Overall, I was happy with the Academy Awards. “No Country for Old Men” took Best Picture, Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor, and Javier Bardem got Best Supporting Actor, all of which I felt were well-deserved.

However, I personally would have been happier if “There Will Be Blood” had taken Best Picture. In fact, if I had my way, “Blood” would have won every award, including Best Original Song, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Special Effects.

In the Best Adapted Screenplay category, it would have been very difficult for “Blood” to win, as P.T. Anderson (the writer/director) very loosely stuck to Upton Sinclair’s “Oil!” (the novel on which the film was based) and extracted only certain characters from the novel, making it hardly an adaptation at all. The novel of “No Country,” however, reads like a screenplay (Cormac McCarthy never enters the characters’ heads; he simply describes what’s going on), so it was an easy adaptation that deserved the award.

I was more disappointed with the lesser categories. Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction should have gone to “Blood.” When I saw the film (both times), I really felt like I was being transported back to that era—that I was seeing the silver-mining shanties and the prospector’s wrinkled, dirty period clothes as if they were right in front of me. Instead the award for Best Costume Design went to “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” for which the costume designer simply had to mimic the extravagant and intricate outfits of the day And the award for Best Art Direction went to “The Golden Compass,” another crappy fantasy movie.

In these categories, I felt the Academy simply chose the most over-the-top, overlooking the simple yet powerful details that can suck the viewer into a film.

And more on the crappy fantasy films subject —what’s with all the crappy fantasy films?! Apparently, the Academy thinks that creating CGI giant alien robots battling in a ruined New York City isn’t as hard as making a CGI polar bear. I do not think “The Golden Compass” deserved the Best Special Effects Award over “Transformers,” which should also have won the Oscar for Best Sound that went to “The Bourne Ultimatum.” It’s just action movie sound effects: kicks and punches and gunshots and car crashes! They should have just given the Oscar to “Commando”!

Lastly but apparently not least likely to win, “Juno” took the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. In all fairness, Diablo Cody captured teen pregnancy and its effects pretty well, although she forgot to cover how it tears apart families, how the teen often drops out of school, and how having a baby in high school often ruins your life forever.

But at least it was still funny. Actually no, it wasn’t.