It’s Academy Awards night, and like all of you I’m on the red carpet being served mint juleps by beautiful slave girls. Wait no, that’s George Clooney. No, I’m at home on my couch watching in my underwear (sexy), and I’ll be keeping you updated on what happens tonight. This page will be updated live, with various rumblings about what’s happening, and then at the bottom you’ll find a listing of all the nominees which I’ll update with the winners as they’re announced. So if you’re here just to find out what won and want to skip on my blather, just scroll to the bottom. In the meantime, here we go. Here’s what’s happening with the 30th Annual Academy Awards, right now!
7:30 Classic movie stars run through the streets! Delorean sighting! Terminator delivers the Oscars!
7:32 Jon Stewart is on stage, and looking confident. Opens with a writers strike joke. Why not?
7:36 Jon Stewart delivers the first Jew joke. Redeems himself with a Norbit joke. “Too often, the Academy ignores movies… that aren’t good.”
7:41 First award: Jennifer Garner presents Achievement in Costume Design. Elizabeth: The Golden Age wins! Corsets are always a big player in the costume category. Apparently they’re as hard to make as they are to wear. At least the speech was nice and short.
7:47 George Clooney sidles on stage to waste time by talking about the history of the Oscars. 80 years of Oscar… and the best they could come up with to start the ensuing montage is P. Diddy. My heart will go on… as long as Celine Dion stops singing soon. Ended with Chaplin though, and I guess that balances out the P. Diddy opening.
7:51 Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell to present animated features…. but only after Carell and Stewart trade shots. And the Oscar goes to… Ratatouille!!! Yes. It had to. There was no other option. What the hell was Surf’s Up doing nominated? Brad Bird accepts, and his speech is as genius as his movies are. Go Pixar!
Oscar results updated live. Nominees are below, as the winner in each category is announced, it will be highlighted in red.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page- Juno
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Surf’s Up
Persepolis
Ratatouille
DIRECTING
Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
MUSIC (SCORE)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
MUSIC (SONG)
"Falling Slowly" - Once
"Happy Working Song" - Enchanted
"Raise it Up" - August Rush
"So Close" - Enchanted
"That’s How You Know " - Enchanted
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyń
Mongol
12
ART DIRECTION
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
COSTUME DESIGN
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers
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