The Worst of the Weird, Wacky, Wild 2007 Academy Awards

Overall, the 2007 Academy Awards ranks as the most entertaining since David Letterman took to the stage to introduce Uma to Oprah. Of course, no Oscar telecast would be worth watching without some snafus.

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Will Smith's son. His stiff reading of his lines and the leapfrogging over the announcement of a winner to get to the next list of nominees serves to make one wonder if he could possibly have gotten a part in his dad's movie if his last name wasn't Smith.

Biggest Waste of Time

What the heck was the deal with that collection of clips put together by Michael Mann supposedly about America? It had nothing to do with anything that either preceded or succeeded it and you could have taken those exact same clips and applied almost any theme at all to them. The producers are already painfully aware of how long the Oscar telecast normally is, so why waste time with something as devoid of meaning as this? Runner-up: That painful sequence involving film clips and a choir.

Worst Musical Moment

Although in a way, it was also the best. The Dreamgirls song trilogy felt more like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I mean those songs went on forever and they were just plain awful. Still, it was interesting to watch Beyonce Knowles seem to turn it into a competition to prove that she, and not Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, was the best singer on stage.

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Eva Green. Wow. Did you see that makeup job?

Strangest Upset

Okay, explain to me how Pan's Labyrinth seems to be on its way to winning the most awards of the night, beating out other Best Picture nominees in lesser categories, but manages not to win Best Foreign Language Film? This one is just plain strange.

Worst Presenters

Okay, I get having two international stars introduce the foreign language film clips and nominees. But couldn't there have been at least one with an accent that was understandable?

Oscar's Worst Moment