Of all the Oscar winners this year, my favorite is Spike Jonze, who finally wins a screenplay award for Her, which incidentally, is showing now in Manila.
You have to watch it na kasi last day na niya bukas, unless of course the distributors change their minds, but sa Trinoma nga last week, 2 screenings a day lang siya....
Which is sad, because Spike is a very original writer - and I love his previous work in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, where he was able to direct the great Meryl Streep and Nicolas Cage - and yeah, both got Oscar nominations for their performances.
His ideas are pretty original and out of the box and for the Academy to nominate Her in the Best Picture category really means a good portion of the voters really dig this love story.
Sayang lang Scarlett Johansson could not be nominated for Best Actress here. They should have a category for Voice Acting (just like what happened to 'Precious' in the LOTR series). He too deserved an Oscar, at least for voice acting, because we couldn't really see him, only the visual effects of the character he was portraying.
