update

As expected, Hal Holbrook was not chosen for the Oscar for best supporting actor, it was Javier Bardem for his role in "No Country for Old Men."

Here's a photo from the http://www.oscar.com/ site, with his wife Dixie Carter last night before the show.

Did anyone else think that was the most boring Oscar show ever? I expected more for the 80th, maybe a fabulous montage of Oscar's history at least. I liked the video clips from earlier decades' shows. Maybe the writers' strike is the reason this show was sub-par. Even Jon Stewart seemed a little off, although a few of his lines were funny, like this one from his opening monologue:

"Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty."