WHO (else) IS COVERING THEM?

• TheMovieBlog.com will be “live-podcasting” – posting short podcasts between various segments of the show.
• Defamer will be liveblogging, also Twittering from the Kodak itself!
• Styledash, though likely it’ll be more about the clothing than the movies.
• Nikki Finke will be liveblogging.

WHO IS NOMINATED?
The official list, straight from the Academy itself.

Sorry it was late. Here’s my liveblog of the Oscars:

THE POST
Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth

8:50ish – Very funny thing between Will Ferrel, Jack Black, and John Reilly

Achievement in Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth

9:00 – Abigail Breslin just screwed up.

Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet

9:03 – Jaden screwed up now.

Best Live Action Short: West Bank Story

9:03 – West Bank Story acceptance speech brought us a new word: Sticktoitivness. West Bank Story’s website is down, unfortunately. Looked good.

9:11 – Hollywood Sound Effects Choir. This is pretty crazy. I don’t know if I believe it.

Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima

9:16 – Just cut off one of the Sound Editing guys

Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

9:24 – Ellen is wandering

9:30 – Randy Newman and James Taylor are singing/playing song from Cars
9:32 – Melissa Etheridge singing her song from An Inconvenient Truth

9:35 – Al Gore and Leo are on stage… Leo says – “Is there anything you want to announce?”

9:37 – We were this close to having Al Gore run again for president.

Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet

9:45 – Screenwriting time… doing the tribute montage now

9:48 – This montage was too long

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed

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10:00 – “one singular problem”

Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette

10:04 – Oh goodness, Tom Cruise is on stage. Honoring Sherry Lansing.

10:11 – First funny Ellen moment all night – Ellen has Stephen Spielberg take a picture with her and Clint Eastwood – for Myspace. You had to see it, it was funny

Achievement in Cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth

Readers, feel free to comment. Satisfied with how the Academy voted? We’re always curious!

Best Visual Effects: Pirates of the Carribean

10:22 – Can they please stop cutting people off?!

10:28 – Enduring another long montage, this isn’t as bad as adapted screenplay though

Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others!!! THE MOST SHOCKING UPSET OF THE NIGHT – Pan’s Labyrinth does not get the Oscar!

10:33 – I’m mad. Pan’s Labyrinth deserved the Foreign Language Oscar – it managed not only to be a fantastic film but it threw itself into the mainstream. I’m mad.

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

10:41 – Short break, I hope I didn’t miss anything. I’m going to bet on An Inconvenient Truth losing (when we get there). I just have a gut feeling.

Short Form Documentary: The Blood of Yingzhou District

10:44 – Jerry Seinfeld. I think he wants to host. Let’s let him.

Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth. I was wrong.

Special OSCAR for lifetime score achievement, Ennio Morricone

11:00 – Since when was Clint Eastwood a translator?

Best Original Score: Babel

11:09 – Short bit on AMPAS.
11:10 – Kirsten Dunst is a zombie.

Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

11:19 – Announcer sayz: “[Jennifer Lopez] is a reason for a high-definition television.”
11:20 – Performances from Dreamgirls by the cast themselves. This is a performance that I will admit I don’t mind.
11:27 – Dreamgirl bit really rocked. I dug that.

11:28 – The one that they “can’t talk about” is Hairspray. John Travolta is playing “Edna Turnblad”, a character pioneered by Harvey Fierstein on Broadway (the character is female).

Best Original Song: Melissa Etheridge, I Need to Wake Up, An Inconvenient Truth

11:33 – Little Miss Sunshine spotlight.

11:36 – Another montage. Next year let’s lose the montages.

11:40 – I love how they’re doing the editing sequences – showing the various shots that are online and showing the used cut. For some though, I’d assume more cameras are being used than three.

Achievement in Film Editing: The Departed

11:44 – Honoring those we’ve lost this year. Don Knotts, we hardly knew ye. Other notables: Joe Barbera, and Sidney Sheldon, Robert Altman, and Peter Boyle (no clips from Raymond for him).

When did IMDB become so beautiful? They lost the Times New Roman…

Actress in a Leading Role: Helen Mirren, The Queen.

11:53 – YES! /me is happy

11:59 – Can we fire Ellen now? She sucks. I’m sorry, she’s just begging for laughs and she ain’t gettin’ ‘em.

12:07 – Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg on stage to present Best Director. No doubt to Scorsese.

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

HERE IT IS FOLKS, THE BIG ONE…

Best Picture: The Departed

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Well folks, that’s all. The Oscars for the ’06-’07 year of films are now over. More thoughts tomorrow. Maybe. I might be too tired from all the hoopla from tonight.