@Death: Seth has been pretty meh so far, he has a few zinger here & there, but overall, meh but i'm bias as i'm not much of a fan o his these days admitingly.

Also Glad PaperMan won best animated short, it deserved it. But Brave winning Best Animated feature..i'm sorry but NO, just NO. If it had turned out like it should have with its original director, i'd be fine, but as is NO. Pretty much every other movie was more deserving of that then Brave was! I'm sorry but its the truth!

As for the other categories, sad Hobbit & Skyfall haven't won anything yet despite nominations. Glad to see Avengers get at least 1 nom even if it didn't win.

I mean I know the Oscar's are rigged, but would would be nice to see more variety in the winners.

I do agree Life Of Pi probably deserved its wins though.

Someone please tell McFarlane he's not funny. Because he's not.

Somehow I missed the Animation awards, but I can say at the least that Wreck-It Ralph was better then Brave. Oh well, nice to see Paperman win. Anne Hathaway definitely deserved her award too.

I was really glad to see Christoph Waltz get Best Supporting Actor. That was really a career-defining performance. The rest of the awards were mostly predictable. Though I honestly didn't expect Life of Pi to take away so many.

I was pretty sad to see Beasts of the Southern Wild get snubbed for everything. I would have liked to seen that little girl(I can't possibly spell her name) win Best Actress.

Also, I didn't have any problems with Seth. I've seen worse Oscar hosts.

Haven't watched the Oscars for a while, there are many reasons for this:

I don't have cable, I had it for a while, watched it for about 6 months then lost interest in it.
While I have a deep admiration for all visual media as an art form, a picture winning or being nominated for an award means little to nothing for me. However, there have been some great movies in my collection that are Oscar winners, King's Speech, Gladiator, American Beauty, Beautiful Mind, Forest Gump, Apollo 13 etc. The fact that they all won an award for something is mere conincedenc - I watched and bought these movies because I saw trailers and wanted to see them - or like in the case of Apollo 13, I got an amazing deal on it and bought it.

However, I feel shows such as the Oscars only promote biases and elitism amoung fan communities in movies (those of you who think anime fans are bad for this, movie fans are far worse). Too often I have spoken about movies with people and they feel that in order for a movie to be considered good, it should at least be nominated for an award, sure, whatever, okay. Of course if a movie wins any award it's automatically good right? I disagree, I've watched comic book movies cough Ironman/Dark Knight series cough with better written, more believable characters than some of these movies, even some kid's cartoons nowadays have more substance.

Or perhaps the greatest sin, self indulgence - there's a difference between making art, a pity show, or visual masturbation, and this is why movie like the Hours made me want to vomit all over my living room. The only redeeming quality about that movie was Meryl Streep's performance and story arch - she's amazing in everything (BTW, go watch Devil Wears Prada if looking for a good movie). The Hours could've been done with just her character alone - it was a great story, the other two were self indulgent, lady abandons her child and I'm supposed to feel sorry for her, give me a break, so, I really didn't like it very much. Then I remember watching Thelma & Louise, blow up a guy in a truck for his immature behaviour, sorry, but I don't see heroism there, I'm surprised I was even able to make it through that misandric pity fest. Proof that just because movies get nominated and awarded doesn't mean they're good. Then an amazing movie like Shawshank Redemption won nothing - nominations mind you, no wins though, it was condending against Forest Gump though, but still, it should've won something.

Then there's the ceremonies themselves, the red carpet, fashion police and all that, then we wonder why the population of North America is so celebrity obsessed.

For me personally, with the Oscars, which goes for three or fours hours, I'd sooner use that time watching a new movie or anime, playing my bass, exercising, or even playing Ninja Gaiden. Life in my bubble is peaceful.