And the winner is....

Not anyone who actually likes a good movie. Now that the Oscars have awarded I felt a response was necessary. Some of the choices were good, but some of them flat out sucked.
The GOOD:
1)Forrest Whitaker winning best male lead. HE does an unbelievable job portraying this incredibly charming well spoken dictator that is responsible for the death of thousands, yet you have a hard time hating him like you should.
2) Helen Mirren for the Queen. I haven't seen this movie because I really don't care for movies about the royal family, they bore me. My friends will tell you I hate the British and thats why I doidn't see this movie and why I brush my teeth 12 times a day. However, she does a fabulous job playing the Queen during this time period. People who have seen it that I trust their opinion say it is a good film. All the previews I ahve seen it looks like she is doing a great job. Also Helen Mirren got fully into character while filming. She watched the real queen on television on file footage and acted just like her the entire time while filming.
3) Eddie Murphy did not win Best Supporting Actor. Eddie Murphy is a joke of an actor, and not in a good way. Here is a quick list of some of the "Gems" he has been in: Norbit, Daddy Day Care, Nutty Professor I and II, Dr. Doolittle I and II, Adventures of Pluto NAsh, the PJs, Bowfinger, Holy Man, Metro, (if you saw any of those kill yourself) and from 2004 until 2006 he was unable to make any movies.
THE BAD:
1) Best original screen play for Little Miss Sunshine. First off the guy who wrote the movie has his claim to fame as being Matthew Broderick's personal assistant. He said he took a big risk for quiting his job as his assistant to write this movie. Om my GOd!! What if the movie didn't make it, how would he ever get such a good job as making coffee for matthew broderick. Thats like a normal person quitting his job of digging graves at a cemetery to become the guy who engraves the tombs. Secondly, it is a nice movie but the greatest piece of written work this year. Babel's story is much more compelling and well written as a whole, so was Blood Diamond.
2) Jennifer Hudson for best supporting actor. I will never see this movie because A) Eddie Murphy is a joke of an actor (see above) B) I find movie like this poorly written and elaborated to make various individuals who watch it feel better about themselves being watching more "diverse" movies. Watching a movie with majority of minority actors does not make you diverse.

The UGLY:
1) Alan Arkin as best supporting actor. First he should not have won because he was in just over half of the movie. He was not the best character or actor in the movie. Steve Carrell's character is what makes the movie work. He is the one with the funniest lines, the most thought-provoking quotes and actually moves the plot of the story along. Arkin's character is neither the protagonist or the antagonist of the story. How can a character be important if he is neither the character that is the hero and makes a change in himself nor is the character that brings about the change. His character is basically a laughing joke of "oh I'm old and I like porn and drugs. Laugh at me." Ha Ha! Secondly Djimon Honsou should have won in a landslide. His acting in Blood Diamond is unbelievable. IN one scene he watches his town destroyed, his children captured, in one scene he finds his wife but is stopped by a fence between them while he cries. Throughout the movie he gets a gun thrown in his face so he will tell various people where this diamond is, and he continually tells them no, until he is reunited with his son. He brings about a change in over 5 characters in the movie. He commands an unbelievable presence throughout the movie.
2) The Departed is not the best movie of the year. It is a good movie, worth watching multiple times. It is not a movie that should win movie of the year. Movie of the year should be a movie that we as a country can say "look world this is the best movie we made this year." The movie really has nothing to say exact "Lying will get you killed and violence is bad." A movie of the year should have something real to say that will make you think and make you better off for knowing. Babel, Blood Diamond, Half Nelson, Last King of Scotland all say this. The problem is that these movies hit you in a way that is uncomfortable and you may not like the feeling. Its easy to like The Departed: all the bad guys die, only a few of the good guys die, there are lots of explosions, and Alec Baldwin is as good as he always is. The Academy should have done something bold and had a movie that would change how we think and view the world win for a change.

I believe the best movies of last year were in this order:
1) Babel
2) Blood Diamond
3) Half Nelson
4) Last King of Scotland
5) The Queen
6) The Departed
7) Letters from Imo Jima
8) Little Miss Sunshine