Live Oscar Award updates
Keep checking here for live Oscar award winners updates. We’ll post them as they happen, along with any random bits of snark that cross our minds.
First off, Hugh Jackman is starting out strong… Let’s hope he stays that way. Funny, musical, only intentionally cheesy.
They’ve brought back past best supporting actresses, Tilda Swinton, Eva Marie Sainte, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjelica Houston and Goldie Hawn (oh lord, I forget that she won) to award the best supporting actress trophy (btw, Whoopi, WTF?).
Performance by an actress in a supporting role: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Again, with the funny, Tina Fey and Steve Martin, bringing the Original Screenplay award, slamming Scientology and self-importance.
And an interesting actual peek at the screenplays
Original Screenplay: “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
Adapted Screenplay: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Gotta love how the camera keeps panning Brangelina during Jennifer Aniston’s presentation…
Best Animated Feature: “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton (that was a total gimme)
Best Animated Short Film: “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato (no opinion on that, but yay for the Japanese guy who realizes he can’t speak English and just goes for the joke)
Achievement in art direction: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
Please don’t let this be the beginning of a trend…
Achievement in costume design: “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathe and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
Achievement in makeup: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
Stop it, Academy. That was not good makeup. Lots of prosthetics, lots of vinyl. Not good makeup. Why are you people so enamored of this movie?
Now the montage of movies people have actually seen as opposed to the pretentious shit that was nominated. That’s the only way High School Musical and Twilight are making it on that stage.
Hmm, the Phoenix joke is funny, but was funnier in its incarnation at the Spirit Awards earlier this weekend. Natalie Portman got the best line off, though: “You look like you work in an Hasidic meth lab.”
Achievement in cinematography: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle
See, back on track, Oscars. Keep up the good work.
Here’s Jessica Biel and her toilet paper roll of silk falling out of her dress. Don’t you people employ stylists? She’s dressed about on par with the attendees of the scientific and technical awards.
Seriously – they are just putting these montages together so the rest of the movie-going populace can identify with the awards.
Best short film: “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank
At least Beyonce has changed out of her horrible dress for this pointless musical number.
As a friend said tonight: “Dear Hugh, this was terrible. love, me.”
Followed by the obligatory and non-sensical HSM-couple shot so people care about the Oscars for a few minutes. Baz Luhrman created that number? Bad, Baz, bad. Go back to Australia for a year.
Another round-up of former winners for the best supporting actor category – Cuba Gooding, Jr., Christopher Walken, Kevin Kline, Alan Arkin, Joel Grey
Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger (I’m so sure of this I’m posting before the actual announcement)
See? Here come his father, mother and (unexpectedly gorgeous) sister. And quiet in the house for a simple, sweet speech from a mournful family.
Best documentary feature: “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
Best documentary short subject: “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
Achievement in visual effects: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
What are these people thinking? Will Smith was right – Brad Pitt looked like a garden gnome.
Achievement in sound editing: “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King
Wall-E should have gotten this – there’s no dialogue, just noises, kids – but perhaps the Academy is trying to make up for the last category of stupidity.
Achievement in sound mixing: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
I love this movie hard, but I’m not sure general excellence is cause to award a movie in every category.
Achievement in film editing: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens
Time out to honor homophobe Jerry Lewis. You know, since we have to balance out the “Milk” nominations.
Oh, Alicia, I’m not feeling the hair or the dress. Not sure why, but just not a great color.
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score): (rooting for Wall-E or Slumdog…) “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
I think my “win-everything-it’s-nominated-for prediction will come true…
For the best song category, they might split their votes here. And WTF is up with the dancers? Who is choreographing tonight? Seriously.
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original song): “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
Best foreign language film of the year: “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
And the goodbye reel. Sniff. Queen Latifah is bringing the angst.
Achievement in directing: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle
Love the Tigger bouncing on stage – and requisite family shot – and the hometown thanks. One more and it’s a sweep…
Shirley MacLaine, Halle Berry, Marion Cotillard, Sophie Loren (holy god, so much bad – the hair, the skin, the dress, the jewelry. Orange is the theme here. Did she just dive in a tub of bad taste?), Nicole Kidman doing the group thing again
Performance by an actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (Weinstein Copmany) See, that Extras scene was a bit clairovoyant. And the whistle from her father was just adorable.
Robert de Niro, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins, Adrien Brody and Michael Douglas out for the best actor nod. We’re now about 40 minutes over. The thing didn’t start til 8:30 p.m. for some reason.
Why the hell is Robert Pattinson just behind Mickey Rourke’s shoulder? The cast of “Slumdog Millionaire” is, like, 10 rows back and they were frickin’ nominated for something.
Performance by an actor in a leading role: Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
Aw, would have liked another crazy speech by Mickey, but Sean is a good one, too, for us Commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns. And apparently there was picketing at the Oscars, so says Mr. Penn.
And here we are, the final category, best motion picture… I’m sticking with Slumdog. And that was actually a good, relevant montage.
Best motion picture: “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer
See? Where’s my cookie?
And wonder how much these movies paid to be in the credit? ‘Cause I’m thinking we won’t be seeing “Night at the Museum 2″ or “Fame” anywhere but in a pointless montage…
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