Eastwoods night

Million Dollar Baby prevailed as the soul survivor of last nights awards, although The Aviator won 5 awards, M$B's 4 trophies were all in major categories including Best Picture, Director, Actress, and Supporting Actor. Hilary Swank received her 2nd Oscar, after winning in 1999 for Boys Don' Cry. Clint Eastwood earned his 2nd Oscar for Directing, his Million Dollar Baby Oscar will now sit beside his Unforgiven Oscar. Morgan Freeman took home his first statue for Supporting Actor, he was also nominated for The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy.
Million Dollar Baby's Best Picture award felt good to be given out it seemed, in everyone's mind they wanted Scoresese's Aviator to win, but Million Dollar Baby was truly much more heartfelt, and more about character development than about epic style.(Not taking anything away from the Aviator)

The Aviator seemed perfect early on, and then seemed stronger after Cate Blanchett won for best supporting actress, she gave The Aviator tons of momentum after that win due to the fact that many felt Virginia Madsen for Sideways would rather be a better story to tell if she had been victorius. Jamie Foxx took home best actor, he was the biggest shoe-in of the night, sort of like Charlize Theron from last year. Sideways' only award came in the category of best adapted screenplay,after that it was a quiet night for the breakthrough film of the year.

In the major categories there weren't any upsets, I was hoping that maybe Clive Owen(Closer) or Thomas Haden Church would provide an upset in the best supporting actor race. It's fair to say that when it comes down to awarding the best picture of the year, you look at the story, the acting, and the directing over everything else, and M$B provided the best in all of those 3 categories.