It’s Oscar time! And we’re going to be providing a (nearly) live update of the winners throughout the night here at BuddyTV. Will your favorites win? Lose? Keep checking back over the next few hours for the results.
There are a whole bunch of awards to come…
But first, there’s a lot of banter meant to appeal to a younger demographic. They do this by recreating the Oscar-movie montage popularized by Billy Crystal over a decade ago. Oh well, what can you do? It is the Oscars, after all. You get the youth vote over on Nickelodeon anyway.
I’m sure we’ll get to the awards eventually.
Oh cool! Tom Hanks to give out something or other. Or maybe not. He’s talking about older movies for some reason I can’t follow. Let’s hope it leads to an award.
First…
Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg and Karen O’Hara)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan)
Inception (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat)
The King’s Speech (Eve Stewart and Judy Farr)
True Grit (Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh)
And the Oscar goes to… Alice in Wonderland (Robert Stromberg and Karen O
Hara)
Cinematography
Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
Inception (Wally Pfister)
The King’s Speech (Danny Cohen)
The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)
True Grit (Roger Deakins)
And the Oscar goes to… Inception (Wally Pfister)
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
And the Oscar goes to… Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Eventually. After Kirk Douglas stalls for awhile. Melissa Leo may also win the award for most overwhelmed by the award. First bleeped out obscenity of the night!
Justin Timberlake looks very out of his element. Mila Kunis looks more comfortable. And hey, there are cartoons!
Best Animated Short Film
Day & Night (Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let’s Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Bastien Dubois)
And the Oscar goes to… The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Best Animated Feature Film
How to Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois)
The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
And the Oscar goes to… Toy Story 3
The Academy Awards will now celebrate how young and hip they are by showing a flashback to the original 1929 awards. Way to go Oscars!
Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours (Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy)
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)
And the Oscar goes to… The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
Best Original Screenplay
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg)
The King’s Speech (David Seidler)
And the Oscar goes to… The King’s Speech (David Seidler)
Best line of the night! “Where’s the microphone?”
And we have a Charlie Sheen joke made by a cross-dressing James Franco/Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Followed by Helen Mirren and Russell Brand in the weirdest presenter combination ever.
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful (Mexico)
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law/Hors-la-Loi (Algeria)
And the Oscar goes to… In a Better World (Denmark)
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
And the Oscar goes to… Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Best Original Score
How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)
The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)
Inception (Hans Zimmer)
And the Oscar goes to… The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Best Sound Mixing
Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King’s Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgely)
Salt (Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland)
And the Oscar goes to… Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick)
Best Sound Editing
Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Bierkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P. Stoeckinger)
And the Oscar goes to… Inception (Richard King)
Time for the technical Oscars! But we don’t get to hear their names. So never mind.
Best Makeup
Barney’s Version (Adrien Morot)
The Way Back (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng)
The Wolfman (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey)
And the Oscar goes to… The Wolfman (Rick Baker and Dave Elsey)
Best Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
I Am Love (Antonella Cannarozzi)
The King’s Speech (Jenny Beavan)
The Tempest (Sandy Powell)
True Grit (Mary Zophres)
And the Oscar goes to… Alice in Wonderland (Colleen Atwood)
Song time! Kevin Spacey! Randy Newman! Mandy Moore and the guy from Chuck! (Yes, I know Zachary Levi’s name.) And I guess that’s it for now.
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Killing in the Name (Jed Rothstein)
Poster Girl (Sara Nesson and Mitchell W. Block)
Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Sun Come Up (Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)
And the Oscar goes to… Strangers No More (Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Best Live-Action Short Film
The Confession (Tanel Toom)
The Crush (Michael Creagh)
God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)
And the Oscar goes to… God of Love (Luke Matheny)
Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz)
Gasland (Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley)
And the Oscar goes to… Inside Job (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
Darn. No Banksy on the stage. Oh well. Instead, Billy Crystal. Not quite as anonymous but still pretty cool. But not new or hip. Seriously, Academy. If you want to appeal to the younger generation, you probably shouldn’t devote half of the program to footage of previous ceremonies and tributes to old movies.
Best Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland (Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi)
Hereafter (Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell)
Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Iron Man 2 (Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick)
And the Oscar goes to… Inception (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb)
Best Film Editing
Black Swan (Andrew Weisblum)
The Fighter (Pamela Martin)
The King’s Speech (Tariq Anwar)
The Social Network (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter)
127 Hours (Jon Harris)
And the Oscar goes to… The Social Network (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter)
More music stuff! Jennifer Hudson! A.R. Rahman and Florence without the machine! Gwyneth Paltrow completing the awards show circuit!
Best Original Song
“We Belong Together” (Toy Story 3, Randy Newman)
“I See the Light” (Tangled, Alan Menken and Glenn Slater)
“If I Rise” (127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido and Rollo Armstrong)
“Coming Home” (Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey)
And the Oscar goes to… “We Belong Together” (Randy Newman, Toy Story 3)
No! Celine Dion is singing! Why is this happening?!? Oh, OK. It’s the dead-people montage. Sigh…
What’s with the crazy poofy skirts? Why can’t you all just dress like Anne Hathaway?
Best Directing
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
The Fighter (David O. Russell)
The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
And the Oscar goes to… The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
That doesn’t bode well for The Social Network…
The Governor’s Awards went to Eli Wallach, Jean-Luc Goddard, Kevin Brownlow, Francis Ford Coppola. And three of them (not the French one) are now on stage to get clapped for again. Yay for old men deemed important to cinema!
Best Actress
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
And the Oscar goes to… Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Umm, Natalie? You have to stop talking before you give birth.
Best Actor
Javier Bardem (Biutiful)
Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
And the Oscar goes to… Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
Shocking! Or not. OK, hands up everyone who thought Colin Firth was going to puke onstage.
We’re almost done! Almost done! Just the big one now! Will it be The King’s Speech? The Social Network? I’m going to go crazy here and pick Winter’s Bone to win it all!
I never get these things right anyway, so why not?
Why exactly is the theme for Jurassic Park what they decided to introduce Steven Spielberg with?
Best Picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
And the Oscar goes to… The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin)
That’s the Oscars for this year! Did your favorites win? Or are you angry to the point of throwing things at your TV? Did you ave a favorite or least-favorite moment? Leave a comment below to let us know!
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