Dealing with my Academy Award hangover.

Was not always impressed with NPH last night. But this took guts.

Okay so I watched the Oscars last night with my daughter, which is kind of like watching a Nazi parade with Hitler.

Every time my attention drifted away or I missed a joke she exclaimed "Dad! I thought you were going to watch this with me!"

I was, I was watching it with her.

However where she was on the edge of her seat over each category (Really? Sound mixing?), I was only really interested in the BIG moments such as Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Movie, and most steeply plunging neckline.

Of course unlike her father my daughter made it her mission to watch EVERY single one of the nominated movies. I think she missed like three or four, but she certainly saw all of the biggies.

So when the movies were announced in each category my daughter went through the same process. "Oh that one was so good it should win. But wait I loved that one too. Oh no this one is really the one that should take home the Oscar. Oh they all deserve to win, I can't decide."

And then when the winner was announced my daughter would leap from her chair and yell "Yes! This is the one I wanted to win!"

This happened every time, for every category, no I am not exaggerating.

So for those of you who did not spend your evening listening to bad jokes, fumbled pronunciations, and awkward award presentations, here is a list of the winners.

The top winners were "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Birdman" each with four Oscars. (Birdman also won for Best Picture.)

Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for "The Theory of Everything," and Julianne Moore won Best Actress for "Still Alice." (This was the only win that was punctuated with the sound of cans ricocheting off of a Wasilla refrigerator.)

As it turned out "American Sniper" only brought home one Oscar for Sound Editing which you know will result in all kinds of Right Wing conspiracy theories.

Now I don't want you to think that I did not find some enjoyable moments, because I really did.

For instance there was Common accepting the award for best original song for the movie "Selma." His speech was quite powerful and incredibly eloquent.

The same could be said for Patricia Arquette's acceptance speech for her Best Supporting Actress role in "Boyhood:" 

"To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," she said. "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America."

That was so good it made Meryl Streep react like this:

Definitely got the Meryl Streep and J-Lo seal of approval.

However just speaking for myself the best, and most unexpected moment, came when this happened.

Okay seriously, who knew Lady Gaga could sing like THAT?

And when Julie Andrews came out afterward I thought my daughter was going to collapse with joy.

So all in all it was a really fun evening, and I really enjoyed spending it with my insanely crazy about movies daughter.

And you know the best part? Well the best part is that they announced the Best Picture early enough so that I was able to quickly turn the channel afterward and watch everything but the first few minutes of "The Walking Dead." (You should have heard my daughter scream when I did that.)