OSCARS SEASON: The race is on!

Today's the 77th oscar awards and hopefully I can access my channel 9 coz i haven't set my cable yet on my tv .. wawa nman ako... anyway.. speaking 'bout the oscars.. haven't watched any films that's part of the oscars,,, But i'm looking forward to see the winner for Best Animated Feature film, and I'll go for Shrek 2 and it's soundtrack, "accidentally in love". My bet would also be "Million Dollar Baby" eventhough I haven't seen it yet... I'm supposed to but I don't have time and my "baby" doesn't want to watch it so.. we end up watching "alfie" instead. If I will be one of the juror of the "most prominent award giving body", I'll also give the best actor trophy for Leonardo de Caprio although i don't like his role for "aviator", I just want him to win since he wasn't recognized for "Titanic" though he was nominated for the Golden Globe for the same film.. But usually, Golden Globe winners doesn't match Oscar's so since he won the best actor spot at the Golden Globe, he needs to blow fire with "Ray's" Jamie Foxx for the best actor in a leading role... Clint Eastwood was predicted to recieve the "golden man" but I would still take my stand for Di Caprio. Hillary Swank and Annet benning would be two of my choices although I anticipated "Tatou" for the film "A very Long Engagement" to get the award for best actress in a leading role but she never made it for nominations.

Back in my college we used to have a "prestigeous" awarding ceremony for all Comm. Arts students to recognize their "Hardworking" projects in the field of Massmedia. The highlight of the event would be the film category. And in our time, our most talked-about film, "Saga", bagged 12 out of 13 awards including Best Picture, Best Directing (me), Best Actress (Maces), Best Cinematography(me again), Best Sup Actress (Aby), Best sup Actor(libert) Best Editing, Best prod'n Design, and Best Scoring(me again.. no choice)

Recieving an award for making a film is just a bonus because what is the most fulfilling is if the viewers will appreciate the film as a whole and if it was whole-heartedly being accepted and if there's a connection or if the film magnifies the experiences that they had in their past.The film succeeds if it becomes an instrument for them to fight for the battles in life. It is not with the superficial things that would provide a recognition that would describe a film "worthy" but the effects that it can provide it's viewers. It is not in the Awards that would best define if the film succeeded but it's the warm applause comming from it's viewers.