Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The Oscars: Live Blogging

- Intro with all the old movie characters: EXCELLENT

- Jon Stewart’s opening monologue: EXCELLENT

- The OSCAR goes to: Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age.  Speech – short and sweet. Loved it.

- George Clooney is super gorgeous in his 80 year anniversary intro. And that was an incredible montage.

- The OSCAR goes to: Animated Feature: Ratatouille. Who’s surprised? Steve Carell’s one-liner to Jon Stewart WAS HILARIOUS. Love him.

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Makeup: La Vie en Rose. Katherine Hiegl was nervous - and she told us so. Cute? Fake? What?

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Visual Effects: Golden Compass. Wow - I definitely thought Transformers would win. (And don’t tell anyone but I secretly like The Rock. Shhhhh!)

- The OSCAR goes to: Art Direction: Sweeney Todd. Cate Blanchett looked amazing. Jon Stewart is so funny with tribute to Cate.

- Supporting Actor tribute: So fun. Love Cuba.

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem. Yay! He won! His spanish tribute is so cute! (I admit, didn’t understand it….)

- Is Jon Stewart awesome? Yes, yes he is. Binoculars and periscopes bit is actually funny.

- Um, that little girl can sing….

- The OSCAR goes to: Short Film (Live Action): The Mozart of Pickpockets. Owen Wilson sighting! Owen Wilson sighting!

-The OSCAR goes to: Short Film (Animated): Peter & the Wolf. Jerry Seinfelf as a Bee presents. He phoned that in….

-The OSCAR goes to: Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton. She sure was lucky to work across from George Clooney. And did she mention BATMAN TO HIM? BATMAN??? Odd. But funny.

- Jessica Alba is gorgeous - even pregnant! 

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Adapted ScreenplayNo Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen. It’s kinda embarrassing that i haven’t seen this movie. 

- Who is this guy? Get back to the stars! Get back to the awards! 

- Oh, he’s explaining the process. And there are starts helping him. I’m the idiot.

- I love love love Kristen Chenoweth. She kicked butt singing the Enchanted song. My best good friend is certain that song will win the award. We’ll see….

- Angelina Jolie wins Baby!

- How funny are Seth Rogen and the guy from Superbad? They are very funny. I liked also how the guy from Superbad kept calling her Holly Berry. hahahah

- The OSCAR goes to: Sound Editing: Bourne Ultimatim.

- The OSCAR goes to: Sound Mixing: Bourne Ultimatim. Again, Seth Rogen and that other dude were funny.

- Am I allowed to find Forrest Whittaker annoying?

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Actress: Marion Cotillard. AND I LOVE HER. Her speech was absolutely amazing. I love her. “Thank you life, thank you love… this city does have angels….” Priceless. Love her.

- So apparently I need to see the movie Once. That song was amazing.

-And Jack Nicholson will always have that certain something….

- The Best Picture montage was really fun. It made me want to see Shakespeare in Love again…

-The OSCAR goes to: Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatim. This movie is cleaning up! Where is Matt Damon?

- Standing ovation! Standing ovation! The first of the night! Goes to… Robert Boyle. Honorary Oscar recipient. He’s 98.

-Penelope Cruz is presenting Foreign Language Film. She’s just gorgeous. I dig her hair like that. Her intro was short and sweet. No jokes. I’ll take that. 

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters.

- Is it weird that the announcer just called Patrick Dempsey handsome?

-Whoever was singing that last song from enchanted was cute, right?

-John Travolta is doing Best Song! Dance for us! Dance for us!

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Original Song: Falling Slowly, from the movie, Once. Another great speech! “Make art, make art!”

- Jon Stewart IS AWESOME.

-Spielberg shoutout. Word.

- The OSCAR goes to: Cinematography: There Will Be Blood. Need to see this movie!! Also, Cameron was cute. Liked that she pretty much admitted she can’t pronounce the word Cinematography. (and it’s 50/50 on whether I’ve spelled it right…)

- The montage they do each year is always moving. This year, particularly so with the recent passing of Heath Ledger.

- The OSCAR goes to: Original Score: Atonement. This score is hauntingly good. Amy Adams is so cute. My best good friend’s husband really likes her. I do too.

- Have I mentioned I love Jon Stewart?

- Tom Hanks! Tom Hanks! He helped introduce Best Documentary: Short Subject!

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Documentary: Short Subject: Freeheld. Moving speech. You gotta love the Oscars.

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Documentary: Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side.

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Original Screenplay: Juno, Diablo Cody. SHE WON! SHE WON! All readers of GlamBuzz (the 3 of you) know that I am obsessed with Juno. And she won!!! Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!

- Montage of Best Actor - LOVE montages.

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood. This was no contest. He rules. That speech was nice - i like the shout out to fathers and sons.  

- The OSCAR goes to: Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men. The brothers are apparently talented.

- The 80th OSCAR for Best Picture goes to: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. So, yes, these brothers ARE talented.

Well, that’s it folks. Jon Stewart was awesome, Diablo Cody was awesome, and until next year……. Thank you life, thank you love.

Peace out! 

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