My daughter was watching a bit of the Academy Awards this evening, otherwise I would have missed it completely (and not have had a moment's worry over it...)

The show is basically unwatchable. Big star comes out, reads lame jokes from a teleprompter, announces winner of best catering, or some such vapid category for a statuette. Even worse, hardly anyone saw these movies. "No Country for Old Men" won best picture, but I didn't see it or Death Wish one through eight (OK, I saw Death Wish 1 and 2...). Do we just have to love it because its a Coen production?

I didn't see a single one of the winners and some, like "La Vie en Rose", I didn't even know existed unless I saw the Academy's outtakes before Marion Cotillard was annouced as the winner. Marion who? The local movie review website doesn't even have it listed. Small wonder--a 150 minute movie about French chanteuse Edith Piaf and her self-destructive life ended prematurely at age 47, isn't exactly box office mojo.

Another yawner.

Best Picture: "No Country for Old Men"

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"

Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"

Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"