The 81st Academy Awards

I watched the Academy Awards last night. It was quite entertaining actually, though at 3 1/2 hours long it was a bit tedius. Maybe that's why they changed the format slightly to make it more interesting, such as having the host do musical numbers every now and then, making the set designs more interesting with different backgrounds for different categories and even in the presentation of the awards in the best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress categories. Apparently the ratings for the Oscars have been continuously dropping every year so maybe it's an attempt to revive interest in it and to make it more updated and lively. I think it's the right direction but they do need to do something about the time as I think nowadays people just don't have the attention span to sit through something so long and not that awfully interesting as most people are just interested in the few main categories. But overall it was a good effort and one can tell they tried their best so kudos to the crew and let's hope they manage to stem the lack of interest in the Academy Awards or even increase the viewership in the coming years.