Oscar Yays!: “Falling Slowly”

Congratulations to Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for winning the Oscar for Best Song for “Falling Slowly” from Once.

If you haven’t seen it, run out right now and do it.

Beautiful.

In a sweet aside, the NYT’s Carpetbagger blog reports the following about Glen, post-Oscar:

Hansard was effusive, in back, including walking into the press room and saying, “I just got a text from Bono. That is the biggest thing in the world that can happen to an Irishman.”

Read Glen and Marketa’s story HERE