Been an insane weekend, a really good weekend but an insane one none the less. Can’t really ask for much more when it comes to a birthday weekend, football and rugby almost all good results apart from Saracens traditional late season implosion. Some awesome presents including signed Jay and Silent Bob Graphic novel…plus treated myself to that unholy console - PS3… more on that tomorrow.

Oscar season rolled round pretty quick and I had planned to throw up my nominations for each category for the year, however got to lazy to do it. I’ll throw it up tomorrow and sadly won’t tweak them so you can see how far off I was.

Full list of winners vs nominees below (courtesy of the BBC) - The best visual effects result is criminal!

Best picture: No Country For Old Men
Also nominated: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood

Best director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Also nominated: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Jason Reitman, Juno; Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton; Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Also nominated: George Clooney, Michael Clayton; Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd; Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah; Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Julie Christie, Away from Her; Laura Linney, The Savages; Ellen Page, Juno

Best supporting actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There; Ruby Dee, American Gangster; Saoirse Ronan, Atonement; Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Best supporting actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Also nominated: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James…; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War; Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild; Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best foreign language film: The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Also nominated: Beaufort (Israel), Katyn (Poland), Mongol (Kazakhstan), 12 (Russia)

Best animated feature film: Ratatouille
Also nominated: Persepolis,Surf’s Up

Best adapted screenplay: No Country For Old Men
Also nominated: Atonement, Away from Her, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There Will Be Blood

Best original screenplay: Juno
Also nominated: Lars and the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, The Savages

Best music (score): Atonement
Also nominated: The Kite Runner, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma

Best music (song): Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Also nominated: Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams) Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre), So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin), That’s How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)

Best documentary feature: Taxi to the Dark Side
Also nominated: No End in Sight, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Sicko, War/Dance

Best documentary short subject: Freeheld
Also nominated: La Corona (The Crown), Salim Baba, Sari’s Mother

Best visual effects: The Golden Compass
Also nominated: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Transformers

Best cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Also nominated: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Atonement, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, No Country For Old Men

Best art direction: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Also nominated: American Gangster, Atonement, The Golden Compass, There Will Be Blood

Best animated short film: Peter and the Wolf
Also nominated: I Met the Walrus, Madame Tutli-Putli, Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven), My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Best short film: Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Also nominated: At Night, Il Supplente, Tanghi Argentini, The Tonto Woman

Best costume design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Also nominated: Across the Universe, Atonement, La Vie en Rose, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best make-up: La Vie en Rose
Also nominated: Norbit, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Best sound mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Also nominated: No Country For Old Men, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma, Transformers

Best sound editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Also nominated: No Country For Old Men, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Transformers

Best film editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Also nominated: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Into the Wild, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood

Also took the time out to roll on with some mindless movie action checking out Jumper. Gosh somebody needs to be shot for that film! It’s been a while since I’ve seen a film so criminally underdeveloped. It’s a frustrating film to watch, without wanting to ruin it the drop some huge hints of a much deeper back story. There’s so much that could be progressed and make it a much deeper and more interesting film, it could actually make it a really good film. It certainly looks pretty good, and the acting throughout isn’t bad but it’s just a really soul less flick but with a really cool idea. It seems to reek of studio involvement; “Let’s remove that backstory scene, and lets have another scene where we Jump to a far flung location!”

I’m tired and no one reads this anyway so the rest can wait till tomorrow. Enjoy