Interesting Oscars telecast, with EW and Defamer both having decent blow-by-blow blogs.

Jon Stewart was pretty sharp as a host and did a good job of reacting to the events of the show without overdoing it. However, it never seemed like the crowd warmed up to him -- it's like they wanted to laugh at some of his jokes but were afraid they'd be painted in a bad light either by "the public" or by his show later on.

As for other awards, since I only saw a couple of the films nominated for the top honors, it was more figuring out if I picked the winners right. I did a good job of predicting Memoirs of a Geisha for the "pretty" awards, but flipping the cinematography and original score awards with Brokeback Mountain. Speaking of the pudding movie, I guess I don't have to run out and watch it since it lost Best Picture (kind of how I felt about The Aviator last year).

But what does it say that I've seen exactly one Oscar-winning performance -- Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line? Although if Good Night and Good Luck had won anything, that would've made it at least two. And would've made Mark Cuban an Oscar winner, which would've been strange.

One final observation: Chicken Little actually came out to present an award, even though the movie itself was not nominated for Best Animated Feature, despite being just three nominees. Was it really that bad?