In about 15 minutes, the 84th Annual Academy Awards will broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, hosted once again by Billy Crystal. Right now, the blogger of this blog is watching ABC's live Red Carpet coverage, which is winding down. And like the other times, this blog will be updated during the commercial breaks.
8:16PM- Actors being asked whom they are rooting for...
8:26PM- Well, it's about time, so I'm excited. It's Oscar night, and I've got my water and candy right beside me. Not leaving my seat, except during the commercials.
8:29PM- It's Time!
8:30PM- Morgan Freeman kicks the show off. "This magnificent event enables us to look at the present and acknowledge the past."
8:31PM- And like the eight other times in Oscar history, so it begins, the Billy Crystal Oscar open, first with The Artist, then The Descendants
8:31PM- "Say, I'm Batman. Hit me."
8:32PM- Next up, Moneyball...then, it's Midnight in Paris, where Justin Bieber gives Billy Crystal "the 18-24 demographic". "We're going to hang out with Hemingway and Fitzgerald...", "...and then we're going to kill Hitler."
8:33PM- The Help, followed by Bridesmaids' and their scenes of excrement
8:34PM- "Are you sure this is a Scorsese movie? Nobody's going to watch it." Hugo (taken to Mission: Impossible 3D)
8:35PM- Billy rides the coattails of the film reel through the green screen to the Kodak Theatre.
8:36PM- "That was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close..."- Billy Crystal, about the applause
8:37PM- "This is my 9th time hosting the Oscars, just call me War Horse."; "Welcome to the Chapter 11 Theatre."- Billy Crystal
8:38PM- "It's a Wonderful Night for Oscar"...first "The Artist" (parody of I Won't Dance), then "War Horse" (parody of Mr. Ed), then "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", then "Moneyball"..."They're serving cupcakes after the show", then "Hugo" (parody of That's Amore), then "The Tree of Life"..."I even heard it freaked out God", followed by "The Descendants" (parody of the Hawaiian War Dance), then "Midnight in Paris" (parody of The Last Time I Saw Paris", then "The Help".
8:41PM- Tom Hanks presents the first award of the Oscar night, but not before acknowledging a 59-year Oscar seat holder veteran named Carl.
8:42PM- Hanks presents the First Two Awards of the night, first up Cinematography.
8:43PM- Robert Richardson wins the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for "Hugo", previously winning for "JFK" and "The Aviator".
8:43PM- "I can't believe somebody put Cinematography first. You can only go up."- Robert Richardson, three-time winning Cinematographer
8:44PM- Art Direction is the next category.
8:45PM- Hugo wins the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Production Designer Dante Ferretti and Set Decorator Francesca Lo Schiovo.
8:46PM- Musicians playing in the balcony area taking us to the first Commercial Break.
8:50PM- "Welcome back to the 'Your Name Here' Theatre."- Billy Crystal
8:51PM- A clip show of past films: Forrest Gump, Titanic, LEgends of the Fall, The Princess Bride, Avatar, Amelie, Ghost, Jaws I, Apollo 13, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Hangover, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Arthur, Shawshank Redemption, Austin Powers, Something About Mary, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, French Connection, A Few Good Men, Star Wars, E.T., Raging Bull, Midnight Cowboy, When Harry Met Sally
8:53PM- "Please welcome a recurring dream of mine, Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz."- Billy Crystal
8:54PM- Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz present the Oscar for Best Costume Design, won a record eight times by Edith Head.
8:55PM- Mark Bridges win the Oscar for Achievement in Costume Design for "The Artist".
8:56PM- Lopez and Diaz are also presenting the Makeup Oscar, where there are three nominees.
8:57PM- The Makeup team from "The Iron Lady", Mark Coulier and Roy Helland wins the Academy Award for Achievement in Makeup.
8:58PM- "Thanks, Meryl for keeping me employed for the last 37 years."- Roy Helland
8:59PM- Interviews of Actors (including 11-time Razzie nominee this year Adam Sandler) about the movies.
9:00PM- "In the end, the good Gargantuan had to sacrifice himself to defeat the bad Gargantuan."- Brad Pitt (in the interview package)
9:01PM- No Baseball film has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture. Moneyball is the first baseball film since "Field of Dreams" to be a Best Picture nominee.
9:02PM- Commercial Break
9:05PM- Sandra Bullock presents the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
9:06PM- Sandra Bullock says something in Mandarin Chinese.
9:07PM- From Iran, "A Separation" wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Iran's first Academy Award in this category.
9:08PM- "You'll get to choose one on Super Tuesday..."- Billy Crystal
9:09PM- Defending Supporting Actor champ (and Batman) Christian Bale presents the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Four of the five nominees are first-times.
9:11PM- Octavia Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mississippi maid Minnie in "The Help", one of four first-time nominees in this category this year, and the third African-American in the last six years to win in this race.
9:14PM- Balcony musicians...again. "The Artist" is the first silent film to be nominated for Best Picture since 1928, and only the fourth Black & White film to be nominated for Best Picture since 1967.
9:15PM- Commercial Break
9:18PM- "Footage of 'Wizard of Oz' Focus Group" with the Christopher Guest film actors.
9:19PM- "I was somewhat perplexed."
9:20PM- "I loved the Flying Monkeys...if you can teach a monkey to fly, you can teach a monkey to talk."
9:20PM- "I didn't particularly care for the Rainbow song."
9:21PM- Catherine O'Hara sings a lyric of the parody of "Over the Rainbow".
9:21PM- They will be screening "Gone With the Wind" "next week".
9:22PM- "You're a lucky girl. He's a very good kisser."- Billy Crystal (to Stacy Kiebler on George Clooney)
9:22PM- Tina Fey & Bradley Cooper present the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing.
9:23PM- Last year's winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall return for seconds, winning the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing.
9:24PM- Angus: "Let's get out of here." Kirk: "We're editors. Thank you."
9:24PM- Cooper and Fey are also presenting the Oscar for Sound Editing.
9:25PM- Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty win the Oscar for Sound Editing for "Hugo".
9:26PM- "If I forgot anyone, you know who you are..."- Stockton.
9:27PM- Cooper and Fey make it three categories in a row as they are also presenting the Oscar for Sound Mixing.
9:28PM- "Hugo" wins its fourth Oscar of the night, this time for Sound Mixing for Sound Mixers Tom Fleischman and John Midgley.
9:29PM- Commercial Break. Cirque du Soleil is coming up after the Commercial Break.
9:33PM- Kermit T. Frog and his lovely bride Miss Piggy
9:34PM- "It's time Spielberg left some for the rest of us. How many Oscars does he need?"- Miss Piggy
9:35PM- Cirque du Soleil does their interpretation of "What Is It Like To Go To The Movies?"
9:38PM- So that's what it's like to go to the movies?
9:38PM- "Wow. I pulled a hamstring just watching it. We've got puppets, acrobats...we're just a pony away from being a Bar Mitzvah."- Billy Crystal; "He may be walking on the stage, just because he wanders off." (about Christopher Plummer); "When my grandfather was 82, we didn't allow him to go to the movies."
9:40PM- "84 and timeless, but the show isn't, so let's move on."
9:40PM- Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. present the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
9:40PM- Gwyneth: "What are you doing here?"; Robert: "I'm filming a documentary, 'The Presenter'."
9:43PM- "Undefeated" (not the Sarah Palin one, but I thought it was) wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, and Rich Middlemas.
9:44PM- And the trio gets cut off.
9:45PM- Past Oscar host Chris Rock presents the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.
9:46PM- "Rango", directed by Gore Verbinski, win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
9:47PM- "It was created by a bunch of grown-ups acting like children."- Gore Verbinski (about Rango) in his acceptance speech
9:48PM- Northern Ireland, France, Canada, Argentina, England, Mexico, and the United States represent the nations of our 20 acting nominees.
9:49PM- Commercial Break
9:52PM- Melissa McCarthy blocks Billy Crystal from the backstage door. Meanwhile, Emma Stone and Ben Stiller present the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
9:52PM- "This is my first time presenting an Academy Award."- Emma Stone (acting airy)
9:53PM- "We should have banter, where you act cocky..."- Stone (and she's taller than Ben)
9:56PM- The team from "Hugo"- Alex Hemmings, Rod Legato, Joss Williams, and Len Grossman, wins the Academy Award for Visual Effects.
9:57PM- "This is the year we said goodbye to Harry Potter. He made $ 7.7 Billion, and he only paid 14 percent income tax."- Billy Crystal
9:58PM- Last year's Supporting Actress winner Melissa Leo presents the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
10:00PM- Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest Academy Award winner, winning for Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners". (Plummer receives a standing ovation)
10:01PM- "You're only two years older than me, but where you've been all my life...when I came out of my mother's womb, I've been practicing my acceptance speech."- Christopher Plummer, accepting his Oscar
10:03PM- Commercial Break (and more balcony musicians), then after that are the two Music categories- Score and Song.
10:07PM- "What's on their mind?" (Brad Pitt has six parent-teacher conferences in the meaning, Morgan Freeman narrating, George Clooney: "Billy didn't tell me that this kiss was being filmed", camera on Scorsese, Viola Davis: "I want to thank the writers for creating a strong, powerful black woman not being played by Tyler Perry", Peppy: "If I had him, I'd lick him." (What people are thinking)
10:09PM- A word from the Academy President Tom Sherak.
10:10PM- "Thank you for sharing our love for the movies."- Tom Sherak
10:10PM- "Thank you, Tom, and thank you for whipping the crowd into a frenzy."- Billy Crystal
10:12PM- Penelope Cruz and Owen Wilson present the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
10:13PM- Ludovic Bource wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score for composing the score/dialogue to The Artist.
10:15PM- Will Ferrell and Zach Galiafanakis (with cymbals) proceed up to the stage to present the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Get your coins ready for the coin toss (there are only two nominees, remember?)
10:16PM- "One of our nominees will join the ranks of songs such as..."
10:17PM- **Coin Flip** (and cymbals dropping) Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords fame) wins the Academy Award for writing "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets.
10:18PM- "If you get to meet (Kermit), he's nice in real life, and like everybody else, he's shorter in real life."- Bret McKenzie
10:19PM- Candy girls pass out popcorns as we head to another break. Nine SNL cast members (Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Downey Jr., Joan Cusack, Michael McKean, Randy Quaid, George Coe, and the first SNL cast member to receive a nod while on the show, Kristen Wiig) past and present have been Oscar nominees. Will Kristen Wiig be the first to win one? Adapted and Original Screenplay up next, after, yup, you guessed it...Another Commercial Break.
10:24PM- "Please welcome the Original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Angelina Jolie."- Billy Crystal
10:24PM- Angelina Jolie presents the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay.
10:27PM- Alexander Payne, Matt Faxon, and Jim Rash win the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for "The Descendants". Payne won seven years ago for writing "Sideways".
10:27PM- "We bow to our fellow nominees."- Alexander Payne
10:28PM- Jolie also is presenting the Original Screenplay category.
10:29PM- Woody Allen (who is not here, obviously) wins the Academy Award for writing "Midnight in Paris".
10:30PM- Another interview Q&A defining "What Makes a Great Film".
10:31PM- "I just really wanna watch some sick stuff."- Sacha Baron Cohen
10:31PM- "I don't know if I'm gonna get there."- Adam Sandler, nominated for as many Golden Raspberry Award nominations as Hugo has Oscar nominations for Best Picture
10:32PM- Commercial Break, then the three shorts categories.
10:36PM- Milla Jovovich recaps the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Awards.
10:37PM- The Bridesmaids (too many to name: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McClendon-Covey) present the three Short categories. First up, Wiig and Rudolph present Live Action.
10:40PM- "The Shore", produced by Terry and Orlagh George, shot and produced in Northern Ireland, wins the Academy Award for Live Action Short.
10:41PM- Byrne and McCarthy present the Documentary Short Subject. (**Someone yells Scorsese**)
10:42PM- "Saving Face" (produced by Daniel Junge and Charmeen Obaid-Chubay) wins the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.
10:44PM- McClendon-Covey and Kemper present the Animated Short Film.
10:45PM- "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mister Morris Lessmore" wins the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg.
10:46PM- Will Scorsese win his second Oscar for Best Director? Or will the Director's Guild winner take the Directing Oscar for the 58th time in 64 years? Find out...after the Commercial Break.
10:49PM- "Our next presenter was occupying Wall Street before it was cool, please welcome two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas."- Billy Crystal introducing Michael Douglas, who is presenting the Best Director Academy Award.
10:52PM- Michel Hazanavicius wins the Academy Award for Best Director, making it the 58th time in 64 years that the DGA winner has won the covetous Best Director Oscar. Tom Hooper, pass the rubber stamp to Michel Hazanavicius.
10:54PM- "14 times, she's had to sit there, pretending to act thrilled when somebody else wins."- Billy Crystal on Meryl Streep who is presenting the Governor's Award winners, who are Oprah Winfrey (Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award), James Earl Jones (Honorary Oscar), and makeup artist Dick Smith (The Godfather, The Exorcist, Amadeus; Honorary Oscar).
10:57PM- James Earl Jones, Dick Smith, and Oprah Winfrey receive a standing ovation.
10:58PM- Balcony time once more, you know what that means....Memoriam is next, then the final three categories. Will Meryl finally get off the schneid after 29 years, or will the streak continue?
11:02PM- Billy Crystal leads the Memoriam, which includes Gil Cates, whom produced 14 Oscar ceremonies, including six with Billy, and Laura Ziskin, another Oscar producer; Jane Russell, Annie Girardot, John Calley, Polly Platt, Ken Russell, Donald Peterman, Farley Granger, Whitney Houston, Bingham Ray, Tak Migashima, Burt Schneider, Michael Cocoyannis, David Z. Goodman, James Robmunsky, Peter E. Berger, Jack J. Hayes, Peter Falk, Cliff Robertson, Laura Ziskin, Sidney Lumet, Sue Mengers, Steve Jobs, George Kuchar, Hal Kanter, Theodoria Van Runkle, Tim Hetherington, Gene Cantamesse, Gary Vinick, Bill Varney, Jackie Cooper, Gilbert Cates, Richard Leacock, James M. Roberts, Marion Doughtery, Norman Corwin, Paul John Haggar, Joseph Farrell, Ben Gazzara, and Elizabeth Taylor were among the industry professionals in front of and behind the camera that we lost this past year. Esperanza Spalding sings "What a Wonderful World" (with the Southern California children's choir).
11:07PM- Commercial Break
11:12PM- "I never had any of those feelings."- Billy Crystal, about the short films during the Oscars
11:13PM- "Our next presenter is what little girls want to be when they grow up- smart, beautiful, and a murderous ballerina."- Billy Crystal introducing defending Best Actress champ Natalie Portman, presenting the Best Actor Oscar.
11:13PM- Natalie Portman presents the Best Actor Oscar.
11:18PM- Jean Dujardin dances his way to victory. Jean Dujardin wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "The Artist".
11:19PM- "Tickets were five dollars, and the ceremony lasted fifteen minutes..." (the first Oscar ceremony, hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in 1929)- Jean Dujardin (in his acceptance speech)
11:20PM- Balcony time again, up next Colin Firth presents the Best Actress Oscar, and Tom Cruise the Oscar for Best Picture. But, until then, one final commercial break.
11:22PM- Angel hair pasta, green tea, sausage, and Bill Cosby's favorite dessert, Jell-O pudding were this blogger's main dinner fare. At the Oscar after parties, they'll be having more fancier feasts.
11:23PM- "In France, they must be going nuts right now."- Billy Crystal
11:23PM- Last year's Best Actor winner, Colin Firth presents the Best Actress Oscar.
11:24PM- Will Meryl get off the schneid, or will it be Viola's night?
11:26PM- "Meryl, Mamma mia. We danced, it was gay. I may have fathered your daughter."- Colin Firth
11:29PM- "The Streak Is OVER!!!!!!!!" For the first time since 1983, Meryl and Oscar meet. Meryl Streep wins the Academy Award for her role as The Iron Lady (Margaret Thatcher).
11:30PM- "Oh, my God!!! When I heard her name, I kinda heard half of America, saying, 'Oh, no, why her, not again.'"
11:31PM- "I really want to thanks, because I'll probably never be up here again..."- Meryl Streep
11:31PM- "For this inexplicably wonderful career, thank you so much."- Meryl Streep
11:32PM- Tom Cruise presents the final award of the night...Best Picture. Nine films nominated. Eight will lose. Which lucky film will join the ranks of Patton, Forrest Gump, The King's Speech, Rocky, and West Side Story? Can The Artist be the first silent film since Wings to win the Best Picture Oscar? Find out after this Best Picture montage. The Artist, The Descendants, Midnight in Paris, Hugo, The Help, War Horse, The Tree of Life, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Moneyball are the nine films up for Best Picture
11:35PM- The Academy Award for Best Picture goes to...The Artist (Thomas Langmann, producer).
11:36PM- The Artist was the Only one of the nine Best Picture nominees filmed entirely in Los Angeles. The Artist is the first black and white film since Schindler's List to win the Best Picture Oscar, and the first film entirely shot in black and white since The Apartment to win the Best Picture Oscar, and most importantly, the first silent film since the very first Best Picture winner, Wings, to win this Oscar.
11:37PM- "I would like to thank three people. I would like to thank Billy Wilder, I would like to thank Billy Wilder, and I would like to thank Billy Wilder. Thank you very much."- Michel Hazanavicius during the Best Picture acceptance speech
11:38PM- "That's our evening, everybody! Good night, everybody!"- Billy Crystal, closing out the Oscars, which are running almost ten minutes over.
The Academy Awards were produced by Don Mischer and Emmy (24, Arrested Development) and Oscar (A Beautiful Mind) winning producer Brian (with an "I") Grazer. Billy Crystal created "The Focus Group" sketch.
The Artist and Hugo are tied with five Oscar wins, the most for any film. Like last year, there was a tie for the most wins. The Iron Lady went 2-for-2.
Tomorrow night (February 27th), a recap of the Oscars on The DJBC Happy Hour...LIVE (yup, LIVE!) at 8PM EST on WCRS, a low-power FM in Columbus, Ohio. If you don't live in the Columbus area, you can listen in live on http://www.wcrsfm.org (or listen to it later in the week, if there are technical glitches that are beyond our control).
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The 84th Annual Academy Award Nominations
This morning, the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards are being announced from the Academy's Headquarters at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Hollywood by Academy President Tom Sherak and one of last year's nominees, Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone).
Last night on The DJBC Happy Hour, I gave my final predictions on who would get nominated, who might get nominated, and what surprises there could be.
**The average age of an Academy member is over 60.**
"Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood."
New this year, there will be between 5 and 10 nominees for Best Picture.
**Fanfare**
8:38AM- Let the show begin.
Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Best Supporting Actor:
Sir Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
Nick Nolte (Warrior)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Max Von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Best Actress:
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Viola Davis (The Help)
Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Best Actor:
Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Best Director:
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
Original Screenplay:
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
A Separation
Adapted Screenplay:
The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Foreign Language Film:
Bollhead (Belgium)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)
Animated Feature:
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots 2
Rango
Best Picture:
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
(9 Best Picture Nominees)
Last night on The DJBC Happy Hour, I gave my final predictions on who would get nominated, who might get nominated, and what surprises there could be.
**The average age of an Academy member is over 60.**
"Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood."
New this year, there will be between 5 and 10 nominees for Best Picture.
**Fanfare**
8:38AM- Let the show begin.
Best Supporting Actress:
Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Best Supporting Actor:
Sir Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
Nick Nolte (Warrior)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Max Von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Best Actress:
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Viola Davis (The Help)
Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Best Actor:
Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Best Director:
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
Original Screenplay:
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Margin Call
Midnight in Paris
A Separation
Adapted Screenplay:
The Descendants
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Foreign Language Film:
Bollhead (Belgium)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)
Animated Feature:
A Cat in Paris
Chico and Rita
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots 2
Rango
Best Picture:
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
(9 Best Picture Nominees)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards- LIVE Reactions
Just minutes away from Anne Hathaway and Best Actor nominee James Franco hosting the 83rd Annual Academy Awards from the Kodak Theater. Let's watch the Red Carpet pre-show.
8:12PM- About 17 Minutes Away; ABC's Robin Roberts is interviewing Best Actress nominee Nicole Kidman (wearing Christian Dior) with Keith Urban
8:13PM- Tim Gunn is interviewing Gwyneth Paltrow (wearing ??), who is performing "Coming Home" from Country Strong. Gwyneth wants to duet with Jay-Z, because he's a "Genius".
8:14PM- Robin is interviewing Best Supporting Actor nominee Christian Bale, the front-runner to win for "The Fighter". **15 Minutes Away**
8:18PM- One of next year's Razzie Nominees, perhaps- Matt Damon and Roger Sterling in "The Adjustment Bureau"...the ads have been played to death. Transformers 3 was introduced during the Super Bowl...yikes.
8:22PM- Robin Roberts interviews past Oscar and Tony host Hugh Jackman. Couldn't they have gotten him to host if both Anne and James suck?
8:23PM- James Franco is up for Best Actor. When was the last time an acting nominee hosted the Oscar ceremony?
8:23PM- Favorite Acceptance Speeches: Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (Best Actor) and Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful (Foreign Language Film)
8:24PM- Halle Berry is being interviewed wearing a Mark Hazel gown.
8:26PM- Robin Roberts interviews Tom Hanks, who is handing out the first award of the night.
8:32PM- James & Anne tell Leo DiCaprio that they will go into Alec Baldwin's dreams ("Inception")
8:33PM- James & Anne walk in and out of "The Social Network" and meet up with "The Fighter"
8:34PM- James (in a bear suit) & Anne now both have True Grit;
8:35PM- "The Naked Girl from 'Love and Other Drugs' and the guy from 'General Hospital' continute on through Alec Baldwin's dreams."
8:35PM- "News from the future- microphones get smaller."- Anne Hathaway (dressed up in 1930s attire)
8:36PM- In and out of dance rehearsal for "Black Swan" and now they meet up with Alec Baldwin; "A dream inside two other dreams, you just got Inception-ed."
8:37PM- James and Anne ride the Back to the Future car to get to the Academy Awards...and HERE THEY ARE! (applause, applause)
8:38PM- "Omigosh, you're all real."- Anne Hathaway (really, Anne, really?)
8:39PM- "It used to be, you get naked, you get nominated. But, not anymore."- Anne Hathaway
8:40PM- "Stand up straight. Steven Spielberg's here."- Anne Hathaway's mother
8:40PM- "I just saw Marky Mark."- James Franco's grandmother
8:41PM- "No, it's Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg."- Franco
8:41PM- "This has been a great year for lesbians in film."- Anne Hathaway; references to Black Swan (dancing lesbians), The Kids Are All Right and Toy Story 3 ("Where's the Dad?")
8:42PM- A look back at Gone With the Wind. Tom Hanks is presenting the first two awards of the night- Art Direction and Cinematography.
8:42PM- "Gone with the Wind was the first film to win for Best Picture, Cinematography, and Art Direction." Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story, and Schindler's List, and most recently, Titanic also pulled this tri-fecta.
8:43PM- 3 Films are up for All three Awards; Up first, Nominees for Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter..., (the three films as Tom mentioned) Inception, The King's Speech, and True Grit.
8:44PM- The first Oscar of the Night goes to the team of Alice in Wonderland. Which officially means that this aforementioned tri-fecta WON'T HAPPEN AT ALL.
8:46PM- Nominees for Cinematography: Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech, The Social Network, and True Grit.
8:47PM- The second Oscar of the Night of the night goes to Wally Pfister, for his Cinematography of Inception. Roger Deakins (the cinematographer for the Coens Brothers films) loses again.
8:48PM- Best Supporting Actress is coming up next...who will win? Jacki Weaver? Hailee Steinfeld? Amy Adams? Melissa Leo? Helena Bonham Carter?
8:51PM- 94 year-young Kirk Douglas comes to the stage in a standing ovation to present Best Supporting Actress.
8:53PM- Supporting Actress Nominees- Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), and 14 year-old Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
8:55PM- "Colin Firth is not laughing. He's British."- Kirk Douglas
8:56PM- "I will never forget this moment. I've been nominated here three times, and I lost all three times. Everyone is still laughing."- Kirk Douglas
8:57PM- And the Oscar goes to...Melissa Leo for "The Fighter".
8:58PM- "Pinch me...is it mine?"- Melissa Leo; "You were much more beautiful that in 'The Fighter.'- Kirk Douglas; "You're much more good looking."- Melissa Leo (Leo and Douglas flirting with each other)
8:59PM- "Golly, I am so speechless...when I watched Kate two years ago, it was so ******** hard."- Melissa Leo
9:00PM- "Thank you Academy. It's about selling the motion pictures and doing the work. Thank you so much!"- Melissa Leo
9:01PM- "I thought 'F' stood for 'The Fighter'"- Anne Hathaway
9:02PM- Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake present the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short; "I'm pretty sure they have an app for that."- Justin Timberlake
9:03PM- Can "Toy Story 3" be beat?
9:03PM- Animated Short Nominees: Day and Night, The Gruffalo, Let's Pollute, The Lost Thing, and Madagascar: Carnet de Voyage
9:04PM- The Oscar Goes to...The Lost Thing (Best Animated Short)
9:05PM- Animated Feature Nominees: How to Train a Dragon, The Illusionist, and Toy Story 3
9:06PM- The Oscar Goes for Best Animated Feature goes to...the REAL Best Picture of the Year- Toy Story 3. (the award goes to director Lee Unkrich, who is also up for Adapted Screenplay).
9:07PM- "The most awesome place on the planet to make movies."- Lee Unkrich (on Pixar, citing the Toy Story I creators)
9:08PM- Coming up, Original Screenplay. Who will win- The King's Speech? The Kids Are All Right? The Fighter? Inception? Another Year?
9:09PM- The last Oscar nominee to host was Paul Hogan in 1987 (Hogan was up for penning Crocodile Dundee). The last acting nominee to host was Jeff Bridges in 1985 (up for Starman). The only acting nominee to win was David Niven, who hosted the 1959 Academy Awards.
9:12PM- Back again. The first Oscar ceremony was hosted at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1928.
9:13PM- Josh Brolin and Best Actor nominee Javier Bardem (dressed in dapper white on white) present both Screenplay categories.
9:14PM- The Adapted Screenplay nominees: 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, and Winter's Bone
9:14PM- The Oscar Goes To....Aaron Sorkin for "The Social Network"- Aaron's first Oscar win and nomination (he was SNUBBED for "A Few Good Men")
9:15PM- "It was impossible to win an award that Paddy Chayefsky won 35 years ago with the word 'Network' in it."- Aaron Sorkin
9:15PM- "I wrote this movie, but David Fincher directed this movie with an unsightful godliness."- Aaron Sorkin
9:16PM- music is getting harder ("Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award, I expect to see some respect from your guinea pig."- Aaron Sorkin)
9:17PM- Original Screenplay Nominees- Another Year, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, and The King's Speech
9:18PM- And the Original Screenplay Oscar goes to...David Seidler for penning The King's Speech (all of them, hehe...)
9:18PM- "The Writer's Speech, this is terrifying. My father always said to me, I would always be a late bloomer. I believe I am the oldest person to win this Academy Award. I hope that record is broken quickly and often."- David Seidler, accepting his Oscar ("There are so many people and they are telling me to 'wrap up' now.") Seidler also acknowledges those who stutter.
9:20PM- Best Supporting Actor is up after the next break. Who will win? Geoffrey Rush? Mark Ruffalo? John Hawkes? Jeremy Renner? or Christian Bale?
9:24PM- Up now, Anne sings a parody of "On My Own" from Les Miserables.
9:25PM- James Franco dressed in drag. ("I just got a text message from Charlie Sheen."- James Franco)
9:26PM- Russell Brand and Dame Helen Mirren present Best Foreign Language Film.
9:26PM- The Nominees are: Biutiful (Mexico), Dogtooth (Greece), In a Better World (Denmark), Incendies (Canada), and Outside the Law (Algeria).
9:27PM- The Oscar goes to...In a Better World (Denmark), Susanna Bier, producer. This won the Golden Globe, and is Denmark's third Oscar win for Foreign Language Film.
9:28PM- "This is a real Oscar..."- Susanna Bier, accepting her Oscar
9:29PM- Academy Award-winner Reese Witherspoon presents Best Supporting Actor. The nominees are- Christian Bale, John Hawkes, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, and Geoffrey Rush. Is Bale beatable?
9:32PM- And the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor goes to...Christian Bale for The Fighter.
9:32PM- "Bloody hell, wow...what a room full of talented and inspirational people."- Christian Bale, accepting his Oscar
9:38PM- Tom Sherak: "I'm a Brooklyn boy, and I still root for the Dodgers."
9:39PM- Anne Sweeney, president of ABC-Disney and Academy President Tom Sherak announce the renewal of ABC and the Academy's "marriage" for the next nine Oscarcasts.
9:40PM- We go down under with two sexy Aussies, the lovely Nicole Kidman, and past Oscar host Hugh Jackman presenting the nominees for Original Score.
9:41PM- Mini-medley of Star Wars/ET/West Side Story.
9:42PM- The Best Original Score nominees are How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell- very loud and boistroius), The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat- very pianic, and poetic), The Social Network (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross- very 9-inch-nails-ish), 127 Hours (A.R. Rahman- can he go 3-for-4?), and Inception (Hans Zimmer- he's won here before)?
9:43PM- And the Oscar goes to...The Social Network- Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) and Atticus Ross
9:45PM- "I am six degrees of Kevin Bacon away from our next two presenters. Look it up on the Internet."- James Franco
9:46PM- Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johannson present the nominees for Sound Mixing, which are Inception, The King's Speech, Salt, The Social Network, and True Grit.
9:47PM- And the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing goes to...the team from Inception
9:48PM- The Nominees for Sound Editing are Inception, Toy Story 3, Tron Legacy, True Grit, and Unstoppable
9:49PM- The Oscar also goes to Inception.
9:53PM- Marisa Tomei presents what happened at the Scientific and Technical Awards.
9:55PM- Cate Blanchett presents Makeup and Costume Design Oscars.
9:56PM- The Makeup nominees are Barney's Version, The Way Back, and The Wolfman, which I believe are the lone nominations for these films. ("That's gross."- CB)
9:57PM- The Wolfman wins the Oscar for Best Makeup (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey, makeup artists)
9:58PM- "It was my ambition to lose an Oscar to Rick Baker one day, this is better."- Dave Elsey, accepting his award
9:58PM- Costume Nominees- Alice in Wonderland, I Am Love, The King's Speech, The Tempest, and True Grit
9:59PM- The Oscar goes to...Colleen Atwood for Alice in Wonderland (also won for Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha)
10:00PM- Colleen Atwood reads her speech verbatim. (she has great nylon gloves)
10:01PM- What is the Best Movie Song ever? "Lose Yourself"? "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp?" "Falling Slowly"? "Trolley Song"? "Footloose"? "The Time of My Life"? "My Heart Will Go On"? "Beauty and the Beast"? President Obama- "There are a lot of great songs, but if you go with one song, it's 'As Time Goes By'."
10:02PM- Kevin Spacey is on the stage..."Good evening, I'm George Clooney", saying lyrics from "Top Hat", introducing all four Best Original Song Nominees.
10:03PM- Randy Newman performs "We Belong" from Toy Story 3. Once the "Susan Lucci" of the Academy Awards, because of his repetitive defeats year-after-year, he finally won one in 2002 for "Monsters, Inc.".
10:04PM- Alan Menken (on the piano), Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi sing "I See the Light" from Tangled.
10:07PM- Commercial Break
10:12PM- Cute and wholesome Amy Adams and hunky Jake Gyllenhaal present the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject. Nominees are Killing in the Name, Poster Girl, Strangers No More, Sun Come Up, and The Warriors of Qiugang
10:13PM- The Oscar goes to...Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
10:14PM- Amy & Jake also present Live Action Short, which the nominees are The Confession, The Crush, God of Love, Nawewe, and Wish 143
10:15PM- The Oscar goes to...God of Love (Luke Matheny)
10:16PM- Check those (Live Action Short) nominees out on ITunes.
10:17PM- "NYU, what's up?"- James Franco; "This was the year of the Movie Musical"- James Franco
10:18PM- A dubbed music video with highlighted clips from Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, The Social Network, and Razzie nominee Twilight: Eclipse.
10:19PM- Oprah Winfrey presents our next category, which is...Documentary Feature.
10:20PM- The Documentary Feature nominees are: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gas Latin, Inside Job, Restrepo, and Waste Land
10:21PM- The Oscar goes to...Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
10:22PM- "In the three years since this recession began, NOT a single Wall Street exec has gone to prison, and that is WRONG."- Charles Ferguson, accepting the Oscar for "Inside Job"
10:23PM- Commercial Break
10:27PM- Jodie Dallas comes up to the stage. How many times has he hosted this shindig? "So, where was I?" "The producers asked me to tell you that this thing is running a little bit long, so the nominees for Best Picture are..."- Billy Crystal
10:28PM- "Bob Hope is what the Oscars should be, a really sexy movie star."; "Bob hosted the Oscars 18 times, I hosted it eight times, and was pooped after two."- Billy Crystal
10:29PM- A look back at the first nationally televised Oscar ceremony, back in 1953.
10:31PM- Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law present the nominees for Visual Effects.
10:32PM- The lucky nominees are Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter..., Hereafter, Inception, and Iron Man 2
10:33PM- The Oscar goes to...the team from Inception
10:34PM- The Film Editing nominees are Black Swan, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, and 127 Hours
10:35PM- The Oscar goes to The Social Network
10:41PM- Back to the Show! More Best Original Song nominees (and the winner), with Best Supporting Actress winner (from 4 years ago) Jennifer Hudson
10:42PM- "If I Rise" from 127 Hours with Florence Welch (without her machine) and A.R. Rahman
10:44PM- The fourth and final nominee for Best Original Song is sung by Oscar winning actress, turned country singer Gwyneth Paltrow (a future quadruple crown winner?), singing "Coming Home" from Country Strong.
10:45PM- Who will win Best Original Song? Will it be, "We Belong"? "I See The Light"? "If I Rise"? or "Coming Home"? Find out...RIGHT NOW!
10:46PM- The Oscar for Best Original Song goes to..."We Belong" from Toy Story 3. This is Randy's 2nd Oscar in only a mere 20 nominations. His first Oscar nods were for "Ragtime", 29 years ago.
10:48PM- "My percentages aren't great. This is my 20th nomination, and this is only my second win."/ "It's not really good television to take a list out and thank people."/ "At the Oscar luncheon, they have a lunch special called 'Randy Newman Chicken'." / "I want to be good television." / "You can find a fifth song from someone." / "I thank you all for this. The Academy has been very kind to me, so has the Music Branch. Thank You Very Much."- Randy Newman, in his acceptance speech for Best Original Song for Toy Story 3
10:49PM- After the commercial break, the Memoriam segment, a tribute to those we lost
10:52PM- In Memoriam (sung by Celine Dion- Smile): John Barry (composer- The Lion in Winter, Born Free), Grant McCune, Tony Curtis (No relation, but actor- Some Like It Hot), Edward Limato, Tom Mankiewicz, Gloria Stuart (actress- Titanic), William Fraker, Joseph Strick, Lionel Jeffries, Salle Menke, Ronni Chasen, Leslie Nielsen (actor- Airplane & Naked Gun series), Robert Radhitz, Claude Chabrol, Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Littlejohn, Pierre Guffroy, Patricia Neal (actress- Hud), George Hickenlooper, Irving Ravetch, Robert Culp (actor- Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice), Bob Boyle, Mario Monicelli, Lynn Redgrave (actress- Georgy Girl), Elliott Kastner, Dede Allen (editor), Peter Yates, Anne Francis, Arthur Penn (producer/director- Bonnie and Clyde), Theroin Aldredge, Susannah York (actress- Tom Jones/They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Ronald Neame, David Wolper (producer- Roots), Jill Clayburgh (actress- Pippin, An Unmarried Woman), Alan Hume, Irvin Kershner (producer- Star Wars), Dennis Hopper (actor/director- Easy Rider, Waterworld), Dino De Laurentiis, Blake Edwards (director- The Pink Panther), Kevin McCarthy, and Lena Horne
10:55PM- Now with a tribute to Lena Horne, Academy Award winner Halle Berry; she was the first black performer to sign a long-term movie contract in 1943
10:57PM- "It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it."- Lena Horne
10:57PM- Commercial Break. What's left? The final four...cue Europe- The Final Countdown.!!
11:01PM- Two-time Annette Bening victor Hilary Swank presents the trail blazer herself, Kathryn Bigelow, who will pass on the torch she blazed 357 days ago today.
11:02PM- The nominees for Best Director- Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Tom Hooper, The Coen Brothers, and David Fincher
11:03PM- The Director's Guild curse continues! Tom Hooper wins the Oscar for Best Director for "The King's Speech"
11:03PM- "Triangle of 'man-love'- Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, and Me"- Tom Hooper
11:04PM- Hooper tells the tale of how Hooper landed "The King's Speech". Thanks, Tom Hooper's mom! "With this tonight, I honor you, and the moral of the story is, listen to your mother."- Tom Hooper
11:05PM- Annette Bening (about to lose for the fifth time) recaps the Governor's Awards, which celebrated Honorary Oscar winners Eli Wallach, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow, and Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Winner, Francis Ford Coppola. Wallach, Brownlow, and Coppola get a standing ovation.
11:09PM- Up next- Best Actor and Actress. Who will win? Colin Firth? Annette Bening? Jesse Eisenberg? Michelle Williams? Javier Bardem? Jennifer Lawrence? Defending champ Jeff Bridges? Nicole Kidman? Host James Franco? Natalie Portman? Will Bridges hand over the Best Actress Oscar to Portman? Find out...in just a few short seconds.
11:12PM- Last year's Best Actor champ Jeff Bridges presents the nominees for Best Actress in a Lead Role, who are Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, and Michelle Williams.
11:16PM- The Oscar goes to...(or Jeff Bridges hands the Oscar to)...surprise...not! Natalie Portman dances off to victory in Black Swan.
11:18PM- This is such a sweet speech that Natalie Portman is giving.
11:20PM- Last year's Best (and Worst) Actress Sandra Bullock is presenting the Best Actor Academy Award, which whom the nominees are Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges , Jesse Eisenberg, Colin Firth, and your host James Franco (or 4 J's and a C); "How much is enough?"- Sandra Bullock (on Jeff Bridges)
11:25PM- The Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role goes to...duh, Colin Firth for The King's Speech!
11:25PM- "I have a feeling that my career has just peaked."- Colin Firth, accepting his Oscar
11:28PM- "If you'll excuse me, I have some impulses to take care of backstage."- Colin Firth
11:31PM- No film with England's monarchy as the Lead/Central role has won the Best Picture Academy Award in the first 82 years. Will "The King's Speech" speak out loudly to claim the top prize, or will one of these nine films dethrone the king- 127 Hours? Toy Story 3? The Social Network? True Grit? The Kids Are All Right? Inception? The Fighter? Winter's Bone? Black Swan? Find out...right NOW from Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg.
11:32PM- The Nominees again for Best Picture are Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, True Grit, Toy Story 3, and Winter's Bone. "The winner will join a list of movies that include On the Waterfront, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, and The Deer Hunter. The other nine movies will join a list of movies that include The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, The Graduate and Raging Bull."- Steven Spielberg
11:34PM- A lovely Best Picture montage with Colin Firth from "The King's Speech" and his "our darkest moment" monologue.
11:36PM- The final award of the night, the momentum has built to this, the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture goes to....The King's Speech! For the first time in 83 years, a film about England's monarchy wins the Best Picture Oscar. The King's Speech won 4 Oscars.
11:39PM- That's all she wrote...um, no. The chorus from P.S. 22 from Staten Island has a treat for us, the Best Original Song of 1939- "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
11:42PM- Welp, that's all she wrote. The King's Speech and Inception are tied with four Oscar wins, the most for any film. True Grit got skunked, just one nomination away from tying The Turning Point and The Color Purple as the losingest film at the Oscars.
11:43PM- Jimmy Kimmel Live after the Oscars is on in about a half-hour, with Tom Hanks, last night's Worst Supporting Actress Razzie winner Jessica Alba, CeeLo Green, and a bunch of other celebs. So, I'm going to go get some things done, and I'll be back for the After-Oscars Special...
12:32AM- Jimmy Kimmel Live After-Oscars Special- "The Week in Censorship".
12:36AM- "Hottie Body Fit Club" sketch with Jimmy K (fitness guru), with Scarlett Johansson (and Minka Kelly, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, and Kelly Ripa and Eva Longoria), as they do a new version of Pilates. This makes "I'm (um, yeah) Matt Damon" look like it was 80 years ago. Also in this sketch- Emily Blunt, Sofia Vergara, and a computer generated Lion.
12:47AM- Tom Hanks is now on chatting with Jimmy Kimmel.
12:50AM- "Toy Story 3 was the Best Movie of the Year."- Tom Hanks (on Jimmy Kimmel's After Oscars Special)
1:03AM- Tom Hanks in a great skit mocking Beauty Pageants. (which Rhonda Howard wins, lol...) "Houston, Tom Hanks has a problem."- Ron Howard
1:22AM- What a great night. Complete Oscar wrap-up in the March BC Bulletin. Now, closing things out on Jimmy Kimmel's After-Oscars Special is CeeLo Green with "Bright Lights, Big City" from his album, The Ladykillers.
8:12PM- About 17 Minutes Away; ABC's Robin Roberts is interviewing Best Actress nominee Nicole Kidman (wearing Christian Dior) with Keith Urban
8:13PM- Tim Gunn is interviewing Gwyneth Paltrow (wearing ??), who is performing "Coming Home" from Country Strong. Gwyneth wants to duet with Jay-Z, because he's a "Genius".
8:14PM- Robin is interviewing Best Supporting Actor nominee Christian Bale, the front-runner to win for "The Fighter". **15 Minutes Away**
8:18PM- One of next year's Razzie Nominees, perhaps- Matt Damon and Roger Sterling in "The Adjustment Bureau"...the ads have been played to death. Transformers 3 was introduced during the Super Bowl...yikes.
8:22PM- Robin Roberts interviews past Oscar and Tony host Hugh Jackman. Couldn't they have gotten him to host if both Anne and James suck?
8:23PM- James Franco is up for Best Actor. When was the last time an acting nominee hosted the Oscar ceremony?
8:23PM- Favorite Acceptance Speeches: Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (Best Actor) and Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful (Foreign Language Film)
8:24PM- Halle Berry is being interviewed wearing a Mark Hazel gown.
8:26PM- Robin Roberts interviews Tom Hanks, who is handing out the first award of the night.
8:32PM- James & Anne tell Leo DiCaprio that they will go into Alec Baldwin's dreams ("Inception")
8:33PM- James & Anne walk in and out of "The Social Network" and meet up with "The Fighter"
8:34PM- James (in a bear suit) & Anne now both have True Grit;
8:35PM- "The Naked Girl from 'Love and Other Drugs' and the guy from 'General Hospital' continute on through Alec Baldwin's dreams."
8:35PM- "News from the future- microphones get smaller."- Anne Hathaway (dressed up in 1930s attire)
8:36PM- In and out of dance rehearsal for "Black Swan" and now they meet up with Alec Baldwin; "A dream inside two other dreams, you just got Inception-ed."
8:37PM- James and Anne ride the Back to the Future car to get to the Academy Awards...and HERE THEY ARE! (applause, applause)
8:38PM- "Omigosh, you're all real."- Anne Hathaway (really, Anne, really?)
8:39PM- "It used to be, you get naked, you get nominated. But, not anymore."- Anne Hathaway
8:40PM- "Stand up straight. Steven Spielberg's here."- Anne Hathaway's mother
8:40PM- "I just saw Marky Mark."- James Franco's grandmother
8:41PM- "No, it's Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg."- Franco
8:41PM- "This has been a great year for lesbians in film."- Anne Hathaway; references to Black Swan (dancing lesbians), The Kids Are All Right and Toy Story 3 ("Where's the Dad?")
8:42PM- A look back at Gone With the Wind. Tom Hanks is presenting the first two awards of the night- Art Direction and Cinematography.
8:42PM- "Gone with the Wind was the first film to win for Best Picture, Cinematography, and Art Direction." Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, West Side Story, and Schindler's List, and most recently, Titanic also pulled this tri-fecta.
8:43PM- 3 Films are up for All three Awards; Up first, Nominees for Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter..., (the three films as Tom mentioned) Inception, The King's Speech, and True Grit.
8:44PM- The first Oscar of the Night goes to the team of Alice in Wonderland. Which officially means that this aforementioned tri-fecta WON'T HAPPEN AT ALL.
8:46PM- Nominees for Cinematography: Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech, The Social Network, and True Grit.
8:47PM- The second Oscar of the Night of the night goes to Wally Pfister, for his Cinematography of Inception. Roger Deakins (the cinematographer for the Coens Brothers films) loses again.
8:48PM- Best Supporting Actress is coming up next...who will win? Jacki Weaver? Hailee Steinfeld? Amy Adams? Melissa Leo? Helena Bonham Carter?
8:51PM- 94 year-young Kirk Douglas comes to the stage in a standing ovation to present Best Supporting Actress.
8:53PM- Supporting Actress Nominees- Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), and 14 year-old Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
8:55PM- "Colin Firth is not laughing. He's British."- Kirk Douglas
8:56PM- "I will never forget this moment. I've been nominated here three times, and I lost all three times. Everyone is still laughing."- Kirk Douglas
8:57PM- And the Oscar goes to...Melissa Leo for "The Fighter".
8:58PM- "Pinch me...is it mine?"- Melissa Leo; "You were much more beautiful that in 'The Fighter.'- Kirk Douglas; "You're much more good looking."- Melissa Leo (Leo and Douglas flirting with each other)
8:59PM- "Golly, I am so speechless...when I watched Kate two years ago, it was so ******** hard."- Melissa Leo
9:00PM- "Thank you Academy. It's about selling the motion pictures and doing the work. Thank you so much!"- Melissa Leo
9:01PM- "I thought 'F' stood for 'The Fighter'"- Anne Hathaway
9:02PM- Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake present the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short; "I'm pretty sure they have an app for that."- Justin Timberlake
9:03PM- Can "Toy Story 3" be beat?
9:03PM- Animated Short Nominees: Day and Night, The Gruffalo, Let's Pollute, The Lost Thing, and Madagascar: Carnet de Voyage
9:04PM- The Oscar Goes to...The Lost Thing (Best Animated Short)
9:05PM- Animated Feature Nominees: How to Train a Dragon, The Illusionist, and Toy Story 3
9:06PM- The Oscar Goes for Best Animated Feature goes to...the REAL Best Picture of the Year- Toy Story 3. (the award goes to director Lee Unkrich, who is also up for Adapted Screenplay).
9:07PM- "The most awesome place on the planet to make movies."- Lee Unkrich (on Pixar, citing the Toy Story I creators)
9:08PM- Coming up, Original Screenplay. Who will win- The King's Speech? The Kids Are All Right? The Fighter? Inception? Another Year?
9:09PM- The last Oscar nominee to host was Paul Hogan in 1987 (Hogan was up for penning Crocodile Dundee). The last acting nominee to host was Jeff Bridges in 1985 (up for Starman). The only acting nominee to win was David Niven, who hosted the 1959 Academy Awards.
9:12PM- Back again. The first Oscar ceremony was hosted at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1928.
9:13PM- Josh Brolin and Best Actor nominee Javier Bardem (dressed in dapper white on white) present both Screenplay categories.
9:14PM- The Adapted Screenplay nominees: 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, and Winter's Bone
9:14PM- The Oscar Goes To....Aaron Sorkin for "The Social Network"- Aaron's first Oscar win and nomination (he was SNUBBED for "A Few Good Men")
9:15PM- "It was impossible to win an award that Paddy Chayefsky won 35 years ago with the word 'Network' in it."- Aaron Sorkin
9:15PM- "I wrote this movie, but David Fincher directed this movie with an unsightful godliness."- Aaron Sorkin
9:16PM- music is getting harder ("Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award, I expect to see some respect from your guinea pig."- Aaron Sorkin)
9:17PM- Original Screenplay Nominees- Another Year, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, and The King's Speech
9:18PM- And the Original Screenplay Oscar goes to...David Seidler for penning The King's Speech (all of them, hehe...)
9:18PM- "The Writer's Speech, this is terrifying. My father always said to me, I would always be a late bloomer. I believe I am the oldest person to win this Academy Award. I hope that record is broken quickly and often."- David Seidler, accepting his Oscar ("There are so many people and they are telling me to 'wrap up' now.") Seidler also acknowledges those who stutter.
9:20PM- Best Supporting Actor is up after the next break. Who will win? Geoffrey Rush? Mark Ruffalo? John Hawkes? Jeremy Renner? or Christian Bale?
9:24PM- Up now, Anne sings a parody of "On My Own" from Les Miserables.
9:25PM- James Franco dressed in drag. ("I just got a text message from Charlie Sheen."- James Franco)
9:26PM- Russell Brand and Dame Helen Mirren present Best Foreign Language Film.
9:26PM- The Nominees are: Biutiful (Mexico), Dogtooth (Greece), In a Better World (Denmark), Incendies (Canada), and Outside the Law (Algeria).
9:27PM- The Oscar goes to...In a Better World (Denmark), Susanna Bier, producer. This won the Golden Globe, and is Denmark's third Oscar win for Foreign Language Film.
9:28PM- "This is a real Oscar..."- Susanna Bier, accepting her Oscar
9:29PM- Academy Award-winner Reese Witherspoon presents Best Supporting Actor. The nominees are- Christian Bale, John Hawkes, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, and Geoffrey Rush. Is Bale beatable?
9:32PM- And the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor goes to...Christian Bale for The Fighter.
9:32PM- "Bloody hell, wow...what a room full of talented and inspirational people."- Christian Bale, accepting his Oscar
9:38PM- Tom Sherak: "I'm a Brooklyn boy, and I still root for the Dodgers."
9:39PM- Anne Sweeney, president of ABC-Disney and Academy President Tom Sherak announce the renewal of ABC and the Academy's "marriage" for the next nine Oscarcasts.
9:40PM- We go down under with two sexy Aussies, the lovely Nicole Kidman, and past Oscar host Hugh Jackman presenting the nominees for Original Score.
9:41PM- Mini-medley of Star Wars/ET/West Side Story.
9:42PM- The Best Original Score nominees are How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell- very loud and boistroius), The King's Speech (Alexandre Desplat- very pianic, and poetic), The Social Network (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross- very 9-inch-nails-ish), 127 Hours (A.R. Rahman- can he go 3-for-4?), and Inception (Hans Zimmer- he's won here before)?
9:43PM- And the Oscar goes to...The Social Network- Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) and Atticus Ross
9:45PM- "I am six degrees of Kevin Bacon away from our next two presenters. Look it up on the Internet."- James Franco
9:46PM- Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johannson present the nominees for Sound Mixing, which are Inception, The King's Speech, Salt, The Social Network, and True Grit.
9:47PM- And the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing goes to...the team from Inception
9:48PM- The Nominees for Sound Editing are Inception, Toy Story 3, Tron Legacy, True Grit, and Unstoppable
9:49PM- The Oscar also goes to Inception.
9:53PM- Marisa Tomei presents what happened at the Scientific and Technical Awards.
9:55PM- Cate Blanchett presents Makeup and Costume Design Oscars.
9:56PM- The Makeup nominees are Barney's Version, The Way Back, and The Wolfman, which I believe are the lone nominations for these films. ("That's gross."- CB)
9:57PM- The Wolfman wins the Oscar for Best Makeup (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey, makeup artists)
9:58PM- "It was my ambition to lose an Oscar to Rick Baker one day, this is better."- Dave Elsey, accepting his award
9:58PM- Costume Nominees- Alice in Wonderland, I Am Love, The King's Speech, The Tempest, and True Grit
9:59PM- The Oscar goes to...Colleen Atwood for Alice in Wonderland (also won for Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha)
10:00PM- Colleen Atwood reads her speech verbatim. (she has great nylon gloves)
10:01PM- What is the Best Movie Song ever? "Lose Yourself"? "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp?" "Falling Slowly"? "Trolley Song"? "Footloose"? "The Time of My Life"? "My Heart Will Go On"? "Beauty and the Beast"? President Obama- "There are a lot of great songs, but if you go with one song, it's 'As Time Goes By'."
10:02PM- Kevin Spacey is on the stage..."Good evening, I'm George Clooney", saying lyrics from "Top Hat", introducing all four Best Original Song Nominees.
10:03PM- Randy Newman performs "We Belong" from Toy Story 3. Once the "Susan Lucci" of the Academy Awards, because of his repetitive defeats year-after-year, he finally won one in 2002 for "Monsters, Inc.".
10:04PM- Alan Menken (on the piano), Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi sing "I See the Light" from Tangled.
10:07PM- Commercial Break
10:12PM- Cute and wholesome Amy Adams and hunky Jake Gyllenhaal present the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject. Nominees are Killing in the Name, Poster Girl, Strangers No More, Sun Come Up, and The Warriors of Qiugang
10:13PM- The Oscar goes to...Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
10:14PM- Amy & Jake also present Live Action Short, which the nominees are The Confession, The Crush, God of Love, Nawewe, and Wish 143
10:15PM- The Oscar goes to...God of Love (Luke Matheny)
10:16PM- Check those (Live Action Short) nominees out on ITunes.
10:17PM- "NYU, what's up?"- James Franco; "This was the year of the Movie Musical"- James Franco
10:18PM- A dubbed music video with highlighted clips from Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, The Social Network, and Razzie nominee Twilight: Eclipse.
10:19PM- Oprah Winfrey presents our next category, which is...Documentary Feature.
10:20PM- The Documentary Feature nominees are: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gas Latin, Inside Job, Restrepo, and Waste Land
10:21PM- The Oscar goes to...Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
10:22PM- "In the three years since this recession began, NOT a single Wall Street exec has gone to prison, and that is WRONG."- Charles Ferguson, accepting the Oscar for "Inside Job"
10:23PM- Commercial Break
10:27PM- Jodie Dallas comes up to the stage. How many times has he hosted this shindig? "So, where was I?" "The producers asked me to tell you that this thing is running a little bit long, so the nominees for Best Picture are..."- Billy Crystal
10:28PM- "Bob Hope is what the Oscars should be, a really sexy movie star."; "Bob hosted the Oscars 18 times, I hosted it eight times, and was pooped after two."- Billy Crystal
10:29PM- A look back at the first nationally televised Oscar ceremony, back in 1953.
10:31PM- Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law present the nominees for Visual Effects.
10:32PM- The lucky nominees are Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter..., Hereafter, Inception, and Iron Man 2
10:33PM- The Oscar goes to...the team from Inception
10:34PM- The Film Editing nominees are Black Swan, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, and 127 Hours
10:35PM- The Oscar goes to The Social Network
10:41PM- Back to the Show! More Best Original Song nominees (and the winner), with Best Supporting Actress winner (from 4 years ago) Jennifer Hudson
10:42PM- "If I Rise" from 127 Hours with Florence Welch (without her machine) and A.R. Rahman
10:44PM- The fourth and final nominee for Best Original Song is sung by Oscar winning actress, turned country singer Gwyneth Paltrow (a future quadruple crown winner?), singing "Coming Home" from Country Strong.
10:45PM- Who will win Best Original Song? Will it be, "We Belong"? "I See The Light"? "If I Rise"? or "Coming Home"? Find out...RIGHT NOW!
10:46PM- The Oscar for Best Original Song goes to..."We Belong" from Toy Story 3. This is Randy's 2nd Oscar in only a mere 20 nominations. His first Oscar nods were for "Ragtime", 29 years ago.
10:48PM- "My percentages aren't great. This is my 20th nomination, and this is only my second win."/ "It's not really good television to take a list out and thank people."/ "At the Oscar luncheon, they have a lunch special called 'Randy Newman Chicken'." / "I want to be good television." / "You can find a fifth song from someone." / "I thank you all for this. The Academy has been very kind to me, so has the Music Branch. Thank You Very Much."- Randy Newman, in his acceptance speech for Best Original Song for Toy Story 3
10:49PM- After the commercial break, the Memoriam segment, a tribute to those we lost
10:52PM- In Memoriam (sung by Celine Dion- Smile): John Barry (composer- The Lion in Winter, Born Free), Grant McCune, Tony Curtis (No relation, but actor- Some Like It Hot), Edward Limato, Tom Mankiewicz, Gloria Stuart (actress- Titanic), William Fraker, Joseph Strick, Lionel Jeffries, Salle Menke, Ronni Chasen, Leslie Nielsen (actor- Airplane & Naked Gun series), Robert Radhitz, Claude Chabrol, Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Littlejohn, Pierre Guffroy, Patricia Neal (actress- Hud), George Hickenlooper, Irving Ravetch, Robert Culp (actor- Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice), Bob Boyle, Mario Monicelli, Lynn Redgrave (actress- Georgy Girl), Elliott Kastner, Dede Allen (editor), Peter Yates, Anne Francis, Arthur Penn (producer/director- Bonnie and Clyde), Theroin Aldredge, Susannah York (actress- Tom Jones/They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), Ronald Neame, David Wolper (producer- Roots), Jill Clayburgh (actress- Pippin, An Unmarried Woman), Alan Hume, Irvin Kershner (producer- Star Wars), Dennis Hopper (actor/director- Easy Rider, Waterworld), Dino De Laurentiis, Blake Edwards (director- The Pink Panther), Kevin McCarthy, and Lena Horne
10:55PM- Now with a tribute to Lena Horne, Academy Award winner Halle Berry; she was the first black performer to sign a long-term movie contract in 1943
10:57PM- "It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it."- Lena Horne
10:57PM- Commercial Break. What's left? The final four...cue Europe- The Final Countdown.!!
11:01PM- Two-time Annette Bening victor Hilary Swank presents the trail blazer herself, Kathryn Bigelow, who will pass on the torch she blazed 357 days ago today.
11:02PM- The nominees for Best Director- Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Tom Hooper, The Coen Brothers, and David Fincher
11:03PM- The Director's Guild curse continues! Tom Hooper wins the Oscar for Best Director for "The King's Speech"
11:03PM- "Triangle of 'man-love'- Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, and Me"- Tom Hooper
11:04PM- Hooper tells the tale of how Hooper landed "The King's Speech". Thanks, Tom Hooper's mom! "With this tonight, I honor you, and the moral of the story is, listen to your mother."- Tom Hooper
11:05PM- Annette Bening (about to lose for the fifth time) recaps the Governor's Awards, which celebrated Honorary Oscar winners Eli Wallach, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow, and Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Winner, Francis Ford Coppola. Wallach, Brownlow, and Coppola get a standing ovation.
11:09PM- Up next- Best Actor and Actress. Who will win? Colin Firth? Annette Bening? Jesse Eisenberg? Michelle Williams? Javier Bardem? Jennifer Lawrence? Defending champ Jeff Bridges? Nicole Kidman? Host James Franco? Natalie Portman? Will Bridges hand over the Best Actress Oscar to Portman? Find out...in just a few short seconds.
11:12PM- Last year's Best Actor champ Jeff Bridges presents the nominees for Best Actress in a Lead Role, who are Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, and Michelle Williams.
11:16PM- The Oscar goes to...(or Jeff Bridges hands the Oscar to)...surprise...not! Natalie Portman dances off to victory in Black Swan.
11:18PM- This is such a sweet speech that Natalie Portman is giving.
11:20PM- Last year's Best (and Worst) Actress Sandra Bullock is presenting the Best Actor Academy Award, which whom the nominees are Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges , Jesse Eisenberg, Colin Firth, and your host James Franco (or 4 J's and a C); "How much is enough?"- Sandra Bullock (on Jeff Bridges)
11:25PM- The Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role goes to...duh, Colin Firth for The King's Speech!
11:25PM- "I have a feeling that my career has just peaked."- Colin Firth, accepting his Oscar
11:28PM- "If you'll excuse me, I have some impulses to take care of backstage."- Colin Firth
11:31PM- No film with England's monarchy as the Lead/Central role has won the Best Picture Academy Award in the first 82 years. Will "The King's Speech" speak out loudly to claim the top prize, or will one of these nine films dethrone the king- 127 Hours? Toy Story 3? The Social Network? True Grit? The Kids Are All Right? Inception? The Fighter? Winter's Bone? Black Swan? Find out...right NOW from Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg.
11:32PM- The Nominees again for Best Picture are Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, True Grit, Toy Story 3, and Winter's Bone. "The winner will join a list of movies that include On the Waterfront, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, and The Deer Hunter. The other nine movies will join a list of movies that include The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, The Graduate and Raging Bull."- Steven Spielberg
11:34PM- A lovely Best Picture montage with Colin Firth from "The King's Speech" and his "our darkest moment" monologue.
11:36PM- The final award of the night, the momentum has built to this, the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture goes to....The King's Speech! For the first time in 83 years, a film about England's monarchy wins the Best Picture Oscar. The King's Speech won 4 Oscars.
11:39PM- That's all she wrote...um, no. The chorus from P.S. 22 from Staten Island has a treat for us, the Best Original Song of 1939- "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
11:42PM- Welp, that's all she wrote. The King's Speech and Inception are tied with four Oscar wins, the most for any film. True Grit got skunked, just one nomination away from tying The Turning Point and The Color Purple as the losingest film at the Oscars.
11:43PM- Jimmy Kimmel Live after the Oscars is on in about a half-hour, with Tom Hanks, last night's Worst Supporting Actress Razzie winner Jessica Alba, CeeLo Green, and a bunch of other celebs. So, I'm going to go get some things done, and I'll be back for the After-Oscars Special...
12:32AM- Jimmy Kimmel Live After-Oscars Special- "The Week in Censorship".
12:36AM- "Hottie Body Fit Club" sketch with Jimmy K (fitness guru), with Scarlett Johansson (and Minka Kelly, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, and Kelly Ripa and Eva Longoria), as they do a new version of Pilates. This makes "I'm (um, yeah) Matt Damon" look like it was 80 years ago. Also in this sketch- Emily Blunt, Sofia Vergara, and a computer generated Lion.
12:47AM- Tom Hanks is now on chatting with Jimmy Kimmel.
12:50AM- "Toy Story 3 was the Best Movie of the Year."- Tom Hanks (on Jimmy Kimmel's After Oscars Special)
1:03AM- Tom Hanks in a great skit mocking Beauty Pageants. (which Rhonda Howard wins, lol...) "Houston, Tom Hanks has a problem."- Ron Howard
1:22AM- What a great night. Complete Oscar wrap-up in the March BC Bulletin. Now, closing things out on Jimmy Kimmel's After-Oscars Special is CeeLo Green with "Bright Lights, Big City" from his album, The Ladykillers.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards- FINAL PREDICTIONS
On Sunday, the 83rd Annual Academy Awards will air LIVE on ABC, hosted by Anne Hathaway and Best Actor nominee James Franco. In recent years, there haven't been that many big surprises on Oscar night, but Oscar pundits, both amateur, like A Man and His Awards, and professional, like the guys from Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and so forth, think that this year's top Oscar races are sealed shut.
Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
WILL WIN- The King's Speech
SHOULD WIN- The Social Network or Toy Story 3
UPSET CHOICE- Toy Story 3
COMMENTARY:
It looks like the Motion Academy will de-friend The Social Network with their choice of Best Picture. They will go for the inspirational story about the king who overcame a stammer to rule England just before World War II. Oscar voters love their period films. If The Social Network were made in the year 2050, then maybe it would get a shot here at winning. It's been a while since the most nominated movie has won Best Picture (The 76th Annual Academy Awards- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King). That streak will end on Sunday as The King's Speech is crowned Best Picture.
Best Actor:
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Colin Firth
UPSET CHOICE- You're kidding, right?
COMMENTARY:
Last year, both Bridges and Firth were nominated. Bridges won the Best Actor prize for playing an alcoholic country singer. This year, it's Firth's turn as he plays King George VI, who overcame a stammer to assume the role of England's monarch following his brother's abdication.
Best Actress:
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Natalie Portman
UPSET CHOICE- Annette Bening
COMMENTARY:
Annette Bening is a good actress. She's well overdue for an Academy Award. Four trips to the Academy's Altar (1990- The Grifters, 1991- Bugsy, 1999- American Beauty, 2004- Being Juia), and she's gone home empty-handed all four times. Which is why it pains me to say that she'll go home empty-handed for a fifth time, because Natalie Portman has this one. Oscar voters love their Best Actresses between the ages of 25 and 40. Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Julie Christie, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Jodie Foster, and the list goes on, they all fit this bill.
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Christian Bale
UPSET CHOICE- Geoffrey Rush
COMMENTARY:
Bale is the clear-cut choice, but if momentum builds towards The King's Speech, be on the lookout for Geoffrey Rush to pull off an upset.
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
WILL WIN- Hailee Steinfeld
SHOULD WIN- Melissa Leo
UPSET CHOICE- Steinfeld
COMMENTARY:
Anna Paquin. Tatum O'Neal. Patty Duke. All three were in their tweens or teens when they became Academy Award winners. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Linda Blair also were tweens/teens that were nominated in this category. Young actresses fare well in this category. The original film won John Wayne his only competitive Oscar 41 years ago, and the remake will win one for this talented 14 year-old, who splashed into her big screen debut with the remake of this 1969 western.
Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Joel & Ethan Coen (True Grit)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
WILL WIN- Tom Hooper
SHOULD WIN- David Fincher
UPSET CHOICE- The Coen Brothers
COMMENTARY:
Only six times in the history of the Academy Awards, have the Director's Guild picked different from the Academy. Tom Hooper won the Director's Guild, and in a recent interview, said he hopes to win the Oscar. Some critics blasted his direction of the Emmy-winning miniseries John Adams, which he ended up losing the Emmy in 2008. I think that Hooper will win the Oscar, as the Academy will not buck the trend set by the Director's Guild.
Best Animated Feature:
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Toy Story 3
UPSET CHOICE- the other two nominees
COMMENTARY:
It's such a sad, sad story. Poor Andy goes off to college, and our favorite animated toys, go their, as the old Journey album suggests, "Separate Ways". A win for the third Toy Story installment is also a win for the first two Toy Story movies, whose releases pre-dated this ten year-old category.
Best Picture:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
WILL WIN- The King's Speech
SHOULD WIN- The Social Network or Toy Story 3
UPSET CHOICE- Toy Story 3
COMMENTARY:
It looks like the Motion Academy will de-friend The Social Network with their choice of Best Picture. They will go for the inspirational story about the king who overcame a stammer to rule England just before World War II. Oscar voters love their period films. If The Social Network were made in the year 2050, then maybe it would get a shot here at winning. It's been a while since the most nominated movie has won Best Picture (The 76th Annual Academy Awards- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King). That streak will end on Sunday as The King's Speech is crowned Best Picture.
Best Actor:
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Colin Firth
UPSET CHOICE- You're kidding, right?
COMMENTARY:
Last year, both Bridges and Firth were nominated. Bridges won the Best Actor prize for playing an alcoholic country singer. This year, it's Firth's turn as he plays King George VI, who overcame a stammer to assume the role of England's monarch following his brother's abdication.
Best Actress:
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Natalie Portman
UPSET CHOICE- Annette Bening
COMMENTARY:
Annette Bening is a good actress. She's well overdue for an Academy Award. Four trips to the Academy's Altar (1990- The Grifters, 1991- Bugsy, 1999- American Beauty, 2004- Being Juia), and she's gone home empty-handed all four times. Which is why it pains me to say that she'll go home empty-handed for a fifth time, because Natalie Portman has this one. Oscar voters love their Best Actresses between the ages of 25 and 40. Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Julie Christie, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Jodie Foster, and the list goes on, they all fit this bill.
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Christian Bale
UPSET CHOICE- Geoffrey Rush
COMMENTARY:
Bale is the clear-cut choice, but if momentum builds towards The King's Speech, be on the lookout for Geoffrey Rush to pull off an upset.
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
WILL WIN- Hailee Steinfeld
SHOULD WIN- Melissa Leo
UPSET CHOICE- Steinfeld
COMMENTARY:
Anna Paquin. Tatum O'Neal. Patty Duke. All three were in their tweens or teens when they became Academy Award winners. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Linda Blair also were tweens/teens that were nominated in this category. Young actresses fare well in this category. The original film won John Wayne his only competitive Oscar 41 years ago, and the remake will win one for this talented 14 year-old, who splashed into her big screen debut with the remake of this 1969 western.
Best Director:
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Joel & Ethan Coen (True Grit)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
WILL WIN- Tom Hooper
SHOULD WIN- David Fincher
UPSET CHOICE- The Coen Brothers
COMMENTARY:
Only six times in the history of the Academy Awards, have the Director's Guild picked different from the Academy. Tom Hooper won the Director's Guild, and in a recent interview, said he hopes to win the Oscar. Some critics blasted his direction of the Emmy-winning miniseries John Adams, which he ended up losing the Emmy in 2008. I think that Hooper will win the Oscar, as the Academy will not buck the trend set by the Director's Guild.
Best Animated Feature:
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3
WILL/SHOULD WIN- Toy Story 3
UPSET CHOICE- the other two nominees
COMMENTARY:
It's such a sad, sad story. Poor Andy goes off to college, and our favorite animated toys, go their, as the old Journey album suggests, "Separate Ways". A win for the third Toy Story installment is also a win for the first two Toy Story movies, whose releases pre-dated this ten year-old category.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Oscar Speaks Loudly To The 'King' With 12 Nominations
"The King's Speech", a film about the speech impedient of King George VI, leads all movies with 12 nominations, including Best Picture, at this year's Academy Awards.
The nominations were announced this morning at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Hollywood, presented by Academy Chair Tom Sherak and last year's Supporting Actress winner, Mo'Nique.
"The King's Speech" dethroned perceived frontrunner "The Social Network" at the Producer's Guild Award, winning the Best Picture prize there, recently. "The Social Network" was friended in almost every single high-profile awards ceremony for Best Picture until then, including the Golden Globes. "The Social Network" is tied with "Inception" as the third-most nominated movie with eight nominations.
The nominees for Best Picture are "Black Swan", "The Fighter", "Inception", "The Kids Are All Right", "The King's Speech", "127 Hours", "The Social Network", "Toy Story 3", "True Grit", and "Winter's Bone".
The Best Director category is back to the same old "Boy's Club" after Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win this coveted Oscar race last year. The five men up for the prize are Darren Aronofsky for "Black Swan", David Fincher for "The Social Network", Tom Hooper for "The King's Speech", David O. Russell for "The Fighter", and the Coen Brothers for "True Grit".
The nominees for Best Actor in a Motion Picture are Javier Bardem for the Mexican film "Biutiful", Jeff Bridges for "True Grit", Jesse Eisenberg for "The Social Network", Colin Firth for "The King's Speech", and this year's Oscar co-host James Franco for "127 Hours".
The nominees for Best Actress in a Motion Picture are Annette Bening for "The Kids Are All Right", Nicole Kidman for "Rabbit Hole", Jennifer Lawrence for "Winter's Bone", Natalie Portman for "Black Swan", and Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine".
Noticeable snubs included Andrew Garfield ("The Social Network") in Supporting Actor, Mila Kunis ("Black Swan") in Supporting Actress, Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter") in Best Actor, and Christopher Nolan ("Inception") for Best Director. "Waiting for Superman" was snubbed in the Documentary Feature race, where it had been the perceived favorite to win that award.
Wahlberg and Nolan, however are competing in the Best Picture category, as producers of "The Fighter" and "Inception", respectively. Nolan also got an Original Screenplay nomination, as well.
Winners will be announced at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on February 27. James Franco and Anne Hathaway are the hosts, and the Oscar show this year will be produced by Don Mischer and Bruce Cohen.
To view the complete list of nominees, go to http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html.
The nominations were announced this morning at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Hollywood, presented by Academy Chair Tom Sherak and last year's Supporting Actress winner, Mo'Nique.
"The King's Speech" dethroned perceived frontrunner "The Social Network" at the Producer's Guild Award, winning the Best Picture prize there, recently. "The Social Network" was friended in almost every single high-profile awards ceremony for Best Picture until then, including the Golden Globes. "The Social Network" is tied with "Inception" as the third-most nominated movie with eight nominations.
The nominees for Best Picture are "Black Swan", "The Fighter", "Inception", "The Kids Are All Right", "The King's Speech", "127 Hours", "The Social Network", "Toy Story 3", "True Grit", and "Winter's Bone".
The Best Director category is back to the same old "Boy's Club" after Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win this coveted Oscar race last year. The five men up for the prize are Darren Aronofsky for "Black Swan", David Fincher for "The Social Network", Tom Hooper for "The King's Speech", David O. Russell for "The Fighter", and the Coen Brothers for "True Grit".
The nominees for Best Actor in a Motion Picture are Javier Bardem for the Mexican film "Biutiful", Jeff Bridges for "True Grit", Jesse Eisenberg for "The Social Network", Colin Firth for "The King's Speech", and this year's Oscar co-host James Franco for "127 Hours".
The nominees for Best Actress in a Motion Picture are Annette Bening for "The Kids Are All Right", Nicole Kidman for "Rabbit Hole", Jennifer Lawrence for "Winter's Bone", Natalie Portman for "Black Swan", and Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine".
Noticeable snubs included Andrew Garfield ("The Social Network") in Supporting Actor, Mila Kunis ("Black Swan") in Supporting Actress, Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter") in Best Actor, and Christopher Nolan ("Inception") for Best Director. "Waiting for Superman" was snubbed in the Documentary Feature race, where it had been the perceived favorite to win that award.
Wahlberg and Nolan, however are competing in the Best Picture category, as producers of "The Fighter" and "Inception", respectively. Nolan also got an Original Screenplay nomination, as well.
Winners will be announced at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on February 27. James Franco and Anne Hathaway are the hosts, and the Oscar show this year will be produced by Don Mischer and Bruce Cohen.
To view the complete list of nominees, go to http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Oscar Shortlists
The 83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations will be announced on Tuesday morning, and shortlists were recently revealed in some of the categories.
Animated Feature
Short Animated
Documentary Short
Documentary Feature
Foreign Language Film
Short Film
Visual Effects
Makeup
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Animated Feature
Short Animated
Documentary Short
Documentary Feature
Foreign Language Film
Short Film
Visual Effects
Makeup
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