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Oscars 2010: The alternative awards | Anna Pickard

published Mon, Mar 08 2010 08:37 GMT
Miley Cyrus was weedy, the Brat Pack survivors were scary, and the director of Crazy Heart built his part up. Here are the Oscars the Academy should have dished outBiggest cop-out While Neil Patrick Harris was ace, it felt completly disconnected from everything else in the Academy plan: It was like "Hugh Jackman was good last year" + "NPH was good at the Emmys last year" + "audiences like things that are old and safe and unthreatening like Steve Martin. Let's mix all of those without actually letting them intersect in any interesting fashion, yeah?"Weakest hosting hit Some hosts manage to make that bit where they run through every important nominee and namecheck them, by rote, without leaving anyone out ...

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