The 87th Academy Awards: The Best, The Awkward and A Full List of Winners!

So, the highlight of my year is once again, over. The Academy Awards is a big deal for a person who loves films AND award ceremonies (I personally can't think of anything better) and the 87th Academy Awards did not disappoint. Okay so Neil Patrick Harris wasn't as hilarious and wacky as Ellen DeGeneres last year (I mean, who can forget the Oscar selfie and the pizza ordering?) but it was still great to watch and it still came with its' surprises e.g. Birdman beating Boyhood?! So I've assembled a little post rounding up the highlights of this year's ceremony, the most awkward and cringey moments (there were quite a few) and then I've given you a full list of winners just in case you haven't seen them yet! Enjoy!

THE BEST:-

- One of the best opening numbers in Oscar history (featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Anna Kendrick and Jack Black)

- Patricia Arquette's female empowerment acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood 

(featuring Meryl Streep as a strong independent woman)

- The incredibly moving performance of Best Original Song winner "Glory" from Selma 

- Graham Moore's extremely powerful speech for winning Best Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game

- Neil Patrick Harris... in his underwear (don't think anything more needs to be said?)

- My personal favourite... Lady Gaga defied expectations with her "The Sound of Music" tribute

UMM... AWKWARD...

- After winning Best Original Song, Common very awkwardly misses Oprah Winfrey's high five

- Eddie Redmayne's over-excitable and cringey acceptance speech for Best Actor in The Theory of Everything

- The director of Ida, winner of Best Foreign Language Film won't stop!

- John Travolta getting a bit handsy with Idina Menzel

- Terrence Howard gets a bit overly emotional

THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS:-

Best Picture

"Birdman"

Best Director

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "Birdman"

Best Leading Actor

Eddie Redmayne - "The Theory of Everything"

Best Leading Actress

Julianne Moore - "Still Alice"

Best Supporting Actor

JK Simmons - "Whiplash"

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette - "Boyhood"

Best Original Screenplay

"Birdman"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"The Imitation Game"

Best Animated Feature Film

"Big Hero 6"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Ida"

Best Documentary Feature

"Citizenfour" 

Best Documentary - Short Subject

"Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1"

Best Live Action Short Film

"The Phone Call"

Best Animated Short Film

"Feast"

Best Original Score

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Original Song

"Glory" by Common and John Legend - "Selma"

Best Sound Editing

"American Sniper"

Best Sound Mixing

"Whiplash"

Best Production Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Cinematography

"Birdman"

Best Make-Up & Hairstyling

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Costume Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Film Editing

"Whiplash"

Best Visual Effects

"Interstellar"

My Top 40 Disney Songs of All Time (20-1)

So, these are my Top 20 Disney songs (sorry about the delay between them!)

Enjoy!

20. "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo & Stitch

19. "Where Do I Go From Here?" from Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

18. "Just Around the Riverbend" from Pocahontas

17. "That's How You Know" from Enchanted

16. "Zero to Hero" from Hercules

15. "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled

14. "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" from Hercules

13. "I See the Light" from Tangled

12. "A Whole New World" from Aladdin

11. "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast

10. "A Star is Born" from Hercules

9. "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast

8. "So Close" from Enchanted

7. "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid

6. "Let It Go" from Frozen

5. "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio

4. "Circle of Life" from The Lion King

3. "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast

2. "Go the Distance" from Hercules

1. "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan

So, there we have it. Phil Collins and his brilliant theme for Tarzan reigns supreme!

Thank you for reading. Remember, if you've never listened to them, DO IT NOW.

x

My Top 40 Disney Songs of All Time (40-21)

Gee-whiz! Hello, boys and girls! (Too cheesey? Yeah I think so...)

Good evening, blog-readers. Firstly (and I've never actually said this yet) thank you for reading this! I'm surprised at the number of page views I've had and some of the great feedback I've had for my Big Brother/Disney/American Horror Story/general rambling. I applaud you for clicking the link.

So, as a lot of people have probably established by now, Disney is my life. Everything about it makes me happy - and one of the main factors of Disney that everybody loves is the music. Whether it's catchy, whether it's corny or whether it makes you cry, a lot of them are awesome. So I've whittled it down to a Top 40 - quite difficult. I've included a video of the song, just in case you've never heard the song (what is wrong with you people?)

So, let us commence.

40. "Life is a Highway" from Cars

39. "Strange Things" from Toy Story

38. "Poor Unfortunate Souls" from The Little Mermaid

37. "Fixer Upper" from Frozen

36. "I'll Make A Man Out of You" from Mulan

35. "Love is an Open Door" from Frozen

34. "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella

33. "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

32. "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets

31. "True Love's Kiss" from Enchanted

30. "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess & the Frog

29. "We're Doing a Sequel" from Muppets Most Wanted

28. "He Lives in You" from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

27. "Colours of the Wind" from Pocahontas 

26. "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin 

25. "Once Upon a Dream" from Maleficent 

24. "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King

23. "For the First Time in Forever" from Frozen

22. "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins

21. "Reflection" from Mulan

So there's the first 20, I'll be posting the top 20 in a couple of days time.

Peace out! x

Celebrity Big Brother 2015: Katie Price is the winner? Really?

Inspirational? Yeah, right.

Now, I know it's incredibly sad to rant about Celebrity Big Brother because... well it's nothing to get angry about. But this year, I've feel like they've mugged off every viewer, and I'm glad I didn't spend any money on voting.

The woman you see above entered the house 10 days later than everyone else. A lot of housemates used this against her when she was crowned the winner, saying it was unfair because she didn't experience "the tension". To be honest, the whole series was tense. I don't think there was ever a calm moment or a day without an argument. So no, I don't think that was Katie Price's fault... but did she really deserve to win or the bigger question... did she ACTUALLY win?

Now the problem with me is that I always look way too much into everything. I don't know what Katie Price is like but from what I've seen from the media, she is fame-hungry, she is ALWAYS in the Sun newspaper. She is a rich dumbass, basically. But is she that dumb? My verdict is that she only went in the Big Brother house on agreement that she'd win. Rumour has it that her pay was the highest in Celebrity Big Brother history. 

Also, if you look at Twitter and everything, Katie Price was not the favourite. Controversial Katie Hopkins was the hot favourite all through the series, with Keith Chegwin and Michelle Visage (my personal favourite) all having higher odds than Katie Price. And fans seemed a little shocked and angered when Katie Price won. 

So it all seems odd. The fact that all Katie Price did in there was lie about, talking really graphically about her sexual encounters and all the men in her life (I feel sorry for her kids). So yeah, she's such an inspiration. 

Anyway, rant over.

This series was one of the most controversial of all time and the arguments got a little boring at the end of it. Bring on summer!

"American Horror Story: Freak Show": The top 10 moments

So, the latest instalment of "American Horror Story" has come to an end - booooooooo! I'm actually pretty gutted, because (and this is a very unpopular opinion) "Freak Show" is my personal favourite of them all. I LOVED the circus theme, I LOVED the new cast members and this season never failed to scare me - Exhibit A: Twisty the Clown. Still makes me shiver. So here are my top ten moments of the series (although, it was hard to whittle it down to ten):- 

10. The ghost of Edward Mordrake 

One of the main storylines from this series was the legend of Edward Mordrake. Now, apparently this is a real thing but I've never heard of it. Edward Mordrake is a man with a face on the back of his head (COUGH COUGH HARRY POTTER) who apparently went crazy at a freak show and killed all of his fellow freaks. Whenever any freak performs on Halloween night, Edward Mordrake visits them and potentially kills them and makes him join his ghost freak tribe thingy. Sounds weird, but it was particularly creepy because of the excellent Wes Bentley (plays Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games) and the mysterious green fog that appeared whenever he did. Only bad thing about him was that he killed Twisty the Clown, one of the best characters in American Horror Story history.

9. Queen Jessica Lange as Elsa Mars

Now, don't get me wrong, Jessica Lange IS and ALWAYS WILL BE American Horror Story. I have no idea what the next series will be like without her. However, this year, I feel like Elsa Mars was her least appealing character. She was fabulous (that Lana Del Rey cover) but I don't know. It just didn't really do a lot for me. The only reason she's number nine is because of Jessica Lange - one of the best, most underrated actresses of all time. Just I think a lot of American Horror Story fans will agree that Fiona Goode, Sister Jude and Constance were much better characters. 

8. Ryan Murphy brings in a bit of "Glee"

Oh, Ryan. If anyone watched "American Horror Story" and "Glee", they would not think it would have been written by the same person. But this season, it got a little bit clearer. From the first episode, there's been random little musical numbers throughout which I have loved (mostly David Bowie songs) e.g. "Life on Mars" and "Heroes", the latter making a perfect final scene. However, my personal favourite was Elsa's Halloween performance "Gods and Monsters" by Lana Del Rey. These songs took many AHS fans back to the legendary moment of "The Name Game" in Season 2. 

7. Sarah Paulson's happy ending (again)


For some reason, and nobody has ANY idea why, Sarah Paulson's character ALWAYS has a happy ending. In "Murder House", she survives. In "Asylum", she's the main character - who survives. In "Coven", she becomes the Supreme witch. And same goes for "Freak Show". In fact, her two-headed character Bette and Dot found love with Evan Peters' character and was pregnant at the end of the series - but it's not always a smooth path for Sarah, oh no. For example, being blinded with acid and being tortured in an asylum for being a lesbian. However, Bette and Dot wasn't Sarah's best role but they were pretty amazing. I particularly loved how their extremely different personalities worked so well together - the dumb dreamer and the feisty, upfront one.

6. Evan Peters (of course)


Oh Evan. He seems to get more and more lovely every series. After being particularly overlooked in "Coven" (he only had like eight lines in the whole thing), Jimmy Darling was one of Evan's finest characters. And he lived happily ever after with Bette and Dot - yaaaaay! He was most definitely the hero of "Freak Show". Bravo to you Mr Peters, and those muscles.

5. Dandy Mott (and his buttocks)


And here is the series psycho. We've had Rubber Man, Bloody Face, Papa Legba and now we have Dandy Mott. The only difference is that the Freak Show serial killer is slightly gorgeous. Despite the fact he's lying in a bath in his mother's blood in this photo, something about him is extremely dishy. Dandy is one of my favourite American Horror Story antagonists, played brilliantly by Finn Wittrock. And I thank you especially for that little glimpse of your bare bottom that we got. Definitely one of my highlights (I regret nothing).

4. The most terrifying clown EVER. (Continue at your risk)


Twisty. The. Clown. One thing that TERRIFIED all American Horror Story fans and people everywhere. So much so that the Clowns of the USA group sued American Horror Story for reinforcing a fear of clowns. For me, Twisty's storyline was the most powerful throughout the whole series. In the episode where it describes his life story and how he was incorrectly framed for a crime was quite moving, despite the fact he is ABSOLUTELY SHITTING-MY-PANTS SCARY. However, this makes him one of the most memorable characters and I'm actually quite gutted that he was only in it for four episodes.

3. Neil Patrick Harris saves the series


I LOVE Neil Patrick Harris. And just when the series got a teeny weeny bit boring, he comes in and saves the day. He played Chester Creb, a former soldier turned magician who came back from the war with a plate on his head. His only friend after killing his wife is a creepy ventriloquist doll (why do they do this to us?!) who he believes killed his wife. After a brief love affair with Bette and Dot and a gruesome murder of Emma Roberts, he flees. But in those two episodes, he really stood out as one of the highlights of this series. His husband David Burtka also played Jessica Lange's future husband in the finale, so the pair just got even cuter by working together on this. Bring on the Oscars.

2. Angela. Fucking. Bassett.

One of the best American Horror Story decisions since the show began was hiring this goddess. Miss Angela Bassett. She stole the series last year as the Voodoo Queen Marie Leveau and for me, she stole it this year as the three-breasted Desiree Dupree. She was feisty, empowered and she was one of the only survivors of the series, after hiding from Dandy and we see her in the finale married with kids. She truly was incredible in this series, and I'm really surprised no awards came her way. Hats off to you, Angela. I hope she returns for Season Five. 

1. American Horror Story IS linked!!! 


It was what we've always been waiting for. Every series is completely different, but Ryan Murphy decided to link this one with previous series' and the results didn't disappoint. In the episode "Orphans", we saw Pepper's story - how she ended up in Briarcliff Manor (the asylum in the second series) and it saw the magnificent return of Lily Rabe, who was noticeably missed throughout Freak Show. Another way it linked to Asylum was with Dr Hans Gruper and how he tortured Elsa's old flame Massimo. Dr Hans Gruper was the doctor played by James Cromwell. I don't know about anyone else but when these episodes aired, I screamed with excitement (well not literally, but in my head). I've been waiting four years for links between them and I got what I wanted - hurrah!

So now the theories begin as we wait for the next series... Rumours are that it's something to do with top hats? Or space? That would be interesting...