This post-mortem Oscar week has been refreshingly low key, I have to say.  But then, maybe that's because I went and hid under a rock for a few days.  In any case, I'm back today because we're going out of business and it's time to wrap things up around these parts properly.  Let's start, naturally, with the year's final Oscarweb round-up:

•  Oscar nominated screenwriter Ronald Harwood ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") writes up his Oscar experience for the Times of London. [Times Online]

•  David Carr addresses the crystal clear disconnect between movie-going audiences and the annual Academy Awards ceremony in one of his final entries of the season. [The Carpetbagger]

•  Jeffrey Wells poo-poos the lack of prognosticating prowess of Movie City News' David Poland on the way to tooting his own horn (17 correct guesses, Wells made). [Hollywood Elsewhere]

•  Modest Millie over here seems to have had the better showing across the net, but who's counting? [In Contention]

•  Stu VanAirsdale continues his snooty perspective on the ceremony, this time going so far as to dryly mock Brad Renfro's death and exclusion from the In Memoriam montage. [Little Gold Men]

•  Accordingly, he's lept out of the (web) pages of Vanity Fair and into the arms of Defamer. [The Reeler]

•  New York Magazine wonders why Amy Adams got the original song performance shaft while Kristin Chenoweth was blessed with a lavish spectacle for her number. [Vulture]

•  Erik Davis asks the good people to suggest a new category to spice things up at the Oscars.  I still say Best Ensemble isn't asking too much. [Cinematical]

•  Lou Lumenick briefly tries his hand at reading the 2008 Oscar crystal ball. [New York Post]

•  And thanks to Ryan Adams, ou can give your own vote on the upcoming year's most likely candidates. [Awards Daily]

•  Reed Johnson digs into the heavy nature of the Coen brothers' Oscar winning work this year. [The Envelope]

•  Pete Hammond, meanwhile, closes down the season with a hint of perspective on the ratings of the Oscars.  He says the show pulls in viewers "that would be the envy of any other awards show."  Touché. [The Envelope]

•  Patrick Goldstein writes the easy column, that being a "let's give the Oscars a face lift because they're showing their age" spin on things that could have been applicable to any of the last dozen or so ceremonies. [Los Angeles Times]

•  Tom O'Neil writes up a response. [Gold Derby]

•  Anthony Breznican cranked out a delicious backstage account of the ceremony's goings-on that, I'm ashamed to say, I didn't see until today. [USA Today]

•  And in case you missed it, our own Brian Lowery writes up a review of the 3 hour, 21 minute ceremony here at home base. [Variety]