Oscars

I am completely wiped out from this weekend.  I am counting down the minutes until I can head home.  It was beyond perfect.  This morning I was sad to see our family go.  This is going to be an annual trip and I am already looking forward to next year.

Last night I threw an Oscar party for 8 of our friends.  We dined on lobster tails, twice baked potatoes, champagne and cupcakes.  It was by far the best Oscar party we have thrown so far.  A full weekend recap will be later this week.  I have to edit down the 200+ photos I took.

It has always been a dream of mine {like many} to attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.  Maybe one day I will be able to attend, but until then I will just have to pretend.

Cameron looks amazing!

Love me some Tebow:)

I kind of have a girl crush on Leslie Mann's character from Knocked Up

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Oscar Nominations

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The Oscars are like my Super Bowl.

I love them!

This will be Marco's and my 14 year watching them together.  When he was in college I would always take the Monday after off work so we could watch them together on Sunday night.  Yes, I am that dedicated.

We live in LA for one reason, film, with the goal of one day making a movie that leads to another and another and then one day when he is old and gray maybe an Oscar.  It is that dream that keeps us here each and every day.

Well this morning the nominations were announced.  We have been hesitant to see any films lately because we don't want to waste money on ones that won't be nominated.  At $30 a pop for 2 tickets we have to choose wisely.

Our list of must see movies before 2/26 is a mile long and include the following:

The Artist

The Descendants

Hugo

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Midnight in Paris*

Moneyball*

The Tree of Life*

War Horse

The Help

My Week with Marilyn

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Iron Lady

Beginners*

Hell and Back Again*

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front*

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Pina

Undefeated

Bullhead

Monsieur Lazhar

A Separation

Footnote

In Darkness

*available on Netflix

21 films total so at this rate we will have to watch 5.25 movies a week.  While I don't think that is going to happen realistically we are going to start this weekend with Moneyball, The Descendants and The Tree of Life.

Post Oscar Thoughts

Okay, I am just going to say it...this year's Oscars were a drag.  Did anyone else feel like there weren't very many superstars there or was it just me?  Not that I am dogging anyone who was there at all.  To me this event is like the ultimate stage so I just thought more people would come out that's all.

My best dressed of the night goes to Mila Kunis.  

I was extremely disappointed in Anne Hathaway's dress selections.  In my book RZ failed and it makes me sad to say this because I think she is great.  You can check them out here.  What did you think?!

The only one I would wear.

James & Anne didn't do a very good job hosting.  They were kind of boring.  James looked high most of the time.  I would grade this years Oscars with a C+.  The stage looked great, Kings Speech was amazing, the F-bomb was dropped and Wally Pfitzer won for Best Cinematographer.  

Our Little Oscar Party

I hope y'all had a fabulous weekend!  MAG and I spent the weekend working out, catching up on last minute movies before the Oscars, attending his sisters birthday dinner and hosting our own little Oscar Party!  I look forward to this weekend every year.  There is just something about the awards show that makes me happy.  I think the main thing is that one day MAG and I hope to attend.  We will just have to wait and see what happens:)

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon prepping for our dinner party with a few close friends.  One the menu was chili, crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, brie with honey and cranberries, carrots with dip and red velvet cupcakes for desert.  Overall it was a great party and everyone nominated me to host it next year.   I love doing stuff like this so the fact that everyone enjoyed it made me feel awesome.  Here are some pictures.  The quality sucks because they were taken on my iphone.

 Intensely filling out the ballots!