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.
Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows, is implied by 1580s; hence gaunt, ridiculous person (1590s).