Monday, March 09, 2015

3rd Annual Academy Awards Party

Well this post is about three weeks late, but let's pretend that it's not.

I've been looking forward to the 87th Academy Awards for months, but mostly because I would be hosting my third Oscars party! Last year, I wrote that I had a lot of ideas for the next party, but if I wrote them down, I have no idea where I put them. Hopefully some of the new things we did this year were my ideas from last year. Who knows!


This year, I took to Facebook to send out the invite since almost everyone who was invited was on Facebook, so I didn't do another cool invite like last year. But we stuck with the same idea for food as last year: food inspired by the 9 Best Picture nominees.

American Sniper
hummus with pita & veggies
Much of the movie takes place in the Middle East and hummus seems to be our go-to for the last three years of movies about conflict in the Middle East.

Birdman
bird-shaped sugar cookies
The only food shown in the movie (to my recollection) was deli meat dipped in mayo and since we needed another dessert, I just went with sugar cookies.

Boyhood
mac & cheese
The perfect side dish that evokes memories from everyone's childhood.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
petit fours
Agatha bakes lots of pretty cakes throughout the movie.

The Imitation Game
cucumber sandwiches
Alan states early in the movie that he doesn't like sandwiches, so later on a coworker steals his cucumber sandwich from his picnic.

Selma
shrimp & grits
We needed some down-home southern cookin'!

The Theory of Everything
steak with potatoes & broccoli
Many scenes revolve around dinner, where Stephen struggles to feed himself or must be fed by someone else.

Whiplash
drumsticks
Duh, it's a movie about drumming.


I also had chocolate Oscar statues as favors again this year, but instead of buying them, I made them using a mold (from here).

We had a giant ballot (printable from here) and ballots for guests to fill out. If you wanted a chance to win, you could buy a ballot for $2 and the winner took home the pot. I ended up winning.


We had acceptance speech mad libs and photobooth props (from here) to pass the time since most people don't want to sit down and watch a 3+ hour award show!


I also bought a black and gold tassle garland (from here) and we went to the local fabric store to get some red fabric--on sale--to serve as our red carpet!



My picks for Best Dressed:


Anna Kendrick in Thakoon
Zoe Saldana in Versace
Jennifer Lopez in Elie Saab
Rosamund Pike in Givenchy
Reese Witherspoon in Tom Ford

1 comment:

  1. Love the garland and red carpet! I always have an Oscar's party, so I am saving this for the future!

    Meg of An Affair of Character

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