7:29:18 PM: Bourne goes three for three. Crazy talk. I had it winning zero. In other news I won’t be winning the office pool.
7:34:03 PM: They hand out an honorary Oscar. Which is different than a lifetime achievement Oscar. I don’t know, you got me. We seem to be rewarding the fact that this guy lived a long time.
7:43:24 PM: The Counterfeiters wins the Foreign Language Oscar and will never be heard from again. Enjoy!
7:47:21 PM: Amy Adams is dancing like CRAZY! I still don’t get why she wasn’t nominated. I’m dead serious here. You telling me a Cate Blanchett nom for Elizabeth: The Golden Age was better? Okay, maybe she personally was. But Enchanted was a far better film. Case closed. Sort of.
7:57:15 PM: Jon’s performance is officially an A+ because he brought Marketa back out to give her Oscar acceptance speech. A classic Oscar moment. Well played.
8:01:39 PM: Death montage time. Here we go. Get some.
8:05:20 PM: Death montage over. Seemed pretty short. Did less people die this year? Someone on our crack research staff needs to get on this. Dre?
8:10:47 PM: Gotta dig that Atonement win for Best Score.
8:14:36 PM: Freeheld is the big winner on the short doc front… and we’ve got our first meltdown at the microphone.
8:18:12 PM: Taxi to the Dark Side wins in a monumental upset! Well, at least to the four people who have seen all these movies. He’s right about the “rule of law” comment though. We’ve sort of forgotten that around here lately.
8:24:42 PM: Diablo Cody is going to win for Screenplay.
8:25:14 PM: And she does.
8:30:43 PM: Day-Lewis time.
8:34:01 PM: It’s nice that they show clips from all the other nominees though.
8:37:46 PM: It’s official – An American won’t win any of the Actor categories this evening. Damn it! I’m gonna go listen to John Cougar Mellencamp.
8:40:32 PM: Gotta be Coens for Best Director. Bet the house!
8:43:22 PM: Looks like it’s a No Country for Old Men kind of night. Couldn’t happen to a better group of guys. Go team Coen!
8:51:10 PM: No Country for Old Men takes the big one. No shock there.
8:51:47 PM: That’s all for me folks, I’m wiped out. The themes of the night, in no particular order are: 1) Coens win big 2) Jon Stewart has great performance 3) Foreign Nationals Clean Up and 4) Bourne Ultimatum nabs three. If you’re an AP writer trolling this I’d go with one of those headlines. Rock on!
11:00:44 AM: manas58
