5:20pm Yay! Jack Black plays it humble and goofy.
ME: Hahaha! Isn’t he great?
MORGAN: He looks terrible.
5:31pm. Hugh Jackman, stop it. You can’t get any hotter. Cripes.
5:40 Is Angelina Jolie wearing one of those giant candy rings?
5:44 JAMES: Whoopi looks terrible.
5:48 Penelope Cruz = Best Supporting for Vicky Christina Barcelona, which I need to see. You still have that screener, right Dennis?
5:57 Milk=Best Original Screenplay. Score one for the gays. Dustin Lance Black, I heart you.
Real time screenplay overlay = genius.
6:10 Kunio Kato: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Nice one. “Sank you, ahnimahtion”
6:23 In retrospect, will Sarah Jessica Parker think the writers insulted her (via Daniel Craig) with that “We don’t have to tell you what the makeup artist does,” “Just look at us,” crack?
6:32 Yow. Academy Awards says, “suck it, Joaquin Phoenix.”
6:38 Uh, Jessica Biel’s dress puked itself up. Is there a seamstress in the house?!
6:56 Hey, Zefron. Kind of a token appearance, though, what’s the deal? Beyonce was better than I thought she’d be. But with two high profile musicals, I’m not sure Hugh can honestly claim “the musical is back.”
7:08 yup, Heath Ledger for Best Supporting. It was a lock, but still a great performance.
7:15 Best Documentary = Man on Wire. Told ya it was great.
7:17 Hah, coin vanish was silly, but Philippe balancing his James Marsh’s Oscar on his chin was brill.
7:25 The Hives get a nice centerpiece. Good.
7:28 Haha, “Boom goes the dynamite.” Will Smith = internet nerd.
7:54 not feelin’ it: 1) any of the Original Scores (but congrats, A.R. Rahman FTW)
2) Zefron’s hair. WTF?
8:15 Forgot Cyd Charisse died. Sadface. Where’s Heath Ledger in the obit clips? Did I miss him? He’s nominated, so they don’t have to put him on the list?
8:20 JAMES (re Ron Howard): He looks terrible without his hat on.
Danny Boyle = Best Director. I think he deserves it just for the fantastic performances of the kids. Bravo Slumdog.
8:32 yup, Jolie’s ring is definitely candy. Earrings too, looks like.
8:40 Adrien Brody, shave, dude.
8:43 Wow, score another for the gays, Sean Penn = Best Actor
8:46 Thanks for the anti-Prop-8 slam, Sean.
8:53 Slumdog Millionaire = Best Picture. The entire city of Mumbai is on stage accepting.
9:00 note to self: blog next year’s Oscars from a laptop, not the iPhone.
More fun than the last few AA’s I’ve seen. Speaking of things I’ve seen, I think I only went to the theater for three movies last year and I haven’t seen any of the movies nominated for anything except “Iron Man”. I hadn’t even heard of many of the nominated movies until 2009. Talk about being out of the loop!
Heath died January last year so they honored him last year in the montage.
Nobody looked as terrifying as Sofia Loren.