No Oscar for Water

Deepa Mehta seemed pretty excited to have finally gotten a chance to walk over the red carpet. But her film Water did not win the Best Foreign Film which is not surprising as everyone had their bets on Pan’s Labyrinth.

However Guillermo Del Toro’s magical-realist fantasy was beaten by “The Lives of Others,” from Germany, which surprised many! The German director, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, thanked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California “for teaching me that the words ‘I can’t’ should be stricken from my vocabulary.”