Labyrinth won everything else it was up for, and Lives is an amazing, brilliant movie.

Labyrinth didn't win Best Original Screenplay.

I'm ashamed to say I haven't actually seen "Das Leben der Anderen" yet (bad German resident!), but it's out on DVD here so that's easily rectified. Everyone here is very happy that it won.

The second that Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg walked on to the stage I knew that Marty had won. The financial and cultural cachet on the stage there at one time... wow. Marty was adorable, as was Thelma. What with Anne V. Coates winning the BAFTA Fellowship it's been a great year for amazing female editors.

[Edited because I meant Screenplay and wrote Score.]

Saw Ghost Rider. It was quite awful, but muchly in ways I like. The visual effects were really well designed (many cool points) and pretty well executed.

Eva Mendes was even worse than Nic Cage, which is saying something, because he stunk up the joint by overshooting past campy.

The other guys (Fonda, Bentley, Elliott) were appropriately over the top.

Unrelatedly, except for it being about a movie I may be dragged to in revenge for GR:

Playing a chained-up, half-naked nymphomaniac in her new movie Black Snake Moan helped Christina Ricci overcome her prudish nature, because now she parades around in her underwear all the time. The former child star had to face her fears of baring almost all for the film and decided the best way to get comfortable with revealing scenes was to wear nothing but lingerie at all times - even after cameras stopped rolling. She admits the ruse worked and made cast and crew think nothing of her revealing scenes when director Craig Brewer came to shoot them. And her new naked ambition lasted long after the movie wrapped. Ricci says, "I'm a prude and I do not like walking around naked and I was in my bathroom about two months after the movie finished and I was brushing my teeth and I was in my underwear and I looked down and was like, 'Oh, God, put something on.' Then I just stopped and thought, 'Oh my god, I was half naked for two months and my a*s was on camera.' I called my sister and I was like, 'Is it OK to wear nothing around the house? I'm freaking out.'"

Cute!

Oh, my. Also funny, but for different reasons:

On the heels of Paramount's confirmation that J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost) had been selected to direct the next Star Trek feature, reports began circulating on several movie and sci-fi websites Monday that the studio was in talks with Matt Damon, Adrien Brody, and Gary Sinise to play the roles of Capt. Kirk, Dr. Spock and Dr. McCoy respectively. First reported by IGN Movies, a unit of Fox Interactive, and attributed to unnamed studio sources, the stories also indicated that James McAvoy, who costarred in The Last King of Scotland, was "in the mix" to play the role of Enterprise engineer Scotty.

Adrien Brody? Spock? Now I want to see Adam Brody play Spock.

reports began circulating on several movie and sci-fi websites Monday that the studio was in talks with Matt Damon, Adrien Brody, and Gary Sinise to play the roles of Capt. Kirk, Dr. Spock and Dr. McCoy respectively.

Good lord, I can hear the wank from here.

I'm not sure I'd be able to consider that an actual Star Trek movie, but it sounds pretty entertaining, and full of eye candy.

I've long thought that both Sinise and Andy Serkis bear striking resemblances to DeForest Kelley, so that could be cool. I know Gary can do curmudgeonly exasperation well in a vaguely countrified manner.

Late to the party, but let me put in a vote for Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down as my favorite Almodovar.

I saw Starter For 10 yesterday. Frothy but loads of fun. My new crush, James McAvoy is a working class Essex kid who goes off to Bristol University, propelled by his love for quiz shows, and University Challenge in particular. I don't want to say any more, but it is romantic and well-acted and smart and funny and a lovely way to while away an afternoon.

That sounds right up my street. I loved him in Last King of Scotland.

He has an amazing scene where he is talking casually about his father's death when he was a kid and is trying to appear cool and and suddenly his eyes well up with unexpected tears. It's so real and vulnerable and just KILLED me.