A Night of the Oscars – A Recap of The 86th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony

Bryan Curtiss, Writer

The 86th Annual Academy Awards were held last night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.  The night belonged to “12 Years a Slave”, which won three Oscars, including Best Picture.  The film with the most awards was “Gravity”, which won six, including Best Director.  This is a recap of what happened while I was watching the ceremony on ABC.


8:30PM – The Ceremony has begun here on the East Coast.  Let a night of fun begin!
 “It has been a tough couple of days for us here.  It has been raining.  We made it.  Thank you for your prayers.” – Ellen DeGeneres

8:31PM – “I was telling you that you were wonderful in ‘Nebraska’” – Ellen DeGeneres to June Squibb, whom at 84 years young, is the oldest nominee this year.

8:32PM – “He is a Sommelier, which means he knows about wine.” (Ellen on Barkhad Abdi)  I don’t know about this one.  A little bit edgy.

8:34PM – “The nominees here made over 1400 films, and had a total of six years of college.”

8:35PM – “One of the nominees is ‘Her’, and by ‘Her’, I mean Meryl Streep.”

8:38PM – “Speaking of sex and the rodeos, Bruce Dern is here tonight.”

8:39PM – “Possibility # 1, ‘12 Years a Slave’ wins Best Picture.  Possibility # 2, you are all racists.”

8:40PM – Last year’s Supporting Actress winner Anne Hathaway presents the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, the first award of the night.

8:42PM – Jared Leto wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a transgender AIDS patient in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

8:43PM – Leto acknowledges his mother in his acceptance speech.

8:44PM – “We are here, and as you struggle to make your dreams happen, and to live the impossible, we are thinking of you tonight.” – Leto, who acknowledges those struggling in places like Ukraine and Venezuela

8:45PM – Leto dedicates his Oscar to the 36 million people who died of AIDS.

8:48PM – Jim Carrey is on the stage, presenting a tribute to the Animated Heroes of film.

8:50PM – Kerry Washington presents the first Original Song nominee, Pharrell.

8:52PM – Grammy-winning artist Pharrell performs his hit song “Happy” (and yes, he is wearing THAT HAT).  “Happy” is a great feel-good song.

8:53PM – We have hit our first commercial break.

8:56PM – Samuel L. Jackson and Naomi Watts present the Oscar for Costume Design.

8:58PM – Catherine Martin wins the Academy Award for Costume Design for “The Great Gatsby”.

8:59PM – “I have a few words that I have tucked in my bra.  It’s a very Australian thing to do.” – Martin (accepting her Oscar)

8:59PM – Jackson and Watts also present the Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar.

9:00PM – Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews win the Academy Award for Makeup and Hairstyling for “Dallas Buyers Club”.

9:02PM – Harrison Ford introduces the first three Best Picture nominees, “American Hustle”, “Dallas Buyers Club”, and “The Wolf of Wall Street”.

9:06PM – Channing Tatum introduces the six college students who won the 2014 “Team Oscar” contest (where college students submit a 60-second video with their hopes and dreams for the future of film).

9:06PM – More commercials start right now.

9:11PM – Kim Novak and Matthew McConaughey present the Oscar for Best Animated Short Feature.

9:13PM – “Mr. Hublot” wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short (sorry Mickey Mouse fans) for Frenchmen Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares.

9:14PM – Novak and McConaughey also present the Oscar for Animated Feature.

9:15PM – “Frozen” wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

9:17PM – Sally Field introduces a clip to the “Ordinary, Extraordinary Heroes” of Motion Pictures.

9:20PM – Emma Watson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt present the Oscar fore Visual Effects.

9:21PM – The Visual Effects team from “Gravity” wins the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

9:23PM – Zac Efron introduces the second Original Song nominee, “The Moon Song” from “Her”, performed by Karen O.

9:25PM – “The Moon Song” from “Her”.

9:26PM – It is time for another commercial break right now.

9:30PM – Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis present the Oscar for Live Action Short Film.

9:31PM – “Helium” wins the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.

9:33PM – Sudeikis and Hudson also present the Documentary Short Subject Oscar.

9:34PM – “The Lady In Number 6 – Music Saved My Life” wins the Documentary Short Subject Academy Award.

9:36PM – Bradley Cooper presents the Oscar for Documentary Feature.

9:37PM – “20 Feet from Stardom” wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

9:40PM – “I sing because it’s nice to be out of Washington.” – Kevin Spacey (in character as Frank Underwood)

9:41PM – Spacey acknowledges the Governor’s Award winners (Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, and costume designer Piero Tosi), and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winner (Angelina Jolie).

9:44PM – Commercial Break

9:48PM – Ewan McGregor and Viola Davis present the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

9:50PM – “The Great Beauty” wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, winning Italy’s first Foreign Language Film Oscar in 15 years.

9:51PM – Last night’s Worst Actress Razzie winner, Tyler Perry presents the second trio of Oscar nominees for Best Picture, “Nebraska”, “Her”, and “Gravity”.

9:54PM – (Best Picture nominee tonight) Brad Pitt introduces “No Ordinary Love” and the Irish rock band U2.

9:55PM – U2 performs their Golden Globe winning song “No Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom”.

9:58PM – Commercial Break

10:03PM – Ellen tries to get a selfie with a nominee, wacky hijinks ensue.

10:04PM – Michael B. Jordan and Kristen Bell present the highlights from the Scientific and Technical Awards, which Jordan and Bell co-hosted on February 15.

10:06PM – Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth are presenting the next two Categories – Sound Editing (after this category), and up first is Sound Mixing.

10:07PM – The Sound Mixing team from “Gravity” wins the Academy Award for Achievement in Sound Mixing.

10:08PM – Sound Editing (also presented by Theron & Hemsworth) is being presented.

10:09PM – Sound Editor Glenn Freemantle wins the Academy Award for “Gravity”.

10:11PM – Last year’s Supporting Actor winner, Christoph Waltz presents the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.  Who will win?  Team J-Law or Team Nyong’o?

10:14PM – Kenyan native Lupita Nyong’o wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Patsy in “12 Years a Slave”.

10:17PM – Commercial Break is up next.  Must write filler for tomorrow night’s show…

10:22PM – Ellen DeGeneres is passing out pizza with the pizza delivery guy.

10:24PM – Cheryl Boone-Isaacs, the first African-American female Motion Picture Academy President is speaking now on the Oscar stage.

10:25PM – Boone-Isaacs introduces a new museum being built in Los Angeles that will open in 2017.

10:25PM – “Good luck following that, Amy Adams and Bill Murray”. – Ellen

10:26PM – “Baby, you look like 146 domestic.”

10:26PM – Amy Adams and Bill Murray are presenting the Oscar for Best Cinematography.

10:27PM – Murray acknowledges the recently departed Harold Ramis.

10:28PM – Gravity wins the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

10:30PM – Anna Kendrick and Gabourey Sidibe present the Academy Award for Editing (in a Motion Picture).

10:30PM – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger win the Academy Award for Editing in a Motion Picture for “Gravity”.

10:32PM – Whoopi Goldberg introduces the 75th Anniversary Tribute segment of “The Wizard of Oz”.

10:33PM – Judy Garland’s three children, Liza Minnelli, Joey Luft, and Lorna Luft take a bow from their seats.

10:35PM – Singer Pink sings “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz”, which won Best Original Song at 1940’s Oscar Ceremony.

10:38PM – Commercial Break is On!

10:42PM – Ellen is dressed in a fairytale princess gown (Kate McKinnon’s SNL parody sketch rings true).

10:43PM – Jennifer Garner and Benedict Cumberbatch presents the Academy Award for Production Design (formerly Art Direction/Set Design).

10:44PM – Catherine Martin wins her second Oscar of the night, for Production Design for “The Great Gatsby”, while Set Designer Beverley Dunn wins for Set Design for “Gatsby”.

10:46PM – Chris Evans introduces another “Oscar Heroes” segment.

10:48PM – We’ve reached another Commercial Break, which starts with a Pepsi commercial with a plethora of movie quotes/catchphrases.

10:52PM – Glenn Close leads a tribute to those who left us in the last year.

10:55PM – In Memoriam: James Gandolfini, Karen Black, Tom Laughlin, Ruth Prawler Jhabvala (screenwriter), Carmen Zapata, Hal Needham, Richard Shepherd, Stuart Freeborn, Gerry Hambling (editor), Jim Kelly (actor), Stephenie McMillan (set decorator), Les Blank (documentarian), Eileen Brennan, Paul Walker, Fay Kanin (screenwriter, former Academy President), Charles L. Campbell (Sound Editor), Deanna Durbin, Frederic Back (animator), AC Lyles, Elmore Leonard, Annette Funicello, Petro Vlahos (sound engineer), Eduardo Coutinho, Saul Zaentz (producer), Riz Ortolani, Peter O’Tyoole, Ray Harryhausen, Brian Ackland-Snow (set decorator), Richard Griffiths, Sid Caesar, Roger Ebert, Shirley Temple Black, Joan Fontaine, Run Run Shaw, Juanita Moore, Mickey Moore (2nd Unit Director), Stefan Kudelski, Harold Ramis, Eleanor Parker, Ray Dolby (Engineer), Julie Harris, Max Schell, Richard Matheson (screenwriter), Gilbert Taylor (cinematographer), Tom Sherak (former Academy President), Esther Williams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman are among those we lost in the past year.

10:58PM – Bette Midler performs “The Wind Beneath My Wings”.

11:01PM – Commercial Break

11:04PM – “We just crashed Twitter”. – Ellen DeGeneres (on the Selfie)

11:05PM – Goldie Hawn introduces the final three nominees for Best Picture: “Philomena”, “Captain Phillips”, and “12 Years a Slave”.

11:08PM – John Travolta introduces the fourth and final Best Original Song nominee, “Let It Go” from this year’s Animated Feature winner, “Frozen”.

11:09PM – The lovely actress/singer of stage and screen, Idina Menzel performs the fourth and final Best Original Song nominee, “Let It Go” from this year’s Animated Feature winner, “Frozen”.

11:13PM – Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel present the Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Original Song.  Up first, Best Original Score.

11:14PM – Steven Price wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score for the movie “Gravity”.

11:16PM – Foxx and Biel recap the Original Song nominees.

11:17PM – “Let It Go” wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song for husband-and-wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.  Robert is now the latest EGOT winner.

11:18PM – Commercial Break

11:22PM – “I just borrowed Pharrell’s hat, and I figured that I would collect money for the pizza.” – Ellen

11:23PM – Robert DeNiro and Penelope Cruz present the Oscars for Screenplay.  Up first, Best Adapted Screenplay.

11:25PM – John Ridley wins the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for “12 Years a Slave” (based on the true story of Solomon Northup).  Ridley is the second black screenwriter to win this Oscar (and in the last five years).

11:26PM – Cruz and DeNiro also present the Original Screenplay category.

11:27PM – Spike Jonze wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for the film “Her”.

11:28PM – Commercial Break; Only 4 categories left

11:33PM – Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier are presenting the Academy Award for Best Director.  Poitier receives a standing ovation, for the 50th Anniversary of his historic Oscar win (as the first Black actor to win for Best Actor).

11:35PM – Alfonso Cuarón wins the Academy Award for Best Director for “Gravity”.

11:38PM – Commercial Break.  Only three categories left – Actor, Actress, and Picture.

11:41PM – Defending Best Actor champion Daniel Day-Lewis is on stage to present the Best Actress Oscar.

11:44PM – Cate Blanchett wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for the Woody Allen film “Blue Jasmine”.

11:48PM – “And here is America’s other sweetheart, Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence.” – Ellen

11:48PM – “Why are you laughing?  What’s so funny?” - Lawrence

11:48PM – Last year’s Best Actress winner (and America’s favorite bestie) Jennifer (don’t call me “J-Law”) Lawrence presents the penultimate category of the night, Best Actor in a Motion Picture.

11:51PM – Matthew McConaughey wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for “Dallas Buyers Club.”

11:55PM – Here it is!!  The 24th and FINAL category of the night.  Last night’s Razzie winner for Worst Supporting Actor (and father of last night’s Worst Actor winner) Will Smith presents the Oscar for Best Picture.

11:57PM – “12 Years a Slave” wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Brad Pitt accepts the Oscar on behalf of the producing team.

11:59PM – Steve McQueen has a laundry list of people to thank (literally).

12:00AM – It is Midnight on the East Coast, and Ellen calls it a night.  At three and a half-hours (plus), the 86th Annual Academy Awards is in the books.  The 2013-14 Movie Awards Season is in the books.  I’ve got to get a few ZZZZZ’s, so I can finish recording “The DJBC Happy Hour” in the morning.  Oh yeah, the pre-nominations for the 41st Annual Daytime Emmy Award nominations will be announced first thing in the morning.  Busy, busy morning.  Tomorrow TONIGHT (since it is officially Monday on the East Coast now) on “The DJBC Happy Hour”, a recap of the Oscars, plus a recap of the Golden Raspberry Awards, and a look at which of your favorite soap stars are STILL in the running for a Daytime Emmy Award.  Good night and good luck.
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- "American Hustle" went 0-10 on Oscar night, matching True Grit (2010) with the second-biggest shutout, behind "The Turning Point" (1977) and "The Color Purple" (1985).  "Hustle" became the first film since "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) to go 0-for-4 in each of the acting categories for a film that is nominated in all four acting categories.
- Songwriter Robert Lopez became the 12th member of the EGOT Club, winning Best Original Song (with his wife Kristen) for "Let It Go" from the Best Animated Feature winner "Frozen".
- Ellen's Oscar Selfie broke Twitter records for re-tweets.

Final Oscar/Razzie Predictions 2014

 

Final Academy Awards/Golden Raspberry Awards Predictions (2014)

Tomorrow night, the 34th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards will be held as the worst in motion pictures will be honored, and on Sunday night, the 86th Annual Academy Awards will air on ABC.  Here are The DJBC Happy Hour's final predictions for both ceremonies, linked below.

Academy Awards: http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com/post/78106916584/2014-academy-awards-the-final-predictions-on

Golden Raspberry Awards: http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com/post/78004880692/2014-golden-raspberry-awards-final

For more on the Golden Raspberry Awards, go to http://www.razzies.com.  For more on the Academy Awards, go to http://oscar.go.com.

1964 in Showbiz

1964 in Showbiz/The Four Major Showbiz Awards from 1964

On our brother blog DJBC Adventures, the blog from The DJBC Happy Hour radio program on WCRS-FM in Columbus, Ohio, there is a bonus podcast from last night’s broadcast, which featured songs from 1964.  1964 was a big year in music.  Four young men from Liverpool, England made their first North American appearance on a television program on a Sunday evening in early February in New York City, launching “The British Invasion” of music.  There were a lot of great television programs, motion pictures, plays, musicals, and songs from that year.  Here is who won the Major Awards in 1964, and some of the entertainment culture from 1964.

Emmy Awards (Presented in May 1964 for 1963-64 Television Season, April 1963-April 1964):

Comedy Program: The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Drama Program: The Defenders (CBS)
Variety Program: The Danny Kaye Show (CBS)
Music Program: Bell Telephone Hour (NBC)
Program of the Year: The Making of the President 1960 (ABC)
Actor, Series: Dick Van Dyke, The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Actress, Series: Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
Single Performance, Lead Actor: Jack Klugman, The Defenders, “The Blacklist” (CBS)
Single Performance, Lead Actress: Shelley Winters, Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre, “Two Is The Number” (NBC)
Supporting Actor: Albert Paulsen, Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” (NBC)
Supporting Actress: Ruth White, Little Moon of Alban: Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC)

More Winners: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0151524.html

Popular Television Shows: The Beverly Hillbillies (# 1 in 1963-64 season), Bonanza (# 1 in 1964-65 season), The Ed Sullivan Show, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle USMC, The Andy Griffith Show, The Lucy Show, The Lawrence Welk Show, The Fugitive, The Red Skelton Show, Petticoat Junction

Television Show Debuts: The Addams Family (September 18, ABC; 1964-1966); Another World (May 4, NBC; 1964-1999), Bewitched (September 17, ABC; 1964-1972), Gilligan’s Island (September 26, CBS; 1964-1967); Gomer Pyle USMC (September 25, CBS; 1964-1969), Jeopardy (Date, NBC/Syndication; 1964-1975, 1978-1979, 1984-present); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (September 22. NBC; 1964-1968), The Munsters (September 24, CBS; 1964-1966), Peyton Place (ABC; 1964-1969)

Grammy Awards (Presented in 1964, for 1963 songs):

Album of the Year: The Barbra Streisand Album
Record of the Year: “Days of Wine and Roses” (Henry Mancini)
Song of the Year: “Days of Wine and Roses” (Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer)
Best New Artist: Swingle Singers
Vocal Performance, Male: “Wives and Lovers”, Jack Jones
Vocal Performance, Female: The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand
Performance, Vocal Group: “Blowin’ in the Wind”, Peter, Paul, and Mary
More Winners: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0150546.html

Popular Songs: “She Loves You”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, “Twist and Shout”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Love Me Do”, “Eight Days a Week”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “All My Loving”, “Please, Please Me” (ALL by The Beatles); “Baby Love”, “Come See About Me”, and “Where Did Our Love Go” (ALL by The Supremes); “Anyone Who Had a Heart”, “Walk on By”, and “Don’t Make Me Over” (ALL by Dionne Warwick), “Everybody Loves Somebody” (Dean Martin), “I Get Around” and “Fun, Fun, Fun” (The Beach Boys), “She’s Not There” (The Zombies), “All Day and All of the Night” (The Kinks), “Hello Dolly” (Louis Armstrong), “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” (The Righteous Brothers), “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” (Manfred Mann), “Hey, Paula” (Paul and Paula), “The House of the Rising Son” and “I’m Crying” (The Animals), “Oh, Pretty Woman” (Roy Orbison), “Viva Las Vegas” (Elvis Presley), “You Don’t Own Me” (Lesley Gore), “Dancing in the Street” (Martha and the Vandellas), “Rag Doll” (The Four Seasons), “The Girl From Ipanema” (Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto), “A World Without Love” (Peter & Gordon), “A Summer Song” (Chad and Jeremy), “Chapel of Love” (Dixie Cups), “Time Is On My Side” (The Rolling Stones), “Suspicion” (Terry Stafford), “Under the Boardwalk” (The Drifters), “Come a Little Bit Closer” (Jay and the Americans), “Little Children” (Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas), “The Last Kiss” (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers), “Mr. Lonely” and “There! I’ve Said It Again” (Bobby Vinton), “Walk, Don’t Run ‘64” (The Ventures), “Baby, I Need Your Lovin’” (The Four Tops), “Cotton Candy” and “Java” (Al Hirt), “I Only Want to Be With You” and “Wishin’ and Hopin’” (Dusty Springfield)
More Popular Songs: http://tsort.info/music/yr1964.htm, http://www.songfacts.com/released-1964-1.php, http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-of-the-year/?year=1964

Oscars (Academy) Awards (Presented in 1964 for 1963 movies):

Best Picture: Tom Jones
Best Director: Tony Richardson, Tom Jones
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (NOTE: Poitier was the first black actor to win an Academy Award)
Best Actress: Patricia Neal, Hud
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas, Hud
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford, The V.I.P’s
Best Original Song: “Call Me Irresponsible” – Papa’s Delicate Condition

More Winners: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0148941.html

Popular Films that Came Out in 1964: “My Fair Lady” (Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning 8, including Best Picture), “Mary Poppins” (Nominated for 13 Academy Awards), “Becket”, “Topkapi”, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”, “The Americanization of Emily”, “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte”

Tony Awards (Presented in 1964 for 1963-64 Season):

Best Play: Luther (John Osborne)
Best Musical: Hello, Dolly! (Won a then-record 10 Tonys)
Producer, Play: The Deputy
Producer, Musical: Hello, Dolly!
Best Actor, Play: Alec Guinness, Dylan
Best Actress, Play: Sandy Dennis, Any Wednesday
Best Actor, Musical: Bert Lahr, Foxy
Best Actress, Musical: Carol Channing, Hello, Dolly!
Best Featured Actor, Play: Hume Cronyn, Hamlet
Best Featured Actress in a Play: Barbara Loden, After the Fall
Best Featured Actor in a Musical: Jack Cassidy, She Loves Me
Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Tessie O’Shea, The Girl Who Came to Supper
Best Director, Play: Mike Nichols, Barefoot in the Park
Best Director, Musical and Best Choreography, Musical: Gower Champion, Hello, Dolly! (both categories)
Best Author, Dramatic: Michael Stewart, Hello, Dolly!
Best Original Score: Hello, Dolly!
More Winners: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0153433.html

Plays That Debuted in 1964: Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, Funny Girl, The Subject Was Roses, After the Fall, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Foxy, Golden Boy (the Musical), Anyone Can Whistle

The 2014 (71st Annual) Golden Globe Awards Real-Time Reactions Recap

The 2014 Golden Globe Awards Real-Time Reactions

Bryan Curtiss
- The Bryan Awards & The DJBC Happy Hour

So, last night, the Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC.  The David O. Russell 1970s-era flick “American Hustle” won three Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.  Woody Allen won the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award for his years of work in film, which was accepted on his behalf by Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton.

(All Times are Eastern)

7:36PM – The 71^st Annual Golden Globe Awards are coming on in just a short moment on NBC, hosted for the second straight year by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.  Right now, I am watching the AFC Divisional Playoff between AFC West foes Denver and San Diego, with San Diego making a valiant effort to come back, twice down 17 points.  But, the Golden Globe Awards are the best of two worlds – Motion Pictures and Television.  This is called “The Party of The Year” for a reason.  The Golden Globe Awards are a pre-cursor, to some movie pundits to the Academy Awards, of which the nominees will be announced bright and early of Thursday morning.

7:55PM – The Broncos stave off a Charger comeback with a 24-17 win, one year to the day that the Broncos lost to the Ravens in the AFC Divisional Playoff, and one month to the day that the Chargers beat the Broncos at home.  And now, #Time2ChangeTheChannel.

7:56PM – The Red Carpet Show is winding down as people are heading to their seats.

7:58PM – Commercials, Commercials, Commercials…

7:59PM – This is a very hard show to predict, television-wise.  The Hollywood Foreign Press (basically a handful of foreign journalists) cling to the trendy (and sometimes) new programs.

8:00PM – Let the show begin!

8:01PM – “Welcome to the 71^st Annual Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Lee Daniels ‘The Butler’ Awards” – Tina Fey

8:01PM – “This is Hollywood, and if someone likes something, they will do it until they are sick and tired of it.” - Fey

8:03PM – “Danny and Danny and Bobby say ‘hi’.” – Amy Poehler (to Martin Scorsese); Who are Danny, Danny, and Bobby?

8:04PM – “Hi, Julia, you know us from TV.”  (Another classic Globes jab)

8:06PM – (Off the Record) “Sleep with your limo driver tonight, before he gets famous.” – Amy Poehler

8:08PM – “The Wolf of Wall Street broke Hollywood records by saying the ‘F’ word 506 times”.  That joke never gets old.

8:09PM – “You’re not going to be smug when SnapChat is up here accepting the award for Best Drama.” – Amy

8:10PM – “We’re going to get this show done in three hours, or as Martin Scorsese calls it, ‘Act One.’” – Fey

8:10PM – Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks the Golden Globe for Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

8:11PM – Jennifer Lawrence wins the Golden Globe for Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for “American Hustle”.

8:13PM – Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis present the Golden Globe for Supporting Actress in (Television).

8:14PM – Jacqueline Bisset wins the Golden Globe for the Starz movie “Dancing on the Edge”.

8:17PM – Bisset is rambling on as the cut-off music plays on.

8:18PM – We are at Commercial Break # 1

8:21PM – Welcome back.  Naomi Watts and Mark Ruffalo presents the Golden Globe for Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.

8:23PM – The HBO film “Behind the Candelabra” which won a record 11 Emmys in September, nabs the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.

8:24PM – Watts and Ruffalo also present the award for Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.

8:25PM – Elisabeth Moss wins the Golden Globe Award for Actress in a Miniseries or Made for Television Movie for the BBC America Miniseries “Top of the Lake”.

8:28PM – Matt Damon introduces the first Motion Picture – Drama nominee “Captain Phillips”.

8:28PM – “He really is a national treasure.” – Matt Damon (on Tom Hanks)

8:29PM – Commercial Break # 2

8:34PM – Theo Kingmar, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association President addresses the crowd.  “Welcome to the President’s Speech, or for those of you watching at home, ‘bathroom break.’”

8:36PM – Margot Robbie and Jonah Hill present the first nominee for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”  But first, Hill and Robbie are staring in space.  Hill acknowledges a prompter error.

8:37PM – Aaron Eckhart and Paula Patton present the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Television Series – Drama.

8:38PM – Bryan Cranston wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Television Series – Drama for “Breaking Bad”.

8:40PM – Eckhart and Patton also present the Golden Globe for Television Series – Drama.

8:41PM – The final half of the final season of “Breaking Bad” wins the Golden Globe for Television Series – Drama.

8:43PM – Commercial Break # 3

8:48PM – Steve Coogan and (real-life) Philomena Lee present the second nominee for Motion Picture – Drama, Philomena (who played by movie royalty, Dame Judi Dench).

8:49PM – Sean Combs, Kate Beckinsale, and Usher (Raymond IV) present the Golden Globe for Score in a Motion Picture.

8:50PM – Alex Ebert wins the Golden Globe for Score in a Motion Picture for composing the score to the motion picture “All Is Lost”.

8:51PM – “We were partyin’ on the same bus.” – Sean Combs; “He was behind me, unbuttoning my coat, saying ‘Let it flow!’” – Ebert

8:52PM – The trio (Combs, Beckinsale, and Usher) also present the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

8:54PM – “Ordinary Love” wins the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the Irish rock band U2 and Brian Burton for “Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom”.

8:55PM – “This is amazing.” – The Edge, accepting the Golden Globe for “Ordinary Love”

8:56PM – “This is very personal for us, very, very personal.” – Bono, acknowledging the late South African leader Nelson Mandela

8:58PM – Commercial Break # 4

9:01PM – Taylor Kinney, Jesse Spencer, and Amber Heard present the Golden Globe for Supporting Actor in a TV Series, Miniseries, or Made for Television Movie.

9:02PM – Jon Voight wins the Golden Globe for Supporting Actor in a TV Series, Miniseries, or Made for Television Movie for his role on the Showtime drama “Ray Donovan”.

9:05PM – Olivia Wilde presents the second Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nominee, the virtual romantic comedy “Her”.

9:06PM – Robert Downey Jr. presents the Golden Globe for Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.  “No matter whose name is in this envelope, I am the winner.” – Robert Downey Jr.

9:07PM – Amy Adams wins the Golden Globe for Actress in a Motion Picture for “American Hustle”.

9:08PM – “I always cry when I’m not supposed to, and when the director tells me to cry, I can’t, and it sucks.” – Amy Adams, accepting her Golden Globe for “American Hustle”; “Thank you (David O. Russell) for letting me know that a princess can punch.”  Adams acknowledges that this is her 15-year anniversary on moving to Hollywood.

9:09PM – Commercial Break # 5

9:14PM – Husband-and-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick introduce their daughter, Sosie Bacon, Miss Golden Globe. 

9:15PM - “And Mister Golden Globe, my son, Randy (Amy Poehler dressed in drag)”.

9:16PM – Bacon and Sedgwick present the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Television Series – Drama.

9:17PM – Robin Wright wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Television Series – Drama for her role as Claire Underwood in the Netflix drama “House of Cards”.

9:18PM – “Completely unexpected.  I have no speech.” – Robin Wright (who also acknowledges Merritt Wever’s Emmy upset last September); “Kevin, you’re the best play date ever.”  Short and sweet.

9:19PM – Jim Carrey presents the third Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nominee, the 1970s flick “American Hustle”.  “Dying is easy, Comedy is Hard.  I believe Shia LeBeouf said that.  Very young and very wise.”

9:20PM – Christoph Waltz presents the Golden Globe for Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

9:21PM – Jared Leto wins the Golden Globe for his role for Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture in the film “Dallas Buyers Club” as a transsexual with AIDS.

9:23PM – “To all the Rayonnes in the world, you are an inspiration.  Thank you very much.” – Jared Leto

9:23PM – Commercial Break # 6

9:27PM – Emma Thompson presents the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay.

9:28PM – Spike Jonze wins the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for his motion picture “Her”.

9:29PM – “I’m a terrible public speaker, and I’m bad at speaking English, and English is my only language.” – Spike Jonze, accepting his Golden Globe

9:31PM – Laura Dern presents the fourth nominee for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, “Nebraska”, which stars Dern’s father Bruce.

9:33PM – Julie Bowen and Seth Meyers present the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Series – Comedy or Musical.

9:34PM – “Best night ever.  Andy Samberg!” – Seth Meyers reading the envelope

9:34PM – Andy Samberg wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical for his role as Detective Jake Peralta in the Fox hit comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”.

9:35PM – “Oh, No!” – Andy Samberg, accepting his award, citing that he didn’t expect to win; “The Writers Kick ‘A’”.

9:36PM – Commercial Break # 7

9:40PM – Orlando Bloom and Zoë Saldana present the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

9:41PM – The Italian film “The Great Beauty” wins the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

9:44PM – Jimmy Fallon and Melissa McCarthy present the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.

9:46PM – Michael Douglas wins the Golden Globe for his role as the flamboyant pianist Liberace in the HBO film “Behind the Candelabra”.  NOTE to Announcer: Douglas won as a PRODUCER for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, NOT as an Actor.

9:48PM – Commercial Break # 8 (yup, I’m keepin’ a count)

9:52PM – Emma Watson and Chris Pine present the Golden Globe for Animated Feature Film (only three nominees).

9:53PM – “Frozen” wins the Golden Globe for Animated Feature Film.

9:55PM – The fifth and final nominee, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is presented (sorry, I wasn’t paying attention to who the presenter was, I was busy Facebooking) by Colin Farrell.

9:55PM – Chris O’Donnell and Emilia Clarke present the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy.

9:56PM – Golden Globe co-host Amy Poehler wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy for her role as Leslie Knope in “Parks and Recreation”.  “Saturday Night Live” sweeps the Comedy Lead Acting races.

9:56PM – “I’ve never won anything like this!” – Amy Poehler, accepting her Golden Globe for Parks & Recreation

9:58PM – Commercial Break # 9

10:02PM – Emma Stone introduces the clip show for Woody Allen, who is this year’s Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

10:06PM – Diane Keaton talks about Woody Allen (director/writer of 74 films in 48 years).

10:07PM – “179 of the most captivating actresses have appeared in Woody’s films” – Diane Keaton.  “They are in fact the hallmark of Woody’s work.”

10:11PM – Commercial Break # 10

10:15PM – Liam Neeson presents the third nominee for Motion Picture – Drama, “Gravity”.

10:16PM – Ben Affleck presents the nominees for Best Director of a Motion Picture.

10:17PM – Alfonso Cuaron wins the Golden Globe for Best Director of a Motion Picture for the film “Gravity”.

10:20PM – Chris Evans and Uma Thurman presents the Golden Globe for Television Series – Comedy or Musical.

10:21PM – Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” wins the Golden Globe for Television Series – Comedy or Musical.

10:22PM – Commercial Break # 11

10:26PM – The lovely Jennifer Lawrence presents the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

10:27PM – Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for the Scorsese flick “The Wolf of Wall Street”.

10:27PM – “I never guessed that I would never win for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

10:28PM – DiCaprio lauds the work of Bruce Dern

10:28PM – “I grew up in a generation of actors who adored your work.” – DiCaprio (on Scorsese)

10:29PM – Reese Witherspoon introduces the fourth nominee for Motion Picture – Drama, “12 Years a Slave”, directed by Steve McQueen (not the guy who starred in “Bullitt” and “The Thomas Crown Affair”)

10:31PM – Commercial Break # 12

10:35PM – Chris Hemsworth and Austrian race car driver Niki Lauda present the fifth and final Motion Picture – Drama nominee, “Rush”, directed by Opie Taylor/Richie Cunningham himself, Ron Howard.

10:37PM – Drew Barrymore presents the Golden Globe for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

10:38PM – “American Hustle” wins the Golden Globe Award for Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

10:40PM – Commercial Break # 13

10:45PM – Leonardo DiCaprio presents the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

10:45PM – Cate Blanchett wins the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the (2014 Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Winner) Woody Allen film “Blue Jasmine”.

10:46PM – “That creeped up under my belt.  A few vodkas later, and here we are.” – Cate Blanchett, accepting her award

10:48PM – Jessica Chastain presents the Golden Globe for Lead Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.

10:49PM – Matthew McConaughey wins the Golden Globe for his role as a tough cowboy with AIDS in “Dallas Buyers Club”.

10:50PM – “We weren’t TV kids.  We weren’t movie kids.  We played outside.” – Matthew McConaughey on what he did growing up

10:51PM – “This film wasn’t about dying, it was about living.  Let’s keep!” – McConaughey

10:51PM – Commercial Break # 14; Up next, future Golden Raspberry Winner (for “The Lone Ranger”) Johnny Depp (best known for his roles as Tom Hanson, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Sweeney Todd) presents the Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

10:56PM – Johnny Depp presents the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, perhaps the Oscar frontrunner heading into Thursday.

10:57PM – “12 Years a Slave” wins the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.

11:01PM – That is all for the 71^st Annual Golden Globe Awards.  Now I have to come up with material for a podcast that I am recording in the morning for the DJBC Adventures blog.  Thursday morning, the Oscar Nominations, and Wednesday morning, the Razzie Nominations.  #BusyMovieAwardsWeek

Bryan Curtiss is the host, head writer, and executive producer of “The DJBC Happy Hour” radio show on WCRS-FM, an all-volunteer operated community radio station in Columbus, Ohio.  The DJBC Happy Hour airs every Monday night at 8PM on WCRS-FM, which can be heard at the frequencies of 102.1 (i.e. New Albany, Easton, Bexley, Reynoldsburg, Westerville) and 98.3 (i.e. Upper Arlington, the Hilltop, Downtown Columbus, German Village, Clintonville) FM.  To find a podcast of the radio show, go to http://www.wcrsfm.org.  For The DJBC Happy Hour’s Tumblr blog, go to http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com.

The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Live Reactions

The 65^th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards – Live Reactions

The 65^th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are taking place from the Nokia Theatre in Hollywood, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, capping off an 11-hour day for CBS, which started with eight hours of NFL football (which included the Cleveland Browns upset of the Minnesota Vikings in the early game).  The Emmys celebrate the best of television.  There will be stars from some of our favorite shows presenting Emmys to some more of our favorite stars.  This year, the Choreography Emmy is part of the telecast.  In a controversial twist to the “In Memoriam” segment, there will be individual tributes to four actors and a television producer who all passed away this year: “The Sopranos” star James Gandolfini (tribute by Edie Falco), “Family Ties” creator and producer Gary David Goldberg (tribute by Michael J. Fox), “Glee” co-star Cory Monteith (tribute by Jane Lynch), “All in the Family” star Jean Stapleton (tribute by Rob Reiner), and satirist Jonathan Winters (tribute by Robin Williams).  I just got in from running a few errands after watching an exciting game between the Green Bay Packers and the Cincinnati Bengals, where there were more momentum swings in a Presidential election, as both teams turned the ball over four times each, but that is a fox trot, and this blog post is a thumb war.  Now back to topic.

8:04PM – The show is finally beginning after football ran over.  Aren’t you excited to celebrate television’s biggest night.  Let’s start with the Opening Sketch.

8:04PM – CBS President Les Moonves (as a Security Guard) lets Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) into a sound set with a lot of televisions, as Neil watches an entire season of television.

8:06PM – And there is a dance montage in this clip show, which includes “The Name Game” dance from “American Horror Story: Asylum”.

8:09PM – “For our younger audiences, that’s the thing on our phones.” – Neil Patrick Harris, on what the Emmys are celebrating

8:10PM – “These are remarkable times for television.” - NPH

8:10PM – “I am watching an episode of ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’ on my contact lenses.” - NPH

8:12PM – The last four Emmy hosts (NPH, Jimmy Kimmel, Jane Lynch, and Jimmy Fallon) duke it out on the Emmy stage.

8:13PM – Conan O’Brien joins the past four hosts on the stage.  “There were simpler times, there was no Honey Bee Boo.”  “Those were the days.  Back when the host was a God.” – Conan O’Brien

8:14PM – Kevin Spacey gives a Francis Underwood look from his seat.  “It’s all going according to my plan.”; (On Harris/Kimmel/Lynch/Fallon/O’Brien) “They couldn’t host a child’s birthday party.”

8:15PM – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wearing 3D glasses give Harris some hosting advice from their seats.  “We would be degrateful.”

8:16PM – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both up for Best Actress, and both lost to Harris for Special Class Program at last Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmys, present the Emmy for Supporting Actress for a Comedy Series.  Can Julie Bowen make it three in a row, or will Jane Krakowski sing a high note?  Or will one of the other five nominees win?

8:18PM – Merritt Wever wins the Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for “Nurse Jackie”.  BIG UPSET!  Bigger than Eastern Washington’s win over Oregon State.  NOBODY saw this coming.  How did she do it? 

8:19PM – “Thank you so much.  Thank you so much.  I’ve got to go.  Bye!”

8:19PM – Commercial Break; Excuse me while I troubleshoot Blogger problems.  The stupid browser won’t let me copy and paste during the break.

8:23PM – “For those of you on your DVR’s, I’m still back.  For Merritt Weaver, Best Speech Ever.”

8:24PM – LL Cool J and Malin Akerman present the Emmy for Writing in a Comedy Series.

8:24PM – “You’re part of writing team.  Who’s funnier?  You or your partner.” (Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon); “Who is your favorite cast member to write for?” (Other Nominees)

8:25PM – Tina Fey and Tracey Wingfield win the Emmy for Writing in a Comedy Series for “Last Lunch”, the second half of the “30 Rock” Series Finale.

8:27PM – Sisters Emily and Zooey Deschanel present the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

8:27PM – “The nominees represent all of the dads that TV has to offer.” – Zooey Deschanel on Comedy Series Supporting Actor

8:28PM – Tony Hale wins the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for “Veep”.  This is a gamble that paid off, considering Hale was also in “Arrested Development”, and opted only to submit his name for “Veep”.  ANOTHER HUGE UPSET!!!

8:29PM – Academy Award winner Robin Williams pays tribute to the late Jonathan Winters, an Ohio native, who got his first big break right here in Columbus, Ohio at WBNS 10TV in the 1950s.  Winters played Ork in “Mork and Mindy” and in 1991, Winters won an Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the short-lived sitcom “Davis Rules.”

8:31PM – After a pair of upsets, it’s time for another Commercial Break at the Emmy Awards.

8:36PM – “Please welcome my biological parents, Jon Hamm and Alec Baldwin.” – NPH

8:37PM –Alec Baldwin and a bearded Jon Hamm present the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

8:37PM – Julia Louis-Dreyfus wins her fourth Emmy in 16 nominations and her second consecutive Lead Actress Emmy for her role as Vice President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy “Veep”.

8:39PM – JLD thanks the entire cast, except Tony Hale (who is standing behind her)

8:40PM – Will Arnett and Emmy-winner Margo Martindale present the Comedy Guest Acting winners from last week’s Creative Arts Ceremony.  The two play a mother and son in CBS’s comedy “Meet the Millers”, which debuts next Thursday on CBS.

8:41PM – “‘Meet the Millers’ is the best show on television…ever.” - Will Arnett

8:42PM – Comedy Guest Actress winner Melissa Leo gives shout-outs to Bob Newhart and Elaine Stritch, before presenting the Emmy for Directing in a Comedy Series.

8:43PM – “What is your favorite line when directing?” (Question for first three nominees); “What director inspires you the most?” (Lena Dunham and Gail Mancuso)

8:43PM – Gail Mancuso wins only the second Emmy for Comedy Series Directing, and third in a row for “Modern Family” for the episode “Arrested”, but the Comedy upsets keep on coming.

8:44PM – “We’re not going to be playing ‘Poker Face’, but blurred lines.” – Gail Mancuso; “Thank you Mom and Dad for allowing me to watch all the Hitchcock I wanted.”

8:45PM – Jimmy Kimmel and Sofia Vergara present the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

8:45PM – Jimmy Kimmel: “Laughter might be the worst medicine there ever is.”
Sofia Vergara – “It could kill people.”

8:47PM – COMEDY UPSET CITY!!! Third win in four years for Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper for “The Big Bang Theory” for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.  Only Carroll O’Connor, Kelsey Grammer, Michael J. Fox, John Lithgow, and Don Adams have won at least that many Emmys in this category for the same role on a television show.

8:48PM – Rob Reiner pays tribute to the late Jean Stapleton, who won three Emmys for her role as Edith Bunker on “All in the Family”.

8:51PM – Commercial Break; Time to work on a title card for this blog post and for next week’s “The DJBC Happy Hour”.

8:55PM – Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, both up for Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for the HBO film “Behind the Candelabra” (winner of eight Emmys, thus far) introduce Sir Elton John in a musical tribute to Liberace and “Behind the Candelabra”.

8:57PM – Sir Elton John performs a song he wrote (with Bernie Taupin), “Home Again”, in tribute to Liberace.

9:03PM – Damon and Douglas also are presenting the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

9:04PM – Laura Linney (who is absent) wins the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for “The Big C: Hereafter”.

9:04PM – “She’s such a great actress, that she didn’t need to be here.” – Matt Damon on Laura Linney

9:06PM – Commercial Break, but the tribute to Cory Monteith is coming up in the next segment


9:08PM – Entertainment Weekly Emmy Awards Drinking Game: http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/09/22/emmys-2013-drinking-game-guide/

9:10PM – The cast of “How I Met Your Mother” does a fake PSA on “EHD”, Excessive Hosting Disorder.

9:10PM – “EHD affects many people – okay, only Neil.” – Cobie Smulders

9:11PM – Huffington Post Emmy Awards Drinking Game: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/emmys-2013-drinking-game_n_3962350.html

9:12PM – Arsenio Hall gets in on the “EHD” PSA.

9:12PM – “…at the Ryan Seacrest Center for Excessive Hosting…”

9:12PM – “It’s time to take off the bow tie and pick off the phone.”

9:13PM – Connie Britton and Blair Underwood present the Emmy for Writing in a Drama Series.

9:13PM – “I love that show.” – Connie Britton on Friday Night Lights

9:14PM – The late Henry Bromell wins the Emmy for “Q&A” for Homeland.  Henry’s widow Sarah Bromell accepts the award on Henry’s behalf.

9:14PM – Britton and Underwood also present the Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

9:15PM – Maggie Smith is not here, but don’t worry, Anna Gunn is your 2013 Supporting Actress in a Drama Series champion for her role as Skyler White on “Breaking Bad”.

9:15PM- “Bryan Cranston just told me to breathe.” – Anna Gunn accepting her Emmy on the stage

9:17PM – Jane Lynch pays tribute to her late “Glee” co-star Cory Monteith.

9:18PM – After the Commercial Break, The Amazing Race aims to win Emmy # 10, while Don Cheadle introduces the “Golden Musical Anniversary Tribute” segment.


9:24PM – “Here we are halfway through the show, but we’ve gotten a lot of tweets about why I haven’t done a musical number.” – Neil Patrick Harris

9:24PM – Neil Patrick Harris dances to a musical number during the middle of the show, “The Number in the Middle of the Show”

9:26PM – “The Emmy Gold Dancers” take to the stage.  Yes, I can’t make this stuff up.  Nathan Fillion (from “Castle”) and Sarah Silverman make an appearance in the number.

9:28PM – Mindy Kaling and Stephen Amell present the next Emmy, which is Outstanding Reality-Competition Program.  Can “The Amazing Emmy Juggernaut” race to the stage for the tenth time in eleven years, or will someone else?

9:29PM – “The Voice” wins the Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, making this the second time in the last four years that “The Amazing Race” loses.  (Finally)  It’s also the first time that a music-oriented reality show takes home this top honor (take that, American Idol).

9:31PM – Commercial Break time again.  This internet browser is so slow.

9:35PM – Diahann Carroll, the first African-American Emmy nominee and Lead Actress nominee Kerry Washington (who could be the first African-American Lead Actress winner tonight – Comedy or Drama) present the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

9:36PM – “My lead actor was Lloyd Nolan.  If you don’t know who that was…” – Diahann Carroll

9:38PM – Bobby Cannavale wins the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Gyp Rosetti in the third season of “Boardwalk Empire”.

9:38PM – “I didn’t write anything down.  I can’t believe I got included with this group of incredible actors.” – Bobby Cannavale

9:40PM – Julianna Margulies and Dylan McDermott present the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

9:41PM – “America is NOT the greatest country in the world”, and this is why Jeff Daniels won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for “The Newsroom” for that brilliant scene he submitted in the pilot episode.

9:41PM – “I usually don’t win anything.  With all respect to the AARP, this is better.” – Jeff Daniels (on winning Best Actor for “The Squid and the Whale” for Best Actor over 50)

9:42PM – The 1963 Tribute show begins with the CBS News Bulletin of the John F. Kennedy Assassination coverage, introduced by Don Cheadle, where television came of age – 1963, which included “I Have a Dream” and the Kennedy Assassination.  A few months later, in just 160 seconds, four dudes from Liverpool, England played to a packed house of screaming teenage girls on “The Ed Sullivan Show”.  How do these events tie in?  Cheadle: “Two emotionally charged events tied together.” (JFK and the Beatles)

9:45PM – Six-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood performs in a tribute to the 50^th Anniversary of 1963, when television came of age with The Beatles’ 1965 hit song “Yesterday”.

9:48PM – Commercial Break

9:54PM – “Bob Newhart, also an accountant.  Who knew?” – Neil Patrick Harris, when Newhart appears on the stage with the accountants from Ernst & Young

9:54PM – Jimmy Fallon presents the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series.  Who will have the 1 out of 7 chance of winning?

9:55PM – Claire Danes wins her second consecutive Emmy for her role as Carrie Mathison on “Homeland”.

9:56PM – Danes pays tribute to the late Henry Bromell in her acceptance speech.  Bromell won earlier for writing the “Q&A” episode, which also nabbed Danes this Emmy.

9:57PM – “Science fiction is back in a big way on CBS.” – Neil Patrick Harris

9:58PM – Dean Norris and Emilia Clarke present the winners for Guest Acting in a Drama Series.

9:59PM – Drama Guest Actor and Guest Actress winners Dan Bucatinsky and Carrie Preston present the Emmy for Directing in a Drama Series.  Can David Fincher be the latest A-list director to win this prize?

10:00PM – Academy Award nominee David Fincher wins the Emmy for Directing in a Drama Series for House of Cards.  Fincher is not present to accept the Emmy.

10:01PM – Jim Parsons and Bob Newhart, both Emmy winners for “The Big Bang Theory” tonight and last Sunday night, respectively, present the Emmy for Writing in a Variety Series.  But first, a standing ovation for Bob Newhart, who finally got off the schneid after 50-plus years of losing.

10:03PM – The Writing Team packages for Variety are pretty hilarious.

10:04PM – The Writing Team from “The Colbert Report” wins the Emmy for Writing in a Variety Series once again.

10:05PM – “The Emmys are so good this year.” – Stephen Colbert, accepting the Variety Writing Emmy on behalf of the writing team

10:06PM – Parsons and Newhart also present the Emmy for Directing in a Variety Series.

10:06PM – “What word do you use when you are frequently directing?” (The nominees’ question)

10:07PM – Don Roy King wins the Emmy for Directing in a Variety Series for “Saturday Night Live” for the fourth consecutive time, this time for the “Justin Timberlake” episode once again.

10:08PM – “Family Ties” star Michael J. Fox pays tribute to the late Gary David Goldberg, who created the ‘80s sitcom (which was set in Columbus), as well as “Spin City”.

10:09PM – The Choreography nominees are next, but first, another commercial break.  At which time, my internet browser completely froze.  Time to re-open things.

10:13PM – “We Are Men” – 2014 Silver Garbage Nominees

10:14PM – A clip of how the Choreography number (for the Emmy telecast) came to be, starting with the nominee reception, and the leg work that came in through the process.

10:16PM – Neil Patrick Harris sings “Luck Be a Lady”, choreographed by the nominated choreographers, with the tunes of shows like “Mad Men”, “Game of Thrones”, “American Horror Story”, and “Boardwalk Empire”.

10:18PM – The dancers dance to a cover of “Get Lucky”, also infused with shows like “Breaking Bad” and “The Big Bang Theory”.

10:19PM – Neil Patrick Harris and the six nominated choreographers are on the stage.  Reality Host winners Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn present the Emmy for Outstanding Choreography.

10:20PM – “So You Think You Can Dance” had four of the seven nominations, but Derek Hough, who had two of the remaining three, wins for his one solo nomination for Outstanding Choreographer for “Dancing with the Stars”.

10:21PM – “Thank you to the Emmys for inviting us to this party.” – Derek Hough

10:22PM – Neil Patrick Harris’s  “How I Met Your Mother” co-stars Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders present the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series.  Will “The Daily Show” make it 11 in a row, or will another champion emerge?

10:23PM – THE STREAK IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  THE STREAK IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!  THE STREAK IS FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!!!!  THE DAILY SHOW LOSES!!!!!!!!!!  “The Colbert Report” wins the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series.

10:24PM – “To say, ‘It’s always great to be nominated.’  That’s a lie.  This is better.” – Stephen Colbert, accepting the Variety Series Emmy for “The Colbert Report”

10:24PM – Edie Falco pays tribute to her late co-star James Gandolfini, who won three Emmys for “The Sopranos”.

10:26PM – Commercial Break

10:32PM – “This just in.  Nobody in the office is winning their Emmy pool.” – Neil Patrick Harris

10:32PM – “Mom” stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney present the Emmys for Writing and Supporting Actor for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special.

10:33PM – The upsets keep coming.  Abi Morgan wins the Emmy for Writing in a Miniseries or Movie for the BBC America limited series “The Hour”.  It looks like the 37 year-old record for most wins by a TV movie may be safe, unless Scott Bakula wins.

10:34PM – Janney and Faris also present the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.  You knew that, silly.

10:35PM – (The fourth time is the charm) James Cromwell wins his very first Emmy win, for Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role as the sadistic Dr. Arden in “American Horror Story: Asylum”.

10:37PM – “The Big Bang Theory” co-star Kaley Cuoco and Academy CEO Bruce Rosenblum come to the stage to talk about the Academy Foundation.

10:37PM – “…and I’m here for the sex appeal.” (that would get canned laugh during the Bryan Awards)

10:38PM – Cuoco and Rosenblum conclude with the In Memoriam Segment.

10:38PM – Sir David Frost, Dennis Farina, Annette Funicello, Eydie Gorme, Dale Robertson, Larry Hagman, Leslie Frankenheimer, Conrad Bain, Maxine Stuart, Lee Thompson Young, Preston Davis, Alan Kirschenbaum, James Loper, Lou Myers, Milo O’Shea, Fran Bascom, Lois Smith (publicist), Roger Ebert, Emily Squires, Bonnie Dotre, Eileen Brennan, Bonnie Franklin, Russell Means, Milt Hoffman, Jack Shea, Jeanne Cooper, Allan Arbus, Henry Bromell, David Connell, Charles Durning, Richard Matheson, Harry Carey Jr., Ken Venturi, Pat Summerall, Steve Sabol, Alex Karras, Jack Klugman, Jenni Rivera, Eddie Michaels, Michael Ansara, Charles Lisanby, Fay Kanin, Emanuel Steward, Ray Dolby, Julie Harris, Deborah Raffin, Patti Page, and Andy Williams were among the other people in television – in front of, or behind the camera that passed away this past year, aside from the five individual tributes that took place during the course of the telecast.

10:42PM – Commercial Break.  I need to give my left arm/hand a rest before the next act.


10:46PM – Andre Braugher and Mark Harmon present the Emmy for Directing in a Miniseries or Movie.

10:47PM – As predicted, Steven Soderbergh wins the Emmy for Directing in a Miniseries or Movie for “Behind the Candelabra”.

10:48PM – Braugher and Harmon also present the Emmy for the Lily Rabe-missing Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

10:49PM – Ellen Burstyn wins for Supporting Actress in the same category that had a rule named after her – Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for the USA Limited Series, “Political Animals”.

10:49PM – “I would like to thank the Academy for voting for me for being on screen long enough.” - Burstyn

10:50PM – “I would like to thank Greg Berlanti for writing a role for a woman over 65 who still had a lot of juice.” - Burstyn


10:50PM – Commercial Break; Also on tonight are the series finale of “Dexter”, and the Chicago Bears vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers on “Sunday Night Football”.

10:55PM – Bryan Cranston and Claire Danes present the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, and Outstanding Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.  Up first, is Michael Douglas beatable?

10:56PM – Michael Douglas wins his first Emmy.  He won for his role as Wladziu Valentino Liberace in the HBO film “Behind the Candelabra”, which is Emmy # 10 for the HBO film, which needs one more to tie “Eleanor and Franklin”

10:57PM – “Matt, you are only as good (long laugh) as your other hand.” – Michael Douglas; “You really deserve half of this.  You want the bottom or the top (another long laugh)”?

10:58PM – Danes and Cranston, as mentioned are presenting the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries or Made for Television Movie.  Do I smell another upset, or will HBO pull off an Emmy masterpiece?

10:59PM – “Behind the Candelabra” wins the Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie, winning 11 Emmys, tying the 37 year-old record set in 1976 by “Eleanor and Franklin”.  Coincidentally, “Candelabra” also won 11 Bryan Awards this year.

11:00PM – “I don’t do it all.  Everyone else does it all, and I get all the credit.” – Jerry Weintraub, accepting the Emmy for “Behind the Candelabra”

11:01PM – Only two more categories left – Best Comedy and Best Drama.  Will “Modern Family” win for the fourth year, or will a new Comedy Champion emerge?  Who will win the hotly contested Drama race – “Breaking Bad”?  “Downton Abbey”  “Game of Thrones”?  “Homeland”?  “House of Cards”?  “Mad Men”?  Find out after this last commercial break.

11:04PM – Will Ferrell presents the final two awards of the night, with his three son of the stage (dressed in T-shirts and shorts).  First up, Outstanding Comedy Series.

11:05PM – “Unfortunately, Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith were supposed to present this award, but they both dropped out at the last minute, and I was called 45 minutes ago.” – Ferrell

11:05PM – “Modern Family” wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for the fourth year in a row.  Only this and “Frasier” have won four consecutive Comedy Series Emmys in a row, and only those two, “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “All in the Family”, and “Cheers” have won four or more in this race.

11:06PM – “We have the deepest respect for our co-nominees.” – Steven Levitan

11:06PM – “This must be one of the most saddest Emmys ever.” – Steven Levitan, accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for “Modern Family”

11:07PM – For the second straight year, Steven Levitan gets cut off at the end.

11:08PM – “Breaking Bad” wins the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, just one week before its series finale.

11:09PM – “Holy crap!  I did not see this coming.” – Vince Gilligan, accepting the Drama Series Emmy for “Breaking Bad”

11:10PM – The show started four and a half minutes late, and is going on eleven minutes over, so Neil Patrick Harris will not be singing this song at the end (Yes, you HAVE to click the “Play” icon): http://djbcadventures.tumblr.com/post/61121893040/the-13th-annual-bryan-awards-scorecard-results

11:34PM – Sorry for the long delay.  I was watching the late local news, and a story on a local theatre group’s big milestone.  But, next Monday on “The DJBC Happy Hour”, television’s biggest night.  From the dance numbers, to the individual tributes, from “Behind the Candelabra” winning a co-record 11 Emmys, to the Opening Sketch and Monologue.  The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Emmys.  Who looked like a million bucks on the red carpet, and who looked like the South Florida Bulls against McNeese State?  That, and the Creative Arts and Silver Garbage Awards, on the next “The DJBC Happy Hour”, which will be recorded later this week, and posted online at http://wcrsfm.org as soon as it is produced.  It will also air next Monday, September 30 at 8PM ET on WCRS-FM, at 102.1, which can be heard in New Albany, Easton, Gahanna, Bexley, Worthington, and Reynoldsburg; and 98.3, which can be heard in Marble Cliff, the Hilltop USA, Clintonville, German Village, the King-Lincoln District, and the Short North neighborhoods, among places, and online at http://www.wcrsfm.org.  Good night, everyone!  And thank goodness that this was the first time in 11 years that “The Daily Show” did NOT win for Best Variety Series.