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

the iPhone Advertisement is online

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.

Synfig, the Free and Open Source animation studio, needs your help to stay alive!

The project, which began life as a proprietary tool for the Voria animation studio, was open sourced upon the closure of Voria. Unfortunately, due to a lack of interested developers and community, the project has slowed.

Robert Quattlebaum, founder of the project, posted a message on his blog about the status of the project as of now.

The project is not dead per-se, but I am not able to contribute to it in any significant capacity any more other than to be a resource for anyone with questions. Paul Wise, who has all but taken over managing the project, is currently on a three-month long sailing trip. Things have grown a bit stagnant without him.

Think you can help the project? Able to report bugs and develop? Any support helps. YouMakeMedia fully supports what Synfig is trying to do, and wishes it the best. Personally, I know I’ll be seeing if there is any way that I can contribute.