Queen), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), and — finally! — Martin Scorsese (The Departed). Then, the unpredictability returned with a mild surprise in a Best Picture race that had no clear-cut front-runner, as the Academy pulled the trigger once again for Scorsese's violent Boston gangster/cop tale, which led the night with four total awards. Other multiple winners included Pan's Labyrinth with three, and Little Miss Sunshine, Dreamgirls, and An Inconvenient Truth, each with two.
Best Picture - The Departed
Best Director - Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor - Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress - Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay - The Departed
Best Animated Film - Happy Feet
Best Foreign Language Film - The Lives of Others, Germany
Best Documentary Feature - An Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Song - ''I Need to Wake Up,'' from An Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Score - Babel
Best Cinematography - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Film Editing - The Departed
Best Art Direction - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Makeup - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Costume Design - Marie Antoinette
Best Sound Editing - Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Sound Mixing - Dreamgirls
Best Visual Effects - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Best Short, Animated - The Danish Poet
Best Short, Live Action - West Bank Story
Best Documentary Short - The Blood of Yingzhou District
In her first stint as Oscar host, Ellen DeGeneres drew mixed reactions from critics, ranging from equivocal thumbs up to disappointed thumbs down – though most of the real complaints were aimed at the ceremony's seat-challenging, four-hour length. Here's a sampling of what the nation's reviewers had to say:
• "You know it's going to be a long night when Al Gore's the funniest person in the room. ... Ellen DeGeneres's lowest-key performance made for a slow, slow show." – Bill Goodykoontz, the Arizona Republic
• "[Ellen] was cheeky but good-natured, far less barbed and sardonic than Jon Stewart last year or Chris Rock in 2005. ... As she sometimes does on her daytime talk show, Ms. DeGeneres cruised the aisle with a microphone, chatting idly with Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood – bringing a casual Friday mood to Fancy Sunday."– Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times
• "Aspects of the show didn't translate well to TV, from a dance troupe reenacting nominees against a screen to a tedious bit featuring a 'sound-effects choir,' which fell as flat as the gospel choir that punctuated DeGeneres's opening."– Brian Lowry, Variety
• "Ellen DeGeneres was a fine host. ... With ease and charm, DeGeneres transferred her talk-show act to the Oscars. Her monologue reflected her refreshing, unpretentious style."– Hal Boedeker, the Orlando Sentinel
• "In an ABC telecast that will likely be remembered as the dullest, most bloated Academy Awards ever, [Ellen] offered no edgy insults of nominees and almost no political commentary (for a change). ... At the risk of sounding smug, I have to say I could have written a better monologue."– Adam Buckman, the New York Post
• "[Ellen did] a crisp and unpretentious job in her first gig as an Oscar host. ... [But] virtually everything about the Oscarcast, except for a few mercifully brief features, was entirely, punishingly too long." – Tom Shales, The Washington Post
Still, ratings for the show were up slightly – 2 percent – over last year's Oscars, according to Nielsen Media Research. Last year, 38.8 million viewers watched the ceremony, only the second time in the past two decades that the audience fell below 40 million, the Associated Press reports.
Pois eu achei que a Ellen esteve muito bem. Com muita piada. Conseguiu dar conta do recado.