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Winner: India

Hollywood has joined Dell and all of the other bigwig tech companies these days by outsourcing all of our major awards to Mumbai. Heck, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon even beat that crazy octuplets mother to the eight-baby-punch.

Loser: USA

Somewhere, Lee Iacocca needs a hug. His dim view of a dystopian future wherein Americans get beaten by foreigners at everything we hold dear has almost come to pass, at least in Hollywood. Wait, are we still counting Hollywood as part of America? Sean Hannity must be shaking with glee in anticipation of tonight's show.

Winner: Be Kind, Rewind:

A film that earned only $11.2 million at the box office against a $20 million production budget somehow became the inspiration for the entire opening segment.

Loser: The Viewers

The producers went out of their way to put Jennifer Aniston right in front of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in hopes of a Wrestlemania-flavored cat fight. Sadly, no punches were thrown nor were any vicious looks exchanged, at least on camera. What a letdown. We do, however, think this is a fantastic idea for a reality show. A jilted lover is forced to sit in a room with their ex and the other woman taunting them for an hour while whispering onlookers try to incite violence. Oh wait, Jerry Springer beat us to the punch.

Winner: Pixar

Not only did WALL-E win the Best Animated Film category, the producers cruelly forced the voice actor of a fellow nominee to hand them the award. When Jack Black and Jennifer Aniston walked off-stage last night, they probably bitched to one another for 15 minutes straight. Then, they got drunk. Very, very drunk. Richard Nixon midnight calling David Frost drunk.

Loser: Animation in General

After an early awards season brimming with hope, WALL-E wound up as the latest Pixar film shut out of non-animated categories. BOP doesn't mean to brag but we called this one all the way back in June. We've noticed a trend after it happening eight previous times. We're quick like that. The Academy's constant overlooking of brilliant Pixar releases is wearisome and disheartening. Of course, WALL-E's disappointment was not the only bad news for the animation branch of the industry. Waltz with Bashir failed to win Best Foreign Language Film. A title that was once considered a potential winner in Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Language Film wound up getting only one nod and no victories. A year that saw the release of several wonderful animated titles such as Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Horton Hears a Who and these two titles ends with the lot of them garnering almost no attention from Academy voters. But BOP has a good feeling about Up next year!

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