Oscars, part 8

[cleolinda]

I'll be honest, I'm one of the biggest Cate fangirls ever, but even I wasn't expecting her to win Best Actress, so I wasn't disappointed when she lost. It's a powerfully shouty performance in a ham-fisted melodrama with fantastic costumes. At the same time, I think she would have really deserved it for I'm Not There--but she does already have an Oscar, and Tilda Swinton is awesome, and I am content.

Jon Stewart is playing video games with the little girl from the August Rush song. Hee.

Here's Colin Farrell to introduce the Once song. Can someone tell me what he was talking about when he first got to the podium--"Someone needs to look into that"? Anyway, here we are with "Falling Slowly." Unlike Amy Adams, they have a piano and a guitar--and each other. I want to be touched, but I'm a teensy bit ooked that they hooked up in real life. I don't know why, exactly. (Am I smoking crack? They did, didn't they?)

Oh God, it's Jack! Is this Best Picture? Is the show over? Oh God! Slow down! OH MY GOD, HE REALLY IS HERE TO SHOW A BEST PICTURES THROUGH HISTORY MONTAGE.

Okay. Okay. We're okay. It's not over. Two hours in! It's just two hours in!

Here's Renee Zellweger! "Some of the most exciting moments of your life have won Academy Awards!" Okay, I love movies as much, if not more so, than the next person, and I can honestly say that the most exciting moments of my life did not involve movies, much less Oscars. Some of them actually belonged to me, if you can believe it. The Bourne Ultimatum wins again, this time for Film Editing (wow). Also, the winner's father won an Oscar himself many (forty? fourteen?) years ago. Awww.

Why did Jon Stewart start screaming at the stage floor, exactly? "And someone just took their lead in their Oscar pool based on a guess." Hee!

Oh dear, it's Nicole Kidman with a special tribute. Holy God, what is she wearing around her neck? It's like an entire Christmas tree's worth of tinsel. Also? Black. Again. Okay, whew, she's not here with the Annual Death March of Deathly Death. She's here to honor famed art director Robert Boyle, thus soothing my terror that we would not have an honorary Oscar in the entire ceremony, thus upsetting the balance of the universe. "That's the good part about getting old," says Boyle, once the applause has subsided. "I don't recommend the other." Awww. He looks very, very frail. Awwwwwwww, he thanks "Hitch," who gave him his first big film (in the montage we saw North by Northwest). He thanks his wife, his children, his grandchildren, and a number of old friends. It's very sweet.

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[evilbearhunter.livejournal.com]

Here's Colin Farrell to introduce the Once song. Can someone tell me what he was talking about when he first got to the podium--"Someone needs to look into that"?

I think someone had spilled water on the floor.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Colin slipped on something and nearly went careening into the orchestra pit; Jon was screaming because the microphone ran away from him and hid under the floor.

Poor Jon. Only we love him.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, I thought it had something to do with the microphone, but I turned my head just as it disappeared and wasn't sure that's what I'd seen.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Here's Colin Farrell to introduce the Once song. Can someone tell me what he was talking about when he first got to the podium--"Someone needs to look into that"?

He nearly tripped over something sticking up from the floor, and then went back and sort of did a sort of skater slide back towards the podium.

^.^

[inkytwist.livejournal.com]

1. Apparently the floor is slippery. Colin Farrel slid into the podium thing, and that's what he was talking about.

I think Jon was yelling at the floor because the mic slid into the floor before he could get to it.

♥ I love your liveblogging!

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

Robert Boyle is apparently 98!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Colin Farrell skidded on his way to the podium. I assume that's what Stewart was playing off.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Colin Farrell slipped on the floor a bit when he came out. Or stuck the floor. One or the other.

Penelope Cruz, however, has the feathers of thousand baby emus trimming her dress. Ew.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

I think I was blinded by all the Kidman bling..

And question for anyone, because I feel like an idiot, that music they played in the History Montage, WHAT IS IT FROM?

I feel insane for not knowing it, but my brain is not connecting D:

[quenbolyn.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the Best Picture montage? Because that was from "Dragonheart".

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[quenbolyn.livejournal.com]

The track is "To The Stars", if you need to look it up. :)

[sharpenedyaks.livejournal.com]

That was the obligatory-film-history-montage-song (used by AFI for their top 100 list and everyone else too, it seems).. it's the theme from Dragonheart.

[nohara-megami.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I want to be touched, but I'm a teensy bit ooked that they hooked up in real life. I don't know why, exactly. (Am I smoking crack? They did, didn't they?)

I thought the film was made because of their story? As in, dramatized from real life events.

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

No: they knew each other for several years but didn't get together until after shooting was over, I don't think.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

for some reason i thought they'd tried going out and were more compatible as friends?

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

They did hook up. But it was actually (from what I've read, haha) a very touching story. I mean, it made me 'aww.' They'd known each other for so long! They started writing music together! He was in loooooove! Etc, etc. So you know. ;) Plus the movie was fantastic.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Nicole's necklace reminds me of Hindi Sad Diamonds from Moulin Rouge!

I want to be touched, but I'm a teensy bit ooked that they hooked up in real life. I don't know why, exactly. (Am I smoking crack? They did, didn't they?)

They are dating now, as far as I know. I'm not ooked - they are seriously sweet together. I saw them in concert and they were really great.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Okay, seriously, WTF. This song has BALLROOM DANCING and BIG CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, and Amy was out there with a big empty stage. WUT

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Seriously. They could've had people dressed up as rodents and other vermin dancing around her at least...

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh, or they could have totally annoyed everyone and made it worse by combining her song and the token 3D Animated Characters Involved In The Show portion and given her animated rats and pigeons and roaches. :O

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

omfg, Robert Boyle was so tiny and old and cute and I am amazed they did not cut him off.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I swear I heard the music start to quietly play and then abruptly cut off. Am I high?

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I do not know! altho my husband swears the same thing, and he is not high, as far as I know.

John Travolta just scared me. Also that dude totally left his seat date arm candy CO-WINNER swinging in the breeze in the aisle while he hugged his mother or something. Oooh and then the music cut HER off. Boo.

OMFG WAIT THEY BROUGHT HER BACK oh god that's so fanfriggingtastic. Not only is it possible to have your dream, but you won't get SILENCED while winning your Oscar!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that for an honorary Oscar they'll let you talk as long as you like because BY GOD BY THAT POINT YOU'VE EARNED IT.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

And he was so old! and tiny! and adorable! and being held up by Nicole Kidman on one side and some other statuesque actress on the other! and it would have been kind of like bashing a day-old baby bunny!

OH STEVE SPIELBERG I DID NOT NEED TO HEAR THAT 'MALE MENOPAUSE MOMENT.' ewwww.

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

I want to be touched, but I'm a teensy bit ooked that they hooked up in real life. I don't know why, exactly. (Am I smoking crack? They did, didn't they?)
They did! It's supposed to be an "inspirational true story," but I don't really get it. The songs are pretty, though..!

So, apparently your speech isn't allowed to go over 45 seconds unless you're over 90. Got it.

Okay, it's not the death montage yet, but I SWEAR I'M GOING TO CRY I ALWAYS CRY.

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

What is it with the fake verisions of characters from movies in the musical numbers? God, ever since Phake Phantom, it seems like every year there is one. This year we get FakeAmy Adams and FakeMcDreamy. When will the madness END?!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Cleo, Rent-a-Dempsey!

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

i was wondering where everyone went! anyway, like i said in the other post. way to ruin the ending of Enchanted for those of us yet to see it! but i guess if i wanted to see it that bad i would have paid almost $10 to see it in the theater!

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

YEAH!!!!! ONCE!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!


sorry,

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

well it shouldn't come as a surpise as the theme of the show seems to be, random people winning in all catagories!

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

I am going for the tissues now because they announced Hillary Swank is coming up, and I guess she has the Death March this year.

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Damn right, she gets to talk!

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Several people have explained the Colin Farrell thing (there was a slippery spot on the floor that he thought they should look at), but my mom noted that Miley Cyrus nearly slipped there earlier in the show and John Travolta did slip there later on. These are facts I'm sure will be vital for your life to come. *nods*