Jackman is the best thing at Oscar 2009

// February 24th, 2009 // movie talk

A.M.P.A.S. / Michael Yada

Not in particular order :

1. Hugh Jackman’s opening song. I said the list not in particular order, although the opening must been the best thing that ever happen in academy award’s stage ever. Hugh Jackman should won an Oscar for what he did last night and I don’t even his fan!

2. Anne Hathaway duet with Jackman as Nixon. Yes, you know as the president as in the movie Frost/Nixon. Oh, well, you won’t get it if you didn’t watch it. I just grew and grew to like this woman, so does many people in YouTube.

3. Hugh Jackman hasn’t seen The Reader, so his sketch basically about him guessing around on what The Reader is about. That’s so freaking hilarious, even him thought that it was too. You could heard him almost laughing while singing and dancing.

4. Tina Fey and Steve Martin entered the stage to read the best screenplay nominees. So, it’s done in “screenplay” way. That was amazingly creative and it shows more appreciation to the writers of course. It was brilliant!

5. They decided to break the tradition for lead and supported role where the last year winners usually read the winners for this year. Instead, they brought the old five winners and each doing some kind of tribute to each nominees. That’s pretty cool and I DO hope they kept doing that. Things that I missed are the clips showing the actors doing supposedly their best scene. Maybe it would be too long if they kept that.

6. Wall-E wins the best animation category. I am so confident that it’s gonna beats Kung Fu Panda and Bolt.

7. Nicole Kidman is there.

8. There’s a clip showing Hilary Swank and Tom Hanks wins the Oscar.

9. Queen Latifah sings I’ll Be Seeing You for ‘In Memoriam’ montage. I am not a fan of her but I think she did great job. Again, this is different with past Oscar where they only played some music in the background while the slide show was playing.

10. The mashed up between John Legend singing Down To Earth from Wall-E and A.R Rahman singing O-Saya and Jai Ho both from Slumdog Millionaire. This is also amazing. Kudos to whoever done the arrangement. I was wondering if they got inspired by so many mashed-up video at YouTube lately?

11. The musical numbers with Jackman featuring Beyonce Knowless are fantastic as well.

Overall the Oscar this year is richer, more creative and entertaining. They should have Jackman again as he IS the best thing that happen in Oscar last night. I am confident to say that the ceremony last night is also the best one I’ve ever seen.

Last but not least, here’s the video where Jackman did the opening number.