We have seen Oscar like this.

Suck on it James Cameron. For the first time we have woman director taking home the Oscar. Katherine Biglow rightfully took down her raging ass hole ex husband and made Academy Award history. Though the award show failed to surprise anyone, it made important award history and leaves me with hope for the integrity of future shows to come.

Honestly, the only surprising moment of the show for me was Best Foreign Language film. What has been a season of The White Ribbon vs. A Prophet, reenacting the show off of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. However, an unknown film, The Secret in their Eyes. The Argentinian film crept up on the typical European big wigs to shock the hell out of me (and none of my viewing companions). It's inevitable that I'm upset with Avatar's win in any category outside of Visual Effects, but I suppose I can accept their meager three wins. It is a shame that the Academy failed to recognize the elegant and eerie cinematography of The White Ribbon, or the highly stylized and raw work of Bruno Delbonnel for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Well it's all over now and I can only hope that in the future we see the return to five Best Feature Films (because I believe that this year was enough proof to show the lack of talent out there) and for expansive recognition of technical categories (which we saw hope for in their attempts to distinguish the differences between sound mixing and editing). It was moderately comedic when we spent three hours ragging on Avatar and pleasant when we paid homage to Best Score over the typical fan fair of Best Song. But overall, it wasn't one for memory. Let's hope its just an off year.

Adieu 2009, you were mediocre.