Oscar blog part 7

[cleolinda]

IT’S NOT PRESIDENT’S DAY ANYMORE! STOP SHOWING THAT GODDAMN PRESIDENT’S DAY SALE CAR COMMERCIAL!

(Lubezki didn’t win! Sob.)

Naomi Watts and Robert Downey Jr. Downey may or may not be coming off a bender, and even alludes to such “in the mid ‘90s.” Come on, Visual Effects, don’t break my heart. Oh, thank God, it’s Pirates of the Caribbean. The FX guys thank Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski’s “tireless imagination” and apologize to Bill Nighy for the mocap jammies. Awww.

Catherine Deneuve and Ken Watanabe. Deneuve: still amazing. Watanabe: very sharp. I can barely understand either of them. Sacha Baron Cohen in the audience kind of mouths to himself like he doesn’t understand either. Ah, we’re here with a montage of the fifty foreign film winners, assembled by the director of Cinema Paradiso. And we will be able to understand it, because it speaks the international language of... (“Love?” Seriously, how many of y’all said that out loud?) “Film,” finishes Deneuve.

Ah, there's that Swarovski crystal curtain they were talking about. And here's Clive Owen and Cate Blanchett, and there is too much pretty onstage. Not to mention too much sparkle, between Cate and that curtain. Best Foreign Film! OH MY GOD THE LIVES OF OTHERS. I mean, that was the only other prediction out there, pretty much, besides Pan, but that's because everyone else was dead certain Pan would win. What the hell is going on? It's like Mirren and Whitaker are so certain that everyone decided to be TOTALLY WACKY on all the other votes. The Lives of Others director jumps up about five feet in the air, so at least he's appreciative.

Heeeee. Ellen goes behind the Interpretative Screen to do shadow puppets, and then she gets sucked into an Intepretive Display of Snakes on a Plane. Tousled, she emerges to blurt out, "They're naked!"

George Clooney! Right to it! Best Supporting Actress! Oh God. I don't even know what's going on anymore. Pretty much anything could happen, you guys. (Okay, seriously. Stop showing the scene of Breslin screaming. She did, in fact, appear in other scenes.) Oh, thank God, it's Jennifer Hudson. It's not that I even particularly wanted her to win; I'm just back in a world I understand now. She's immediately in tears and thanking her grandmother. Beyoncé appears to be watching her benevolently from behind folded hands. I like to think that she is plotting painful deaths for Hudson. Tears are shining in Beyoncé’s eyes... right when the camera is on her. Yes, I’m cynical. And then they actually try to play Hudson offstage. Hudson’s song performance should be amazing, though, since she doesn’t have to worry anymore.

Comments

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Ellen is totally cracking me up tonight. Good stuff.

I'm glad Jennifer Hudson won - I did think she was amazing in the film, especially as such a newbie, acting with bigwigs like Murphy, Foxx, and Beyonce. Yes, who must be plotting her death. JHud ran away with that film that was supposed to be Beyonces time to shine in the sun!

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

Ellen = <3.

Wait, Beyonce is in Dreamgirls what?

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

I know everyone was saying Jennifer Hudson was going to win, but I was seriously pulling for Abigail Breslin. Sigh.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

yeah, but the last time a little kid won, it was tatum o'neal. do we really want abby breslin to go into rehab at, like, fifteen? just sayin'.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

EVA GREEN!!!!!!

God I love her so damn much.

Eeeeeeee!!!

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

She was the best damn thing in Kingdom of Heaven and absolutely fabulous in Casino Royale... she looks good in grey!

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Yay, Jennifer Hudson!

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

Me, talking to my parents: Yeah, Pan Labyrinth is definitely winning th---WHAT THE FUCK.

Also, I was kinda sad that Abigail Breslin didn't win, but Jennifer Hudson is pretty awesome. Also, I hate Beyonce. Die. Die. diediediediediedie.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

I wanted to choke a bitch when Pan's didn't win. GAH!

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

My friend is depressed that that little girl didn't win. I, however, am so happy for Jennifer Hudson and wish she'd have thanked Simon in her speech. I wish it every time but she's too nice.

[fateorlate.livejournal.com]

...wish she'd have thanked Simon in her speech.
Me too!

[ter369.livejournal.com]

..... because it speaks the international language of... (“Love?” Seriously, how many of y’all said that out loud?) “Film,” finishes Deneuve.

Not me. (re: love) I spent 15 years going to mostly Landmark cinemas in the Bay Area, where their "international language of film" thingey played before every single film.

[artemis-archer.livejournal.com]

They should have showed the scene from LMS when she asks her grandpa if she's beautiful. I loved her in that scene.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Yes. She's so awesome in that movie and all they show is that damned shrieking clip. Gah.

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

That scene with Breslin screaming...that was like nails scraping across a chalkboard. Eek, I can still hear it in my head. *covers ears* Yoi.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Lives of Others got it? Fantastic. I think with that good news I might well head to bed - that was honestly the award I was most nervous about and cared most about.

Or, I will at least have the good intentions of going to bed with this good news ;0)

And look at it this way - Pan is getting a crapload of other stuff, it's good to see another foreign film actually get recognised. (After all, LoO has broken records in its numbers of award wins, so adding the Oscar seems more than reasonable.)

[madamechong.livejournal.com]

I am so happy right now (and I'm replying to you here, instead of in the previous entry because-- IT WON! Guess that means Hell's in for a snowstorm :P), it is possibly impossible to be happier.

YAY THE LIVES OF OTHERS.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Pan's Labyrinth was robbed!!!!!

[saturnianali8r.livejournal.com]

Yay Pirates!!

Pan's Labyrinth should have won!! It was gypped. It has won three other awards tonight at least.

George Clooney rules! Jennifer Hudson is so grateful.

[pscopathictiger.livejournal.com]

Did anyone see Peter O'Toole's face the second time they showed Byoncee?

It was hilarious.

[splits_thesky]

Oh my God, Jerry Seinfeld, what the hell.

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

I am probably in a minority, but Jerry Seinfeld cracked me up.

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

Well, you are not alone. ;D

[londonsparrow.livejournal.com]

While I was actually pretty moved by the Foreign Film montage, it's a bit amusing to think of it as "And here is... The Rest of the World That's Not America or England!"

Cate + Clive = the hot.
No, wait, scratch that. EVA GREEN + GAEL GARCIA BERNAL = THE HOT.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

EVA GREEN + GAEL GARCIA BERNAL = THE HOT.

OMG yes. I just about fell over. Cate and Clive is my favorite pair of the night though.

[junebugged.livejournal.com]

Yay Jennifer Hudson! Boo, trying to play her off, and yet letting Seinfeld go off on about absolutely nothing for three minutes. Wasn't all those years of his series enough time? *is a bitch*

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was talking to a friend on LJtalk, and was all "Seinfeld is so 90s"

[fateorlate.livejournal.com]

The only reason I'm not plotting the downfall of the Academy is because my man Peter O'Toole actually has a chance in hell now.

[splits_thesky]

YES AL GORE, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

Al Gore + The Oscars = Surreal.

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

The Lives of Others is playing in a theater near where I live, and I'm definitely going to have to see it. I've heard really great things about it, and I was not a huge fan of Pan's Labyrinth. It was good, but I really didn't think it was as good as everybody else did.

Also I'm still smarting - quite irrationally - over the Cinematography. So that little, nasty bit inside of me is glad. *petty*

[madamechong.livejournal.com]

I got to see The Lives of Others while I was studying in Berlin last spring and highly recommend it!

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to feel about Clint. He makes me sad.

[lottery.livejournal.com]

Totally agree with you.

The montage is just like...I don't know. Really sad.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Pan's Labyrinth didn't win? Well, if you aren't going to cut a bitch, I will.

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

*leads a sheltered life*

What, exactly, does it mean to cut a bitch?

[lottery.livejournal.com]

Oh, Celine Dion. What a guilty pleasure you are. ♥

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

Especially her 90's material. And some of her French songs.

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

Oh God, it's Celine Dion. A little bit of me dies every time I see her/hear her, not because I have anything against HER in particular, it's just it brings back the painful memory of "My Heart Will Go On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on..."

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, ew. Celine. Geroff!