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Oscar time came and went this week. What's everyone going to talk about now? Hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, the 68th Annual Academy Awards offered many surprises. No doubt about it ... it certainly was a pretty damn good night for Mel Gibson, who walked away with Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for his movie Braveheart. Mira Sorvino received the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mighty Aphrodite, while Kevin Spacey won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects. To no one's great surprise, Nicholas Cage claimed his well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor in Leaving Las Vegas. Awhhhh! We still remember him as that crazy dude in "Raizing Arizona," don't we? Susan Sarandon, orange, metallic dress, hair and all, took the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Dead Man Walking. And she's thanking Sean Penn for HIS hair? Sense and Sensibility, nominated seven times, only received one award -- Best Adapted Screenplay written by Emma Thompson. Well, guess we'll just have to wait around for another year. So far, we've got just so much to choose from ... uhhhhh, let's see ... "Ed" and uhhhh ... Good thing we've got a long way to go.

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish director and screenwriter known for his Blue, White and Red trilogy, died of a heart failure on March 13. Kieslowski received Oscar nominations for "Red," in both screenwriting and directing.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Eric Douglas (you know, "The Flamingo Kid"), son of Kirk and brother of Michael, was arrested at Newark Airport in New Jersey. Why, you ask? Well, let's just say that he verbally abused the flight attendant and refused to put his dog in a travel carrier. Let's just try real hard to picture this for a second: "Dammit, I said I wanted PRETZELS not peanuts, you stupid @!?//!#. Don't you know who my father is? And NO!!! Spot stays with me. Got that?"

Take a hike, said Sandra Bullock to her manager and lawyer on March 15. No clue why. Maybe she's been upset about her last bomb "Two If By Sea." That's reasonable. Bullock plans to put her talent in the hands of her very own father, John, an operatic voice coach. Yeah, you know, the dude she took to the Academy Awards on Monday.

-- Compiled by Daily Film Editor Jen Petlinski

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