Still on the Oscars - 81st Annual Academy Awards

Finally I watched the whole award ceremony on Star Movies last night. I must say this year's event was awesome compared to the previous years. Hugh Jackman did a good job for his 1st attempt of hosting such a big event, and I was impressed with the opening act which he linked the nominated movies up in a touch of humour. Although he may not sing well, but the effect of bringing the gist of every movie brings back memories of those movies if one had even watched them before.

The Annual Academy Awards is an event of the year where all movie makers gather and celebrate a whole year of hardwork and finally, get recognition. This year was exceptionally outstanding as we see many non English winners such as Penelope Cruz, Spanish who won Supporting actress, Slumdog Millionaire's multiple wins for various category for Indian film maker, the movie Departure, Japanese winning Foreign Movie, another Japanese short documentary won too. I like what Penelope said in her acceptance speech, «"This ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival."» How well said.

2008 closed with so many incredible movies made, looking forward for more in 2009... As far as I know, many great movies and blockbusters will already in their final post production, some may be already on it's way to theatres near us. May all the movie magic be with us!