Viva Cuba!

Javier Bardem, the winner of the best supporting actor award, is a fantastic performer. He has four Goya Awards * the Spanish version of the Oscar * to prove it. But most Americans who see their movies at suburban multiplexes couldn’t pick him out of a lineup of Smurfs.

So it’s easy to understand why the producers of the Oscra show, figuring that Bardem was pretty much a lock to win, tried to inject some famous faces first by showing a montage of previous winners, ending with Cuba Gooding Jr.’s classic hyper-gone-mad acceptance speech. After that, anything poor Bardem had to offer couldn’t help but seem lethargic by comparison.

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