Oscar Live Blog. Hour #3 FINALE
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 10:53PM ARRIVALS | HOUR 1 | HOUR 2 | HOUR 3 (YOU ARE HERE)
10:52 We're almost done. And we'll be like that was so long!" and then next week we'll feel sad that it's so far away.
10:53 SNIFFLE. in memoriam. Sally Menke :( among other greats. But that one is so fresh and still sting because of such unexpected tragedy. I'm glad Celine is singing SMILE. I misheard that she was singing SHINE. oops. And i thought why does that non nominee get sung but not Cher's song? I love the song " STORMY WEATHER" so much. And Lena Horne is awesome yes.
It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.
-Lena Horne.
Great quote.
11:03 sigh. DIRECTOR = TOM HOOPER. Where is Cate Blanchett to say "that's gross" Heh. Sorry. Tom Hooper has great hair. "The triangle of man love" er... i think that was Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law plus TFE reader (see previous poll).
11:08. I've been neglecting the comments.
11:10 I was just telling an angry tweeter -- Fincher's loss will go down as a blight on Oscar -- that many great directors never won: Altman, Kubrick, Hitchock. The ones who don't make warm movies basically. It's like Directors are Actresses!
11:15 BEST ACTRESS. They're choosing good clips. Natalie's best scene in BLACK SWAN "he picked me mommy" Hearing Jeff Bridges say "michelle" freaked me out a little. You know why. and it's NATALIE PORTMAN who we knew it would be.
I feel bad for Annette Bening. I guess she's the new Deborah Kerr / Glenn Close / Julianne Moore. Great company to be in. And even though Natalie Portman wasn't my personal choice (I think Kidman was best this year) can we all agree that it's nice when people win for their best performance. So there's that. Congratulations, Nat!
11:21 Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges presenting these awards makes me happy for some reason. Maybe because they're both so damn likeable. BEST ACTOR COLIN FIRTH. Again people: why does everyone say that Oscar don't like to be told who to vote for. They so rarely vote against something that's won everything. All the acting winners have been the same all season.
11:28 I like Colin Firth a lot but he was just named Best Celebrity Neighbor as well. The King's Speech's hard sell is just SO irritating. And now it's going to win. The least ambitious of the five films.
11:35 BEYOND TACKY. Using The King's Speech speech as the voicevoer for the montage of ALL the nominees? So so tacky. And in Spielberg's preamble in which he mentioned "and the other nine will join the ranks of Raging Bull, Citizen Kane, etcetera" he basically exccused them from voting for all the new classics each time. TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY TACKY. Best Picture = The King's Speech
11: 38 James Franco "Anne and I have had an amazing time tonight."
11:43 Credits rolling and such. My takeaway. I don't even care that great stuff lost so much as that they chose SPIELBERG to do Best Picture again. Christ on a cracker how is it that THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY has no imagination about this? They work in the imagination department. Would it kill them to let a legendary actress do it once in awhile and not just the rotation of Spielberg/Hanks/Streisand/Nicholson. This almost makes me angrier than lame wins on account of it's such an easy fix. Less fixable is the taste level of the Academy voters.
11:46 One thing I forgot to mention. If only Anne Hathaway's penultimate dress had been a little less dark blue and a little more light turqouise it woulda totally been a tribute to Madonna's Ray of Light cover.
11:47 Okay. Another Year. The 83rd Oscars are now part of history.
11:49 To all the "losers"... It's not the load. It's the way you carry it. Remember your awesomeness.
COME BACK TOMORROW FOR MORE REACTIONS. We'll try to get going by Noon.
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Reader Comments (85)
Wow. The In Memoriam was actually moving and subtle this year... No applause during the montage and a nice quote at the end.
Very moving..... Seeing Jill Clayburgh's great smile got me the hardest. Loved her.
I think I may be to blame for your mis-thinking...I probably typed "Shine" for "Smiile" in a reply sometime last week.
uuuugh. Two-Time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. That phrase always makes me cringe
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! Tom Hooper??????
Please tell me I just heard Best Director wrong....
I think I'm gonna THROW UP.
back to reality
Ouch!
Really. Like, seriously?
wtf?!! tom hooper:(((
Worst Oscars ever
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Sally Menke :(
I just died inside!!
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD. THIS DID NOT JUST HAPPPEN. WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. The ceremonies may change but AMPAS continues to suck.
Annette Bening and Eli Wallach are cheering me up a little bit... but seriously, what does David Fincher have to do to get a freaking Oscar?
I love that godard ignored this consolation prize! Its ridiculous that they have segregated the people who have made cinema what it is today!
stella with the truth bomb.
i seriously don't get it.
Bensunce. -- i know. so many classics already.
I literally nearly lost my dinner when I heard Hooper's name, no joke. Just, WHY. I will never understand this need to reward safe, unambitious work.
I mean, HIM?
Over every single other nominee?
And with the minimal slobber over The King's Speech tonight?
Just... UGH.
Surely I'm not the first to come up with Tom WHOoper?
Mark. Couldn't agree more.
I hadn't realized how gorgeous Jennifer Lawrence is.
Mark - That's what I don't understand. Had it been a King's Speech sweep, I would just have said: Ok one more. It's just surreal!
It seems just like Crash five years ago. They didn't like it enough to give it Best Song, but still liked it enough for them to upset Brokeback Mountain. Meh...
I CAN'T HANDLE THESE TASSEL EARRINGS I REALLY CAN'T
Shouldn't somebody tell Portman that thanking one's agent = fail?
hoping against hope for the reverse split (TSN for pic.)
It's true, it's so weird that Hooper won with them clearly not loving it as much as many thought they would.
Nathaniel, I totally did the same thing when he said Michelle! Weird.
They picked the right scene for Jesse Eisenberg, but they cut just before the best line reading: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
Wait...I don't get the "Jeff saying Michelle" thing...?
OK, Colin Firth threatening to dance is really funny!
The presentation of the actors were probably the best idea. Nice. Especially witty Sandra Bullock. Multiple presenters were better though.
Not so good speech fpr Natalie. Good, but i expected better by by Firth either. Too much names, people.
Phillip its because of Pfeiffer
Loved Colin Firth's shoutout to Tom Ford...after all, Colin SHOULD have won the Best Actor Oscar last year...and he would have, had "Crazy Heart" gone to TV/DVD as it was originally planned, instead of getting a cinematic release.
Spielberg announcing Best Picture. YAWN
Nathaniel,
my condolences about them picking Steven Spielberg to present Best Picture for the THIRD time. Ridiculous. Should have been Meryl.
Sandra Bullock had the only good and appropiate writer of the night...
"least ambitious of the five films..."
Still not used to ten?
Disrespectful to have the Speech of TKS over that montage
Very disappointing...
damn!
Anyone else love the audience's clear support of TSN?
Yeah, bigger applause for TSN!
I agree about people winning for their best role.... Like Firth should have won for "A Single Man"!!! Had Jeff Bridges won for Baker Boys...
I have never seen a colder/bored audience. Only Anne Hathaway seemed thrilled to be there.
Oscars are in a coma!
Steve, I did. They cheered that loudly before it won for Score, so I had a tiny moment of hope.
Some good winners, but really sad that the evening ended so dully after starting with so many kicks in the face to TKS.
This ending is cheesy, but I like it.
Leehee, if Firth had won last year, I'd have been quite happy were Bridges to have won this year.
Also, they managed to get it over and done with tonight in only about 3 hours 12 minutes. Gone the days of hoping and praying that the Best Picture winner would be announced by midnight Eastern Time!
Pretty disappointing ceremony overall, and SO right about the tackiness! Ugh, how could anyone think those were good ideas?
But was it better or worse than Tom Hanks's super-quick presentation last year?
Steve - Eisenberg also got the loudest applause out of all the lead actor nominees.