AFTER the excitement of last week and the proposal, there is no super secret to keep. I am trying to remember if something has happened like this before. If it did it was years ago and I have no record of it. Does anyone remember?

No films watched again this week – the busyness has continued. Shaun the Sheep Movie has given Fifty Shades of Grey a real run for the audience and indeed eclipsed it over the weekend.

Today is the last EE Wednesday – the very last one ever.

The Oscars were much reported and we were all very pleased that Eddie Redmayne added to his Bafta with the Oscar for Best Actor, playing the living legend that is Professor Stephen Hawking.

It was a brave part to play, but done so sensitively, I thought, and the story was from wife Jane’s angle.

I do think that Eddie Redmayne has come to the fore in a similar way that Michael Sheen did for me when he played Tony Blair in The Queen. I hope that Eddie’s career carries on and goes stellar. Benedict Cumberbatch was also nominated for Best Actor in his role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

For me the two performances were both excellent and challenging. Playing a living legend with all the difficulties he had to portray possibly put Eddie Redmayne a tiny bit ahead in my opinion.

What a lovely and clearly genuine acceptance speech he gave too just dissolving into “Wow”, how very British!

The Best Actress went to Julianne Moore for her role as Alice Howland, diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

From the book of the same name, the film story chronicles the disaster that befalls Alice and her family. Julianne Moore is always great in any part and I am sure we will see a brilliant film when it is released next month. Moore also won a Bafta as we know for this film.

The Oscar for Best Film went to Birdman, starring Michael Keaton. The trailer looked better after I had heard the results of the Oscars, so who knows, we may yet play it and see why it was so popular.

The upset in the Powell household was that the Oscar for Best Costume Design went to Grand Budapest Hotel and not to Into the Woods.

Well we are partisan and it would have been fun to have had the family association with an Oscar through my daughter.

Films from Friday

The much-awaited The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) is with us from Friday. Joined by a slick American (Richard Gere), this time it looks like it is going to be another brilliant film following on from the first. The Boy Next Door (15) is a torrid tale of a recently-divorced woman and the young man she falls for across the street, which takes a dangerous turn.

Fifty Shades of Grey (18 and number one in the top 10) carries on for another week one show a day.

Big Hero 6 (PG and yet again number two in the top 10) continues at the weekend as does Shaun the Sheep Movie (U and yet again number three in the top 10). We still have not had time to watch either of them.

Paddington (PG) will also be around for the weekend for a little longer.

Selma (12A), Kingsman: The Secret Service (15 and number four in the top 10) continues one show a day on Friday and Monday to Thursday next week.

Theory of Everything (12A and number eight in the top 10), with its Oscar now justly for the Best Actor, carries likewise in staying on Friday and Monday to Thursday.

Live stage productions

Love’s Labour’s Won, the second part from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, is live next Wednesday. There are a few seats still available towards the front.

After this it is NT Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (15). The certificate has changed for this production. Meera Syal stars in this play on Thursday, March 12, at 7pm. After this we have a ballet – ROH Ballet Live: Swan Lake (12A), which is already sold-out, I am afraid. Then we have the very exciting production with Maxine Peake as Hamlet (12A). It is sold-out for the performance on Monday, March 23, but we do have a number of seats available for the encore performance on Sunday, April 19.

We do have some seats for NT Live: A View from the Bridge (12A). Mark Strong is drawing people in for this production in the Young Vic’s “magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold” production of A View from the Bridge.

Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. A View from the Bridge plays live on Thursday, March 26.

A production I have not mentioned before is ROH Live Opera: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (12A). Three criminals on the run find they can go no further.

The destitute and the disenchanted flock to city of gold, Mahagonny, among them the prostitute Jenny and the lumberjack Jim Mahoney with his three friends.

The city swells with debauchery. Jim and Jenny try to escape, but find themselves still in Mahagonny. Jim is arrested and convicted of myriad crimes – chief among them a lack of money, punishable by death. He is executed and the city burns.

There are plenty of seats available for this production whose cast includes Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White and Christine Riceon. It takes place on Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm.