Oscar Live Blog. Hour #1
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 8:49PM ARRIVALS | HOUR 1 (YOU ARE HERE) | HOUR 2 | HOUR 3
8:31 WOW. Killer Montage You know it worked because I wanted to watch every Best Picture nominee again and I was so sick of all 10, five minutes ago.
8:34 "I loved you in Tron" So far the show is highlarious. Morgan Freeman awesome cameo combined with self-deprecating humor "soothing voiced narrator". And Anne even made a Black Swan joke funny and Black Swan jokes are so mid-January 2011.
8:41 GONE WITH THE WIND shout out. Classy. Although very WTF random. I'm not liking where this is going with the Cinematography + Art Direction = Best Picture. Eyesore in Wonderland wins. It's all uphill from here. Cinematography = Inception. Sorry Roger Deakins. You'll have to wait for #10.
8:51 Kirk Douglas. Wow Old Hollywood shout out. Take that 2009 Oscars!
8:52 Oh this is sweet. Kirk Douglas said James Franco looks better outside the cave. To Anne Hathaway "Where were you when I was making pictures?" SUPPORTING ACTRESS (I'M SO NERVOUS) MELISSA LEO. She used the naughty "F" Word. I'm glad they didn't play her off the stage. Kirk Douglas was SO fun.
9:01 "It's the young and hip Oscars" Anne Hathaway responding to Melissa Leo's F Bomb. hee.
9:02 BANKSY'S IDENTITY REVEALED: Justin Timberlake. Although I am so grossed out that they just reminded us that Shrek (2001) won the first animated feature Oscar.
9:04 ANIMATED SHORT = The Lost Thing. I'm doing T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E on my predictions but I never care about that. I just wanna love the movies. ANIMATED FEATURE = Toy Story 3. I feel like a lot of people won't udnerstand why Lee Unkrich was so "i can't believe this" It's because he's one of the only Pixar people who didn't have an Oscar.
9:14 ADAPTED SCREENPLAY = THE SOCIAL NETWORK. So... seeing Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin in white tuxedos totally shocked me. It's a rare sight. Paddy Chayevsky "NETWORK (1976)" shout out. Nice.
9:15 BTW I think it's excellent that Anne Hathaway is hosting on a night where they're referencing Old Hollywood and Classic Films. She gets it. One of the few young stars who does. Nice presentation of the Screenplays with the changes..ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY= THE KINGS SPEECH.
9:23 A tradition of singing" Anne Hathaway. Bring it girl. ♪ ♫ On My Own cuz someone is Hugh JackAss. ♪ ♫ Can we give her the Emmy right now. James Franco in drag.
9:24 Russell Brand misinterpreting Helen Mirren's French. Did they fire Bruce Vilanche? Some of this presenter banter is actually funny.
9:28 FOREIGN FILM = Susanne Bier's IN A BETTER WORLD. I love this woman. Though I haven't seen this film yet.
9:30 SUPPORTING ACTOR = CHRISTIAN BALE
His beard looks like one of those fake ones that people wear that loop around the ears. It's so... round. Like a dangerous redheaded Santa Claus. But the best comment on this came from Scott Feinberg on twitter.
Good one.
okay. on to HOUR 2 - mid ceremony!
Live Blog, Oscars (10)
Reader Comments (63)
AMANDA -- second time.
BENSUNCE -- she made us wait. but it was worth the wait.
No Mo'Nique? That was sad.
Bale's beard was creepy
Well, I'm officially down in the dumps because Incendies lost.
However, Bale's beard did cheer me up a bit...loved it!
I am starting to see those so predicted names comes alive. Just enough for one night for me. I am out to dream world. Good luck everyone. Thank you Mr. Rogers for a great blog. I love you.
I feel the Social Network for Best Picture now...
YES! Besides my love for "Dragon" the best score. And a sing: No "King's Speech" sweep. Maybe it can even win Picture. One can only hope..
I can't believe it!! The Social Network won Original Score!!! That's so awesome!!
Is it possible we're watching different shows? Everyone I'm watching with is HATING Hathaway and Franco's hosting job, and so am I.
Can they take the award back from that vulgar broad who demonstrated she was playing herself and give to Helena for her far more intricate work.
Really--I'm sick and tired of seeing the Steven Spielbergs and Tom Hanks always present Best Picture. There has to be someone we can complain to.
hathaway and franco were not good ... anne tried tooooo/hard ,probably because james looked as if he DID NOT want to be there.... i don't think he even looked at her once... poor anne!!!!!
joel -- harsh!
chand - awwww. Thnks you.
Jeff -- if i find out i'll let you know.
The first 10 minutes or so with the montage, the skit and the opening monologue were all great! Then it went down hill so incredibly fast that I got whiplash.