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Overall a great night at The Oscars. No real surprises, except for Tilda Swinton taking home Best Supporting Actress and Golden Compass besting Transformers for Best Special Effects. Diablo Cody, Daniel Day-Lewis, Pixar and The Coen Brothers all got their Oscars as expected.

There were some good moments throughout and John Stewart used a steady hand to guide the ship. Didn’t hurt that he was really funny and had some great lines. He kept the ceremony brisk and moving along.

The moments for us? Easily the epic opener and Glen Hansgard and Marketa Irglova taking home Best Original Song. But it was when John Stewart brought her back onto the stage, after getting her mic cut off and the music blasting over her, that really made us happy. It was classy on his part, not so much on the show’s producers. Here’s their first go round.

And her actual acceptance speech was wonderful and touching. That was the best moment of the night.

Mp3: Glen Hansgard and Marketa Irglova - “Falling Slowly”

Here’s the opening animated sequence, which always gets us pumped up when they do this sort of thing.

Full list of the winners after the jump. MORE »

Yawn.  But in case anyone cares about who took home the awards from the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild.

Seems that the Coen Brothers’s No Country For Old Men was the big winner at both awards shows.  Hmmm….

Amy Adams was nominated for an Oscar for her turn in Junebug and she traded barbs with John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell in Talledega Nights,  but now she can add number one movie to her growing resume.  Probably doesn’t hurt that Enchanted was a family comedy paying homage and riffing on famed Disney movies, or that it also starred McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey.  Whatever the reason, Enchanted crushed the Thanksgiving box-office with $55 million in sales.

This was the second biggest Thanksgiving opening, behind Toy Story 2’s $80.1 million in 1999.  Sliding in at #2 was the “urban” holiday flick This Christmas.  I put urban in air quotes because it seems to baffle media outlets on how to describe a holiday movie with a predominantly black cast.  So they say it was an unexpected surprise that it generated a healthy $27.1 million.

The problem is that this type of thing happens whenever a movie similar to this does well, whether it’s a flick by Tyler Perry or Friday, or whatever.  It’s almost insulting that it’s labeled “urban,” might as well just call it “the holiday movie starring black folks who eat chitlins and fried chicken.”  Either distinction is just as reprehensible.

Beowulf, Hitman and Bee Movie round out the top five, respectively.

The Coen Brothers No Country For Old Men continued to impress in limited release.  Showing on only 860 theaters, it managed to pull in $8.1 million, or a per screen average of $9,432.  Next to This Christmas’s per screen average that was by far the highest this weekend.

Click here to see the entire weekend chart.

Lots of trailers have surfaced recently for a bunch of must-see flicks. Rather than do an individual post for each one, since there are a few, we’ll lump them into one gigantic super-deluxe packaging post. Afterall, it’s the first awesome day in Boston, weather wise, so not that we want to stay in doors.

We’ve got I’m From Barcelona’s Let Me Introduce My Friends, blasting out the speakers and you can imagine the mood around here is sky high. The 29-member Swedish twee pop band is like instant Kool-Aid, perhaps the Purplesaurus Rex variety. Instant seratonin once it hits your eardrums. But we’re not here for music. We’re here for trailers.

First up is James Mangold’s 3:10 To Yuma. Yes, it is a remake. But this one stars Russell Crowe as the baddest outlaw around. He’s so bad that once captured no one wants to transport him to the train station. One very good man does, portrayed by Oyster favorite Christian Bale. Of course, Crowe’s gang doesn’t want him to go to jail so they make an attempt to intercept the caravan. Riveting stuff. The trailer is perfect in that it makes you wish the movie was coming out next week, but doesn’t give much away as well.

Next, is the latest Coen Brothers flick No Country For Old Men. Paramount Vantage is releasing the movie, which generated a ton of buzz from Cannes this year. Of course, it’s the Coen Bros. and even their missteps are worth noting. And this one is based on the acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. The story is about an illegal drug deal gone awry at the Mexican-US border. Love that the Coen’s are going back to the feel of Blood Simple.

Audiences get an early sneak peak at Pixar’s Wall E. It’s a nice trailer, in that, by taking a look back at all the old Pixar films they tie in the excitement to the new movie based on the nostalgia for those first few Pixar films. It’s brilliantly done in that respect.

And finally, the reclusive writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, who hasn’t been heard of since 1999’s Magnolia has a new film in the works. It’s called There Will Be Blood. It stars Daniel Day Lewis and focusses on the early American oil tycoons. The trailer comes courtesy of Cigarettes and Red Vines - a P.T. Anderson resource. Anything with Daniel Day Lewis is a-okay in these parts.

So that’s that. Go enjoy the day folks!