Innocent Wild: Oscars 2013

I would be lying if I told you that the Oscars isn’t one of my greatest addictions.

Waking up early in the morning and sitting in front of the TV set with my cousin and my Lolo beside me just to watch the Oscars is a yearly ritual that started when I was a little girl, which I still practise today… Only, Lolo’s not in the picture any more, and because of school, I resort to watching evening encore telecasts. But still, it’s the same thing. I won’t make it through the year sanely without getting to watch the Oscars.

From the red carpet reports and interviews to the ceremonies, I couldn't help myself but feel giddy, nervous, and whatnot on Oscars Day.

This year’s Academy Awards is one of those that I’d like to call “special”, simply because it’s the first time that I got to see ALL of the Best Picture nominees, and I must say that every single entry in the category is deserving in their own way. But as it always has been, only one will win, and this year, it’s Argo.

Argo’s win is no surprise to me nor to anybody else at all – that’s for sure. It’s a great film, with a nice story, with a hot director, and it swept every major awards show this year with such consistency, winning every best picture award there is. So, bagging the naked gold man at the end of the night shouldn't be anything near unexpected at all.

Daniel Day-Lewis made history today after winning his third Best Actor Oscar for the film Lincoln. Meryl Streep presenting the award is a premonition itself, as she is the Academy’s record-breaking actress, having three wins under her name – two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress.

Jennifer Lawrence’s Best Actress win for Silver Linings Playbook is an obvious one as well. I’m not saying that the other nominees in the category are no match for her, because Amour’s Emmanuelle Riva (who turned 86 on Oscar Night) is amazing and Jessica Chastain’s performance in Zero Dark Thirty is also very much worthy of the award. But there’s just something in Jennifer that delivered, which made her stand out. And if you’ll ask me, it’s because she’s a natural.

I was very much close to tears when Ang Lee was announced as this year’s Best Director for Life of Pi. He truly deserved it after creating a film based on a story that was once deemed as “unfilmable” – such is an incredible and a very brave move that few film makers of today will take.

Here are some other things I want to say:

Seth MacFarlane is not a good host. Sorry.

Although this sparked much hate over the web, I loved seeing Daniel Radcliffe and Kristen Stewart present the award for Achievement in Production Design. It's not everyday that you get to see a Boy Wizard and a Girl Vampire on the same stage, y'know?

Anne Hathaway’s Best Supporting Actress win made my mum cry.

Adele’s sultry performance of “Skyfall” is beyond words spine-tingling.

Suraj Sharma, who Ang Lee called a “miracle” in his acceptance
speech, looked very dapper. Oh, God, I love him. We’ll get married someday. He just doesn’t know it yet.