I normally don't enjoy the Academy Awards because the Oscars typically go to long boring dramatic movies that I just can't stomach. This years awards were great for a few reasons:

1. Tivo. Watch what you like and skip the commercials and speeches that are uninteresting. (Okay, actually I've been Tivo-ing for several years but this is the first time I watched the awards since I got the Tivo.)

2. An Inconvenient Truth won for documentary. Our responsibility to be nice to our planet and preserve it for future generations is one thing I truly believe in. The Oscar win for An Inconvenient Truth gives the movie and the problem of global warming the attention it deserves. I drive my veg oil car as a way of doing my part to lower my carbon footprint. If you haven't seen this movie, please rent or buy it and watch it with friends.

3. Best original screenplay went to Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine. A comedy. Definitely not one of the long and boring dramatic movies that the academy typically honors. It was a fun movie with a very talented cast, and I'm pleased that Arndt won. He's currently working on an upcoming Pixar movie, so I expect more great things from him.