I'm morbidly amused that Crash won the Best Picture Oscar last night. I thought it was a crap film, exploitative and boring. Same old, same old. I liked Brokeback Mountain, really enjoyed watching it. Brokeback Mountain had charm. at its heart it was an old fashioned love story with a perfect classic tragic ending. Memoirs of a Geisha had enormous style and beauty.

But this was the year of the Battle of the Minorities and one minority won out over the others. Sad in a way. Especially because for me, Brokeback Mountain was not about the tragedy of a hopeless homosexual love but about love, full stop.

Ah well, a pox upon the Academy Awards. I'm delighted that Wallace & Grummit's new film won Best Animation Feature. I hope it encourages more theatres to show it, more people to watch it and more to buy the DVD. Aardman films are delightful.