Our neighbors across the street stopped by this morning to invite us over for an Oscar watching fondue shindig tonight. Of course, our reaction was “the Oscars are tonight”? And then “ooh, fondue!”. So we went. Surprisingly, we really enjoyed watching the Oscars this year. For once, we had seen a lot of the movies with award nominations. Usually it seems like we skip the mainstream movies and so we’re out of touch for the Oscars, but this year somehow the Academy was watching what we watched. Here’s a list of movies we saw that got nominations in the major categories.

• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Frozen River
• Wall-E
• Iron Man
• Encounters at the End of the World
• Man on Wire
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• In Bruges

All were good, and we also have a list of movies we need to catch up on. Maybe now Ed will let me rent The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. (Also, the award ceremony itself seemed better than usual. Maybe I just haven’t watched for awhile? But I liked the way they had all those legendary actors and actress speak to the nominees for best actor and best actress. I need to find a sound file of Sofia Loren saying “Merrrrryl Strrreep”.)