Again, five previous winners in the category come out to offer testimonials to the nominees. On the one hand, the group therapy scheme makes sense: Actors are usually inclined towards narcissism, after all. But it also replaces the clips of their performances -- it's almost like the actors are being rewarded not because of their work but because these five people have decided to get up and speak about five others. And it's not helping that Anne Hathaway behaved like a preteen at a Beatles concert ca. 1964 when Shirley MacClaine came out to sponsor her.
I wonder how Sam Mendes feels that he wasn't the one to direct Kate Winslet in her Oscar-winning role. The cynic in me wonders how much longer that marriage is going to last, given Winslet's and Mendes's opposing career arcs. (And good heavens does anyone still think American Beauty deserved its awards? Is that really his high point? On the other hand, maybe it's not -- recall Kevin Spacey "accidentally" naming Alan Ball as the film's director: "Sometimes it felt that way, the script seemed to direct itself.")
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