Oscar blog part 6

[cleolinda]

Ah, back just in time with a water refill. Ellen has come up with an Oscar belly tote, you know, like you put babies in. Nice. Here’s Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway holding hands, while Meryl Streep beams from the audience. (“Hi Meryl!” says Emily. “We love you,” they chirp together. “She doesn’t have her cappuccino--did you get--” “I thought you were going to--” “Look, she’s smiling, like it doesn’t even bother her.” And then they cut to Meryl, and she is staring at them like SATAN. AHHH. Costume Design! Ooo, they’re exhibiting them in person! Damn you, Golden Flower! Aww, they brought a real corgi for the Queen exhibit. Also, Anne and Emily totally snerk during their script for the Prada exhibit. Hee. MARIE ANTOINETTE! I LOVE YOU, MILENA CANONERO! YAY! Oh, thank God I don’t have to cut a bitch. (Wow, she did Barry Lyndon? I’m impressed.) I have no idea what she’s saying--oh, wait, Francis Ford Coppola introduced her to Sofia during the filming of The Cotton Club. Awww. Also, the costumes are still on stage. This is a fantastic idea.

Oh dear, it's Tom Cruise entering to that M:I theme. I guess recycling it is part of their "gone green" theme. Ah, we're going to give Sherry Lansing the Jean Hersholt now. Everybody to the bathrooms! Snack like the wind!

(I totally gave up on keeping the time, didn't I?)

Tom Cruise has used up his week's supply of vitamins in order to behave like a functional human being. I'm even more surprised that Katie Holmes isn't glued to the side of his head; I can only imagine that she's locked up in a closet at the Scientology Center right now. You know, so she won't be... lonely. Lansing has a very even, measured, scripted speech, which isn't a bad thing, I suppose--this is her chance to talk about her charities, and she doesn't need to be flailing around for ways to sound modest. That is the job of whoever wins the honorary Oscar, which is Ennio Morricone this year.

Out in the audience--wait, Ellen gave Clint Eastwood a headset sometime back in the day? “Someone from your office sent me one.” This is also news to Ellen. Eastwood is now jealous that she doesn't also have a script for him, so Ellen asks Spielberg to take a picture of them for "MySpace" instead. And then she starts backseat-directing Spielberg. That... that was surreal. And then she reels off a bunch of trufax about Gwyneth Paltrow ("She is married to Chris Martin, he is in Coldplay, I have all his albums, their child is named Apple, she won an Oscar and I saw her win it!"). Dammit, I really like her dress. Gah. Cinematography! Big ol' cheer for Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men. Yay The Illusionist! Also a big cheer for Pan. I like them having the cinematographers describe what they did for a selected scene; it gives people a better idea of what cinemaWHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHILDREN OF MEN DIDN'T WIN? FUCK ALL Y'ALL I CUT ALL THE BITCHES. Okay. Okay. I'm here. I'm back. I'm calm. It goes to Pan's Labyrinth. That's good, right? RIGHT? Again, gently, they play Guillermo Navarro offstage. Ask not for whom the piano murbles; it murbles for thee.

Hee, the Interpretive Dance Squad does a pretty good Little Miss Sunshine bus, complete with dancer(s) running in place after it.

Comments

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

OMGYAY Marie Antoinette for the win! I was fully prepared to launch a one-person riot if it lost, if I could get over cracking up over faux-actor-models. That's like the only Oscar I was deeply, deeply invested in (yeah I know that's sad).

Oh, Gwyneth. People say you're pretentious and you may be, but you are so so pretty.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I squealed. I admit it. MA = <3--although if CofGF would've won, I wouldn't have been AS upset.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. When Marie Antoinette won, I thought of you squealing happily somewhere out there. :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was weirdly invested in both Costume and FX, for some reason. Like, I know I was upset about Cinematography, but I was Fly Out to LA and Cut a Bitch invested in the other two.

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

CHILDREN OF MEN WAS ROBBED

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I agree. Children of Men was beautiful.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Marie Antoinette won Best Costumes 'cause seriously, the costumes and the camera work were the only things that saved that movie for me.

[lilaia.livejournal.com]

Love the costume changes, keep it up. And I loved the picture taken by Steven Spielberg.

[wearejustducky.livejournal.com]

God, I hate Gwyneth's hair. I also hate Nicole's hair, which makes sense since it's IDENTICAL to Gwyn's.

I'm ok with Pan's Labryinth winning. It was a wonderful movie, and I cried like a baby.

[thespianlizling.livejournal.com]

I never noticed Nic's hair because I was too busy staring at that loopy bow thingy on her shoulder. "If the person sitting behind her accidentally snags their handbag on that, will it come undone? Will her dress fall down to her waist?"

[stargal62889.livejournal.com]

I think it's so cool that Palabalus (yikes spelling) is dancing, are you familiar with them? they're so awesome

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Pilobolus (http://www.pilobolus.com/).

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

what is UP with all these Technical awards?! they have only given out ONE friggin acting award within the 2 hours its been aired! are they going to stand all the acting nominees up on stage and humilate all the loser like they did that one year right at the end b/c they ran out of time?

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

That wasn't 'cause they ran out of time that year - they did a lot of categories like that just to save time. The also presented some out in the audiance. But pretty much everyone saw that that was a really bad idea. And hopefully they will never do that again.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

PIRATES WON OMG! And Marie Antoinette, for you!

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

I am sitting here fuming over Children of Men. I am FUMING.

I just needed to say that. ARGH.

[splits_thesky]

PIIIIIIIIIIIIRATES!!!!!!!!!! \o/

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I kind of think Pan's Labyrinth is grabbing all the Oscars it can and running back to its magical kingdom, cackling all the way.

CLIVE CLIVE CLIVE CLIVE

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

I've always had a feeling they are going to clean house tonight. xD

[bluinkalchemist.livejournal.com]

Children of Men? What about The Illusionist? I haven't seen a movie that atmospheric in a very long time!

Bitches do indeed need to be cut.

[splits_thesky]

Oh, Jennifer Hudson, how are you so surprised?? No one else is.

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

i am RELIEVED! i was very nervous for her. well deserved.

[bluinkalchemist.livejournal.com]

Jennifer Hudson just won! Take THAT Simon Cowell!!

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

If only I was a fly on the wall so I can see Simon's face...it'd be priceless!

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Yay Jennifer Hudson! An Oscar and a kiss from George Clooney. It is her night.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHILDREN OF MEN DIDN'T WIN?

That's part of why Ter thought it was a bad film. I couldn't figure out the information on screen half the time (like, how did Theo know what building in the prison camp chicky & baby went into? I couldn't see for the mess onscreen).

Still, I did see Theo spike his coffee in the opening sequence.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

WTF PAN'S LABYRINTH LOSES WTFxELEVENTYONE.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to choke a bitch. >__< I was so pulling for it.

[leucocrystal]

I'm still crying over cinematography.  Is that bad?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*pat*

[caligogreywings.livejournal.com]

:/

Damn. I liked Pan's, but Children of Men shoulda gotten that. It was so raw...

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I totally dug the having the costumes on stage, I thought that was super cool.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

When I saw that they had the actual costumes on-stage, I thought to myself:
"Cleo is gonna SQUEE!!"

And then "Marie-Antoinette" won and he knew would be SQUEESPLODIN' all over the place!

Yeah, costume designer for "Barry Lyndon", which is awesome.
All done with natural lighting.

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

I was sopissed that children of men didn't win anything. SO PISSED!

[blinkliz.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I am crying tears of INTRICATELY-HAND-PICKED-GODLIKE-DEPRESSING-HUES for the cinematography rob.


... That film was genius and so underrated and *combusts*.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I love Meryl's death look, although i hated the Anne-Emily slip into character. But, then, I hated The Devil Wears Prada. Except for the wonderful Meryl, of course. Emily's dress is pretty.

Are those the real costumes? Because making fakes just to display at the Oscars seems wasteful, especially with their green theme, but I feel like they wouldn't use the real costumes..

Sherry Lansing is really impressive. I want to be a script reader and story editor! Sounds like fun!
I was surprised they had Tom do this. Wasn't it Paramount he just had his big falling out with?

I wish CoM had gotten cinematopgraphy. I wish CoM had gotten anything.

"Ask not for whom the piano murbles; it murbles for thee. "
Hah. hahahaha.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The real costumes were on display at FIDM--the Oscar nominees and selected others go on display every year--so they were already gathered up and in town. Just from being obsessed with the MA gowns, I'd say those were the real thing.