Selected winners at the 76th annual Academy Awards: Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Directing: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn - Mystic River Actress in a Leading Role: Charlize Theron - Monster
Ridiculous - Juxtaposition with the sublime. 1  The ridiculous is sometimes contrasted to the sublime where something with one quality is thought of as approaching, or likely to change to, the other.
In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the universe. 1  As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma.