83rd Annual Academy Awards - U Watching?

umm who is hosting?

Honestly? I have no idea.

Err James Franco and Anne Hathaway apparently. That seems weird.

I'll watch some, as I do most years. I've got a bit more of a rooting interest this year--I'd like to see The Social Network win at least a couple of big awards--and the death-roll is a must. (More even than best picture, a friend and I always try to guess who gets the coveted last spot on the death-roll.) When things get too mawkish, or too garish, or when the first Jack joke rears its head, I scurry away. Anne Hathaway's another reason to watch this year.

u_u

Voting yes anyway although 'watching' might be a little strong xp

how many of these will make In Memoriam:

Maria Schneider
Tura Satana
Lena Nyman (of the I Am Curious films)

I'll bet Maria makes it for the Brando and Bertolucci-association alone.

Probably switch back n forth between the awards and animation domination.

maria schneider died?????????????

no.

Remembering her, Bertolucci said, "Her death came too soon, before I could hold her again tenderly, and tell her that I felt connected to her as on the first day, and for once, to ask her to forgive me."[11] "Maria accused me of having robbed her of her youth and only today am I wondering whether there wasn't some truth to that," he added.

yowch

Was Tony Curtis the biggest death this year (at least from a Hollywood standpoint)? Am I forgetting somebody?

The In Memoriam always made me tear up without fail and regardless of who was featured.

Hmm maybe I will watch for that. Completely forgot T. Curtis died.

I hope they fit in Lamont Johnson and George Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper will be there for sure, as he has a film in theatres right now; Johnson, I'm not so sure.

Probably switch back n forth between the awards and animation domination.

Animation is all repeats tonight. FOX knows better than to even try. We'll have them on the TV even though I could give a crap. I saw only Toy Story 3 and Inception among the nominees this year.

ABC to Sheen: "Pleeease come do drugs at ABC."

Wrong thread. :( How did I do that.

I'm sure Billy Crystal is bound to drop a Sheen ref if no one else does

oh, from other thread - the alleged schedule:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/snorefest-oscar-show-rundown-exclusive-spoilers-from-the-annotated-schedule/

going out to a show tonight but it's an early one so i imagine i'll get home in time to watch at least some of the Oscars, and probably will, so voting 'yes'

poll probably'd be easier to answer if it was 'did you watch the Oscars' after the fact tbh

I think I romanticize the broadcasts of the '70s. It seemed like there was always something crazy happening: Scott and Brando, Vanessa Redgrave, the Hearts and Minds guy, the streaker, Jane Fonda, etc. Probably most of those shows were just as uneventful as they usually are (even if the films were generally much better). I was least interested during the '80s, that whole Gandhi/Out of Africa/Color Purple window (most of the decade, probably) when I would pretentiously make a point of going out to a film the night of the show. I started watching again the '90s, and I've now reached a point where getting worked up over them seems very much akin to that Simpsons "Man Shouts at Cloud" joke.

didn't they not show clips in the 70s

my mom always complained about how bad they were in the 70s cuz they didnt show clips

I can't remember, but that sounds right. I'd be fine without the great majority of clips that will be shown tonight. In years like '74-'76, clips would have been really worthwhile.

Thread is making me sort of want to watch it but I know I'll get bored and change it within minutes.

I am psyched for this!

you put yourself through 3hrs and only usually get about 2seconds of magic
http://cdn.fd.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/TARANTINO-FISTPUMP.GIF

Is that Gandalf behind QT?

Yeah, who the hell is that guy?

lol tbh i thought it was hilary clinton below and natalie portman to the side

That's Bob from Twin Peaks: a little older, a little grayer, all in all a much nicer person.

So when in the '70s did they start showing clips anyways? First one I saw (portions of) was in '78 and I recall the "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters" clips.

(Watched 'em in my pajamas on my portable b&w, way past my bedtime lol)

I tried a few search terms on Google, but couldn't get anywhere. I did discover that the first time Carson hosted, the announcer introduced him as John Carson.

The YouTube stream is likely to be only viewable from America, right?

I'm teetering between finishing this Dovzhenko film and gawking at Joan Rivers.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

AP Livewire has good red carpet but annoying presenters, and is visible in the UK.

http://www.livestream.com/aplive

that stream doesn't have the ceremony

I know, but am on deadline so I'm not going to make it - but am totally headfucked over seeing Johnny Marr on the red carpet.

Red carpet ritual is the weirdest part, to me. just watching ppl i have no idea who they are posing for photos. And then HBC and G rush walk in and no one cares anymore lol

i fuck w/the oscars

actually having two friends over for them which is a little wtf

Oh dear - HBC wearing Union Flag garters. Not content with being rubbish she has to be embarrassing too.

cate's dress

favorite so far is reese's dress

Gotta go for Jennifer Lawrence myself. Damn.

yea i had no idea she looked that fine. cue the winters bone joeks

lol @ christian bale zooming past all the reporters without stopping and one woman looks back at everyone like "can u believe this guy?"

is it just me or does natalie portman look really young?! (also v.pretty but, duh)

haha -- James Franco MUST mention in every interview that he's still in school. Shrewdie, this one.

Portman showing how to rock the bump.

whos the lady who interviewed franco? she seems awful

yeah that was mad-awk

SOmeone on Twitter described Jennifer Lawrence as looking like she attached a skirt to a Baywatch swimsuit.

lol i was just going to say jennifer lawrence kind of looked like she was on baywatch to me

jhud tho bangin

Yeah it's all about J. Hud (and her boobs) tonight for me. And Blanchett of course.

Christian Bale's head is the size of Saturn.

yeah jhud's boobs and eyeliner are perfection

Bale's beard isnt even for a role, he's just grown it for the heck of it. I dont like it!

maria menounos looks great

More like for the neck of it amirite? xp

gonna just post these now so everyone knows im clairvoyant

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - Colin Firth
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Christian Bale
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - Natalie Portman
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Hailee Steinfeld
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - Toy Story 3
ART DIRECTION - The King's Speech
CINEMATOGRAPHY - True Grit
COSTUME DESIGN - The King's Speech
DIRECTING - David Fincher
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) - Inside Job
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) - Strangers No More
FILM EDITING - The Social Network
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - Incendies
MAKEUP - The Wolfman
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) - My Former Mentor Trent Reznor.
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) - TS3 (Randy Newman)
BEST PICTURE - The King's Speech
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) - Night & Day
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) - Wish 143
SOUND EDITING - Inception
SOUND MIXING - The King's Speech
VISUAL EFFECTS - Inception
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) - The Social Network
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) - The King's Speech

what time does it kick off?

Man, I could live in James Franco's upper lip.

and these skits are laaaaaaaame

its kicking off now

"you all sound the same" = pretty good critique of the Fighter.

James FrancO_O

yes skits are painful but you must've at least loved franco in a bearsuit

Franco in ballerina slippers *swoon*

look

at

anne

LOL Norm McDonald on Twitter: the opening was great but would have been better if it was interminably longer

Ballerina pants too...

Franco is on codeine. He's awesome.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/26/francoalert.jpg

My word, the jokes are awkward.

he rly is on some pillz

i approve of all the purple dresses on red carpet this year.

this script is so awkward.

i just can't even pay attention to anything but anne's face

She is gorgeous.

i want ricky gervais

wtf was UP with that "homage"? HERE'S THIS OLD MOVIE WOOPS GOTTA GO HERE'S TOM HANKS

Oh hell, where did my stream go - any links?

CLAP FOR HANKS OR ATLANTA GETS IT MOTHERFUCKERS

lol @ no one clapping for Titanic.

they are both stupid hot and lame

2 awards at once?!

http://www.directon.tv/channels/4089/

yeah i have basically no clue what is going on right now

neither does Tom Hanks!

Oh, Ok, it's back - I was just getting yelled at by 4 peeps at the same time.

Neither does Hanks, I think. lol xp

I WON MY FIRST PICK IN MY OSCAR BALLOT

right so Inception's gonna win nothing

god everything about that movie looked like vomit

(as it should be) x-post

inception gonna win for the honk xp and this

ok i take that back

Ah well, jinxed myself.

u kno what it's like just say who won don't talk about the envelope as u announce the winner

http://www.johnnymarrplaysguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/x2_4cc6f51.jpeg

I can see Christopher Nolan being the Russell Crowe of Glowring Humorless Oscar Closeups.

Why does the academy hate Roger Deakins so much?

Justin Timberlake as the chainsmoking mom of a mediocre northeastern boxer

Chris Nolan's hair stylist needs shooting.

Shoutout to the union earns a thumbsup though.

psyched i broadcasted my ballot here so everyone can seem i'm 0 for 2

cinematography insanity. not even Pfister's best work (The Prestige, fyi).

shoulda got Borgnine up there with Kirk

lol at Francis Ford Coppola sitting by the popcorn stand.

HOLY SHIT Kirk Douglas wants to go down on Anne!

wow Beatty and Bening are still together? heartwarming.

this is painful

hathaway/franco demographic getting scared

yeah

I think I saw actual tears in Beatty's eyes when he realized it was Kirk Douglas up there.

luckily Melissa Leo's performance remains more unwatchable than Kirk Douglas.

oh boy

this is painful

Go Steinfeld (though it's ridiculous she's considered a supporting actress)

my damn skin is crawling

He saved it at the end, but barely.

None of that made any sense till the line "I lost every time"--he's been nursing a grudge for a long time.

you all realize franco is taking video of this from the stage and posting it on the interwebs?
http://www.whosay.com/jamesfranco/videos/14030

Kirk Douglas = old lech from "Family Guy"

:( Adams or Steinfeld. But that was a terrible performance.

lol @ no one giving a shit about Melissa Leo

genuine Sally Field job here

Whoah!

you really fuckin like me!

GET HER OUTTA HERE

lol Alfred

RESPECTING the WORK.

god help us

what a freak

who isn't giving a shit about her? (also, yay the Oscars are on and not football!!!!!!)

SELLING MOTION PICTURES = Melissa Leo dropping some Morbsbait

Ten bucks this woman will never see another role like this because she came off like such an entitled bitch.

Geez, if that's how it's gonna be, I'm hoping Sam Jackson and Joe Pesci are both up for Supporting Actress next year.

she was bad and she has weird bronzer lines and streaks on her face

Mila!

Justin and Kunis look like they were making out hardcore.

my god mila kunis

I know, right?

Justin is funny. who knew? that's the best gag at the Oscars since Woody Allen in 2002.

the color of htat dress on mila tho is not the best

ouch what was with all the melissa leo hate? ouch!

it's like am i in a bedroom

my god justin t

this stream is fucked though - i'm getting about one word in ten

Justin is funny. who knew?

we've known for years!

mila is golrious

best stream http://www.directon.tv/channels/4089/

It's a shame how to train your dragon had to go up against toy story 3, given that one is in two categories.

justin super smooth 2nite

cheers piscesx

what the fuck is this banksy bit. this is human torture

justin could def host this

eye candy woulda been more fair if mila was hosting with franco

there's a heck of a lot of "Woo! Yeah!" air-punching shit going on onstage tonight.

The arc of Justin's career indicates that hosting the Oscars will indeed be his fate.

there's a heck of a lot of "Woo! Yeah!" air-punching shit going on onstage tonight.

not enuff stomach punching of Melissa Leo imo

She's history's greatest monster.

i want to look younger and better

Damn, the link we were watching just stopped, and the one piscesx (kindly) provided doesn't work here. :(

penelope cruz looks like she's going to a nascar race tonight

type oscars stream or #oscars stream into twitter there appeared to be loads earlier

can we just

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/02/08/0/192/1922153/8c980cfd67f16c22_reese.jpg

seems a bit harsh that Toy Story 3 is classed as adapted just because it's a sequel.

fight the music!

loved the shout out to armie hammer, armie hammer again

What was the point of the Paddy Chaeyfsky name-drop?

Dressed as a pint of Guinness. xpost

Fuck a Melissa Leo, the kid ought to have won.

how comes Kings Speech *isnt* 'adapted' when it was based on diaries and stuff. i'm too sober to understand teh Academy rules.

What was the point of the Paddy Chaeyfsky name-drop?

"Fifty years ago, a movie called The Best Years of Our Lives won Best Screenplay. I'm privileged to have my movie share one word with that great film."

you're right suzy she should have won. i thought 'true grit' was eh.. but she was really good in it, despite coen bros style always making their movies seem cartoonish to me

how comes Kings Speech *isnt* 'adapted' when it was based on diaries and stuff. i'm too sober to understand teh Academy rules.

They weren't published in any form?

lol alfred

TG was hardly cartoonish
xxp

omg her voice . . . she was in the a capella group at my college

I'm still recovering from Melissa Leo though.

mute button

xxp yes it was!

<3 FRANCO

damn anne does not care about looking ridic!

i kind of love her

omg would pay serious cash money for the privilege of removing the cotton stuffing from Franco's tits

wow mirren's accent is impeccable

not sure if Helen Mirren's pissed off because the awful script requires it.

lol cat murder in dogtooth clip. GOIN FOR THE WIN!

of gods and men right

damn anne does not care about looking ridic!

That's what I was thinking too--she seems to be a real good sport about this inanity.

yeah the oscars are all about dumb jokes! this has been good imo

Looks like everyone outside-USA has lost their stream - at least all the twitter folks. Ah well...

what's with all the focus on hugh jackman? is he the new jennifer lopez?

xpost still got my stream

John Hawkes is HAWT.

ugh

looking forward to the accent

BLOODY 'ELL

maybe The Fighter woulda been more interesting had he played the chainsmoking mom.

what a BLOKE

are there bees growing honey under his mouth?

plugging a small business, nice

re:jed What are you using? I can't find anything. All of the utube or whatever, stuff got shut down due to 'copyright infringement'.

just this one that piscesx linked

http://www.directon.tv/channels/4089

aww that was a cute speech imo

Yeah, Bale was cool

Christian Bale's still Patrick Bateman to me...I'd forgotten that in real life he talks funny.

Thanks Jed. Yeah, that one is just 'unable to connect' for me. No worries.

I don't think Bale has a "real" accent though

just keep trying it worked for me after a dozen refreshes

pattonoswalt Patton Oswalt
Wait -- does this mean Batman has a tugboat captain's beard in the 3rd movie? #Oscars

if you are an actor since you were a kid you're not really going to have one but i wonder why he decided to go for the london wideboy one.

i want to carpet bomb this ad

Bale didn't thank his fellow noms. i hate it when actors forget to do that. he seemed pretty genuine mind.

xp direction stream still working fine for me(uk).

not much luv for the fighter but i'm happy the kid from Empire of the Sun won something.

http://www.justin.tv/classicsurfer#/w/914495248
this is the one i'm using

Did they seriously just waste a minute to announce their broadcast contract?

has Franco given up on this already?

I think it might be a bit of wishful thinking on their part to assume that in 2020, the Academy Awards will still happen the way they do today.

http://www.whosay.com/jamesfranco/photos/14048

Yeah, by then it'll all be lasers. xp

twitter lols: SklarBrothers Can't believe Bale didn't thank the lighting guy

Thanks Danzig! And everyone else, of course. No idea why that one doesn't work for me, thanks though.

I apparently just started watching at the right time -- saw Bale speak, and might see Reznor win?

love the naked corporate bent this year. SELLIN MORE MOVIES! ABC CONTRACT ANNOUNCEMENT!

pls no zimmer

Reznor looking all respectable-like.

had no idea trent wasnt a goth anymore

Reznor was in his high school marching band, he's not so weird.

kinda surprised that guy has a wife and three children...

poor scarjo

What's that line from Dazed and Confused? "I keep gettin' older, and they stay the same age."

ha i think franco has broken the oracle of bacon site with his reference.

Another union shoutout.

scarjo should have brushed her hair.

at least!

Temper Trap!

Don't they usually let some young ingenue give out those awards?

what are you wearing?

Yay Rick Baker!

Boy, Rick Baker sure has come a long way since An American Werewolf In London.

ha!

speeches have been super cringey tonight

felt a bit stacked, the makeup award. Giamatti and Hoffman getting older, Ed Harris getting chapped lips, or Hopkins and Del Toro running around as motherfucking WEREWOLVES

god he's aged.

disgusting spacey

When does Jean-Luc Godard come out for his award?

he doesn't, he got it in another ceremony.

i think?

Randy Newman! man there's too many proper actual legends on this show. shame about the song mind.

hurry up and die already

That's disappointing. I was hoping he'd run through the crowd like Roberto Benigni did.

wow is she wearing a miniature mountain?

mandy

moore

this category, really.

"Chuck" almost hit me with his car while pulling out of a gas station a few weeks ago. Rooting for him.

Why was cate blanchette wearing a chair instead of a dress?

why does mandy moore have such nice skin

cate blanchett -> givenchy haute couture. i didn't really get what was going on w/that collection tbh

amy adams outfit is amazing

a

may

zing

Amy Adams is amazing. I want to shoot a president for her.

Not the US president, though. Just to be clear.

Carrot Top!

yeah! a friend of mine knows this guy & sez he is awesome

anne dress number 4 BACK ON TRACK

wtf is this

ok apparently several friends know the guy with the hair and are very hyped about this <3

odds on this autotune ish being done by the autotune the news guys?

they shoulda shown some Shreds videos here.

Somebody needs to get flogged for this autotune joke

ok that cut to the Coen Bros. was amazing.

anne really nailing this gig so far

really? I find her annoying

TEAM FRANCO

as a concept the autotune thing is a little stale but the actual execution and selection of dialogue was pretty damn entertaining

Channelling Matt Taibbi...

yeah Twilight bit was pretty funny. xpost

bringing out the relief

First Jack joke imminent...

Man I hate Billy Crystal.

I don't!

Dead Bob Hope >>>>>>>>> Billy Crystal

I would like to remind everyone that Jude Law is one of our finest actors.

lol

law and downy making it work

Wasn't that a bit of a surprise? I thought editing was one award that Inception had locked up.

no TSN was the favorite

Okay...maybe I'm thinking of Hoberman singling out Inception's editing.

GORGEOUS!!!!!

anne dress five!!!!!

I do not like this Florence woman. Why is she showing up everywhere

Franco's delivery of "How To Train Your Dragon...that's disgusting" was hysterical

yeah that was prob my biggest laugh of the night

was that even a song? wtf

omg gwyneth

jeez hudson's face is more orange than matthew mccounaghy

what?!

yeah...confused

gwyneth go home

apparently Gwenyth Paltrow is country music's newest star. who knew?

Jesus Christ shut this woman up

didn't that Country Strong movie bomb? why is she still in charcter?

I'm sorry Gwyneth, you did not make our top 24.

i really liked that performance

...

Inception wasn't nominated for editing. TSN had a fractured chronological structure so it was a likely winner. xposts

it was terrible surm

CHER WUZ ROBBED

xxp so did Aimee Mann:

aimeemann Aimee Mann
Seriously, I think she sounded great! Are you kidding? I can never sing in tune on TV.
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

aimeemann Aimee Mann
Dudes, Gwyneth can bring it.
4 minutes ago

randy newman is the best

gwyneth was honest and organic in her delivery in a way i liked

i wanna see country strong so bad

sokay Surm, I thought she was p.good

:) :)

hooray for Randeeee

Big surprise, Randy Newman puts most everybody to shame.

FWIW, I think that cate blanchett's dress and the way she wore it were rockin' It was unusual and not everyone could have carried it off.

And duh, Randy Newman wins for best original song...he's always a shoe in.

IMO this is the most dull Oscars in 20 years.... want to Tivo and change channels or turn the tube off and read. This one is worthy of speed-thru at 3x...

randy a shoe-in? dude had been nommed 19 times, won once.

And duh, Randy Newman wins for best original song...he's always a shoe in.

Uh

i wanna see country strong so bad

These words will never appear in this order ever again.

NOOOOO

no moving orchestra, no celine in 11

CELINE!!!!!!!

DIDO wrote that Florence song? wtf..

woah I didn't know Dennis Hopper died

Celine was bearable!

celine really hitting it out of the park tonight shocker

No live applause for the memoriams this year?

tbf there wasn't a REALLY big standing ovation-worthy star in this year's montage

2011 oscars: celine dion one of the better moments

No Corey Haim?

coz no one cared about Leslie Nielsen, Arthur Penn, Tony Curtis, Patricia Neal, or Dennis Hopper? xposts

There sure were a lot of major deaths last year, especially directors. I'm glad they used Sweet Smell of Success (instead of Some Like It Hot) and Blue Velvet (instead of Easy Rider) clips. No LaMont Johnson. And not to pick on Celine Dion specifically, but that's a bad idea. Instrumental music is fine; it's supposed to be about the people in the montage, and invariably any big-name singer's going to undermine that to a degree.

ooh I love Anne's dress

no slight to Curtis or Hopper, but compared to how most years there seems to be the passing of some HUGE legendary star like Paul Newman they're somewhat smaller potatoes

WHAT?!?

WHAT THE FUCK

UGH

she looks like a star wars extra

xp wwuuuuuuttt

DIE

Bleah.

of course it would delight me if TSN got Best Picture instead.

could see it coming but still fuck this dude

Man, Kathryn Bigelow is a lot better looking than Hilary Swank.

upset!

wow

x-post I love the shape/silhouette and color but hate the material.

Still can't believe the disparity in quality between John Adams and TKS.

haven't seen any of the movies but my reaction was like "good for him, this is his big year, all those other noms have had big oscar-worthy flicks before and probably will again soon"

TSN won't win best picture. I thought there was a decent chance of the split going one way, not the other.

That's the most sickening thing about the awards, even though I understand the reality of prime-time television: Godard and Coppola get relegated to Saturday night now. It wasn't that way even 10 or 15 years ago.

Eli Wallach was less excruciating than Douglas too.

I know there's no chance for an upset here but... TEAM MICHELLE WILLIAMS

something is happening here man!!

Bening and Williams blow away everyone else in this category.

mmmm Andrew Garfield shot.

The Kid's Are Alright looks awful

It's not.

I thought Kidman was great in Rabbit Hole... probably her best performance since Birth

"Natalie...I was so taken with the depth with which you imbued your personification of a crying swan.

love michelle

fuck that

OK NOW THEY APPLAUD FUCK YOU

when i watch shows on demand there's a kids are alright ad constantly in rotation that is just so so so grating

Bening has lost four times to some of the worst or least memorable performances in Academy history.

LOOK GUYS SHE'S CRYING -- THINK SHE'LL TURN INTO A SWAN???

portman's performance is neither

lol i've never seen alfred this angry

gonna barf

all this ceremony needs is Franco and Hathaway jumping on the back of a suddenly airborne Portman.

um this anne dress is ridiculously beautiful

this blue thing.

how awful was portman acceptance speech

Bardem is ridiculously biutiful.

i liked portman in 'black swan'! the whole thing was absurd but it worked somehow.

yeah Bardem is totally hot

he was like crazy hot in Before Night Falls

true that. bardem looks good

<3 natalie

he looks like shit imo

eh, midnight blue neoprene? Wow. Makes me wanna go lesbo and jump her!

he was like crazy hot in Before Night Falls

yesss

Eisenberg's nastiness is such a tonic here.

Sandy Bullock looking uncannily like Anne Baxter in "Eve"

TKS = Good Will Hunting meets The Queen

bullock genuinely funny and endearing.

natalie was pretty robotic. when has a best actress thanked the camera operators?

Oh dear! Bullock has the hot body showing, but what has happened to the face and hair" Yipes! I am chalking it up to being a new Mom.

yeah, I've never disliked Bullock -- only her movies.

am i the only one who watches this thing with the sound nearly off because it's so awkward

every mom in America is now happy.

ack

<3 colin firth

Firth has been a lock since that movie came out. Doesn't deserve it but I'm fine with it. Director, Screenplay, and Picture for TKS still hurt though.

Did King George VI write Firth's speech?

hate colin firth

Must be weird to watch Bridges and Firth switch in one year from being least likely winner to mortal locks.

"id King George VI write Firth's speech?" LOL Excelcior~!

I like the way Spielberg framed that.

Kirk Douglas as George VI

god, this movie is a diseased liver

Ok this is a much worse idea than the autotune gag

i kinda loved that montage but way to give away the endings to 10 films at once

booooo

can i say DIE again?

i feel like.. just like how you can usually tell a lot from the names of bands & titles of records, a film called 'the king's speech' is not going to be that interesting to me

That montage was so weird and seemed to be them admitting TKS had won before it was announced

aww i love that he thanked his boyfriend

BOOOOOO at TKS winning though, eugh.

I still don't understand how TSN and The King's Speech exchanged sure-thing status overnight.

ok if it were about 17th-18th century king of france maybe, otherwise no, not interesting

can someone explain why the king's speech sucks, I haven't seen it

why wasn't hathaway wearing that the whole time?

Ugh

^^

It's okay, the kids just answered my question.

they should have had these kids on stage the whole time

I still don't understand how TSN and The King's Speech exchanged sure-thing status overnight.

TKS was always the frontrunner. I was more surprised that TSN was actually anointed as serious competition.

ok need a gif of randy newman looking at the kids stat

G'night, y'all.

can someone explain why the king's speech sucks, I haven't seen it

it's called 'the king's speech' for one

so can I suggest that from this point forward we call it "Acadamy Award-winning film 'Alice In Wonderland'"?

can someone explain why the king's speech sucks, I haven't seen it

Fillet history to make it fit the tropes of a "heartwarming" and "inspiring" film. Blend with Anglophilia and plutography, and serve half-baked. I actually enjoyed the film, but would not pretend it's anything other than a transparent bit of Oscar bait.

But didn't TSN win three or four major critics' polls in a row? Weren't those somewhat predictive at one time?

xp to iatee
it whitewashes royal history but big surprise, it's mostly decent middlebrow ala Atonement. Got nothing on True Grit, TSN, TS3, or 127 hours but eh its the oscars just go listen to that Charlie Sheen rant again

It's about a lower middle class Dorcester kid who with the help of an amateur therapist learns to overcome his speech impediment and in the process appreciates deep values. In the last scene Ben Affleck shakes his head with quiet bemusement as he realizes his boy has triumphed.

STILL don't know how King's Speech isn't an *adapted* screenplay when it was based on some play the writer's mum saw? am i missing something.

and Affleck now has a mustache, so we know he's older and changed
xp

it wasn't based on something published! this isn't hard

anyways that was hella predictable but the show was tolerable so

But didn't TSN win three or four major critics' polls in a row? Weren't those somewhat predictive at one time?

yeah, and it was the frontrunner for a while, but momentum shifted quickly. once TKS took the DGA award it was game over for TSN.

Additional material written by Brian Posehn

This was Jesse's first Oscars ceremony.

Iain Canning is a HONEY!

I talked w/ my mom today and she loves it and argued that it was this small budget wonderfilm that took the world by storm and I basically was forced to promise to watch it.

This was Jesse's first Oscars ceremony.

― also, that Christmas tree has a dildo on its head (Jesse)

George is getting frustrated! (Good night.)

oh, and Fuck The Oscars pt. 224982034: Former nominee Eric Rohmer wasn't included in the In Memoriam montage.

Chabrol was, so it wasn't a Foreign Art Film Director thing

okay, i'm out. leaving with this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ErOpoh4e1Wc/TWseY7mNcFI/AAAAAAAAAUU/v0ormjGLVgI/s1600/mila%2Bkunis%2Byahoo.jpg

hott

she looks so russian in that shot

some random observations:

tom hanks introducing a tribute to past oscar winners -- starting with gwtw and titanic -- which never shows up again

1 of the 4 memorable movie songs was "tonight" from west side story, a broadway musical

another best actress winner pretending to cry

no fucking dancers at last

credits reveal it WAS the auto-tune the news guys who did that bit

ffs oscars, you're not winning over anybody with an entire segment devoted to gwyneth paltrow's budding country career

CAD otm

i guess that's it for another year...

http://whisty.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/faye-dunaway-by-terry-oneill.jpg

^^^love

I DVRed the Oscars and fast-forwarded through most of it and it STILL felt long.

ouch what was with all the melissa leo hate? ouch!

she was even hammier than that bitch Crawford!

takeaway from Best Documentary Feature: OBAMA = DUBYA

GOOD NIGHT

I hope to god this is the last time they let actors host this show.

reading norm macdonald's twitter account is making me retroactively enjoy the oscars

share?

Patton Oswalt used his Oscar time to comment on Predator 2

http://twitter.com/pattonoswalt

correction: POST-oscar time.

http://twitter.com/normmacdonald

people who think this was the worst oscar telecast have short memories, or seem to want something else from a telecast than I do. this came in only four minutes over time and seemed free of fluff. I think they cut something; wasn't there supposed to be some kind of on-going 'tribute to movies past' that started briefly with "Gone with the Wind" and then never returned? Franco is smarmy and irritating but also kind of funny, but maybe just high.

My four and a half year old was genuinely upset that Toy Story 3 didn't win best picture and has declared he hates the King's Speech and will never watch it.

tough but fair

normmacdonald hed better not tend to his impulses near those kids from ps22
about 2 hours ago

nickkroll nick kroll
The heat-miser got robbed. But she does get to go home and get boned out by bullworth.
2 hours ago

glad melissa leo won fth

but good lord, hooper best director? fucking kidding me

That was kind of dumb but all that says to me is that the OAPs were block voting for the film.

yeah. i don't like the film, but can see that others do. even then, bafta's call made more sense, because it's just not well directed. of the five nominees it's the shoddiest. the mentality of a guy who puts as the climax of his film a guy talking... and overlays beethoven's fucking seventh at high volume. shudder.

I haven't seen the film yet (even though it's at the Renoir and I like HBC, it will be like watching one of those Andrew Davies miniseries on a big screen) and only managed to see Social Network on a plane.

True Grit should have won two awards - cinematography and supporting actress- but the M Leo win is a Sorvino. Maybe, wishful thinking, we'll never have to suffer through another film of hers again?

Sorkin's speech increased my hatred of him tenfold

The Academy Awards desperately needs people like Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Chris Rock. Hathaway and Franco weren't embarrassing or anything, but the only thing I can remember this morning is Hathaway's "younger demographic" line. Getting Hollywood people to host the show is just a bad idea. Carson was an outsider, and even Hope was to a certain extent (in that he didn't make movies anybody took seriously). The only fun is in watching an outsider come in and say stuff that walks right up to the line of being offensive to the people in the audience. Chris Rock turned Sean Penn into a stodgy old schoolmarm--that was more memorable than anything people like Hathaway and Franco are ever going to say.

http://twitter.com/#!/rilaws/status/42067620287090688

I think Hope's movies were taken srsly enough by the ppl who shared in the grosses when he was a star for about 25 years. And they gave him 3 or 4 honorary Oscars.

glad melissa leo won fth

xpost: Well, financially, yeah. But he was comedian. He didn't have to worry about possibly offending Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor or whoever, because he wasn't going to be making films with those people. So he had more latitude (within the context of his times--I'm sure Hope's monologues look fairly genial today). You need someone who has an unspoken "Isn't this the most ridiculous thing imaginable" bond with the viewer at home. Hope and Carson and Stewart can provide that; any actor who takes him or herself seriously can't.

I only remember his "well, they must obviously be on some kind of dope" comment when some women's libbers attempted to disrupt the Miss World competition.

"White Feminists on Dope"--I remember that song.

I only remember his "well, they must obviously be on some kind of dope" comment when some women's libbers attempted to disrupt the Miss World competition.

Gadaffilike

btw Jerry Lewis hosted several times, so they could go to him next year for more Kirk Douglas-style yuks.

more like yucks

does firth kinda annoy anyone else? cringey oh um eh hugh grant rather humbled chaps speech, playing to the eh um delightful gallery then.

ha I was thinking this

You need someone who has an unspoken "Isn't this the most ridiculous thing imaginable" bond with the viewer at home. Hope and Carson and Stewart can provide that; any actor who takes him or herself seriously can't.

― clemenza, Monday, 28 February 2011 13:07 (1 hour ago)

i quite liked last night's hosts i thought they faked chemistry better than most romantic parings in actual movies but this point is very OTM indeed.

I still think "That's not acting, that's turning up!"

Still, fair play to him...

Bring back Billy Crystal. Anne Hathaway is beautiful but she always looks like she is stuck in college.

And that's a bad thing?

Franco did come off a little stiff, but I thought Hathaway did an admirable job. I mean, I don't really think she was expected to be dropping zings left and right, she was there to look pretty and enthusiastic, and she did both just fine.

I thought the opening movie montage was cute

anne hathaway is welcome to my first best bed any time she likes

yeah hathaway imo has a showbiz kid vibe but brought just enough actual comedy chops that she was funny and entertaining but not cheesy or eager to please. franco's always been kind of a blank slate as far as his personality so i'm not sure why they thought he was a good fit.

i felt like a doddering old granny watching this, every time someone gave an acceptance speech i was all "i haven't seen his movie but this colin firth man seems nice, i'm happy for him" or "oh natalie bless her heart, i haven't seen her movie but i'm happy for her, she seems so sincere! and she's going to be a mommy!"

I thought Portman and Leo were about as sincere as Stalin.

was Stalin known for faking it

Through the party noise, the hosts did OK by me. Complaints in the press that Franco seemed "blase" -- wasn't that intended?

Kirk Douglas and Betty White should do a road movie.

I thought Portman and Leo were about as sincere as Stalin.

Dude, seriously, I like you and all so I'm going to suggest that maybe you step away from pop culture for awhile and try to put some things back into perspective. Your level of outrage was worrying enough without somehow tying fascism into it.

Leo looks capable of sending indigenous tribes to reeducation camps.

Dude, seriously, I like you and all so I'm going to suggest that maybe you step away from pop culture for awhile and try to put some things back into perspective. Your level of outrage was worrying enough without somehow tying fascism into it.

do you know what fun is?

i dont think alf is partic outraged

Stalin wasn't a fascist btw

anyone who doesn't believe that natalie portman is 100% comparable to stalin is pretty crazy imo

blacklist the Black Swan

i dont think alf is partic outraged

just chillin', mocking actresses and eating cats

positivity is jon /via/ chi 2.0's 'thing' iirc

anyone who doesn't believe that natalie portman is 100% comparable to stalin is pretty crazy imo

wtf does this even mean? you film guys are so weird

Apt headline:

http://www.darrelplant.com/images/time-stalin.jpg

I don't care about "positivity", it just seems really weird to compare an actress to people like Stalin.

this is accelerating into the awesome zone

lol, iatee is not in the Film Guy lodge. joeks, dude

"No man, no problem" -> "No Woman, No Cry"

it's true :(

I think I saw 3 movies made in 2011

er 2010

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/328574440_d06e3e5012_o.jpg

I love the caption:

"The next day Stalin had her father shot"

i felt like a doddering old granny watching this, every time someone gave an acceptance speech i was all "i haven't seen his movie but this colin firth man seems nice, i'm happy for him" or "oh natalie bless her heart, i haven't seen her movie but i'm happy for her, she seems so sincere! and she's going to be a mommy!"

― some dude, Monday, February 28, 2011 3:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

whenever i think of "fun" the first thing that springs to mind is def an ilx film thread

This is how the Oscar thread dies, to the sound of Stalin jpgs.

i felt like a doddering old granny watching this, every time someone gave an acceptance speech i was all "i haven't seen his movie but this colin firth man seems nice, i'm happy for him" or "oh natalie bless her heart, i haven't seen her movie but i'm happy for her, she seems so sincere! and she's going to be a mommy!"

― some dude, Monday, February 28, 2011 3:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha
but yeah this was basically me too

― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, February 28, 2011 10:28 AM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if you don't feel this way you are dead inside imo

dang young stalin was hot

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Stalin_1902.jpg

n/h

Oscars is like Formula One to me, I couldn't imagine actually sitting down to watch it but I'm always interested who wins

when Deakins lost cinematography again, wanted to drop an anvil on Inception guy's head

just gonna... leave this here...

http://oi54.tinypic.com/34nfj4j.jpghttp://oi51.tinypic.com/r8s17l.jpg

we need to start a "Post pictures of a young, hawt Stalin" thread

yeah i don't really get how Portman was so obviously faking it. maybe i just don't think she's that good an actress, but not so much that i'm mad she won? it was weird being reminded when she won that she'd been nominated once before, for that terrible Clive Owen movie where she played a stripper.

wasn't she also nominated for the professional?

i'm not gonna bother to do research btw

haha she was really nominated for closer??

does "faking it" just mean that a best actress winner held her composure onstage?

well she didn't hold it together super well -- rambled and laughed and got emotional, although didn't burst into tears or anything

Yes -- supporting actress.

I would say 'closer' is better evidence for the portman-stalin connection than anything else, except maybe going to harvard

xp yeah i mean it wasn't a halle berry which i feel like is what ppl expect nowadays

'closer' was the best comedy of the decade

wtf does this even mean? you film guys are so weird

new ilf board descrip

I can't read this thread - every time anyone says 'Franco' I think they mean Jess Franco and it's doing my head in.

Young Stalin pic sorta looks like LJ.

Gen Franco

btw remember nowadays some of these folks have made 3 acceptance speeches before the Oscars

Spech 1: "I'm a bit thankful, I'll be very thankful at the next one"

re: Natalie Portman: well she didn't hold it together super well -- rambled and laughed and got emotional — this was true but also made for totally fascinating television cuz the whole time I kept wondering: just how long and rambly would she have to get before she would actually get cued off?

lol @ MacDonald:

by the time the dead guy montage starts kirk douglas will be in it
hey watching this show raises an intersting question. Is there a writers strike or something?
hey obama get on the libya thing

they weren't cuing off the acting winners--holding out for a "moment" i suppose

oh okay. I didn't really pay that much attention

lol

only actors COUNT!

ok, Macdonald seems funnier on Twitter than TV

but I thought you could still get in trouble if you went too long or w/e? I dunno

btw I loved Hathaway's electric blue dress: very Ray of Light era Maddie.

Just to clarify, I didn't think Hathaway and Franco were bad; I complimented Hathaway last night on being a good sport. (And, duh, she was great to look at.) It's just that such people are instantly forgettable. And on a show where every award was drearily predictable, you need some "Did he/she really say that?" jokes to remember. I'm sure that Melissa "Dice" Leo is the only thing anyone will ever remember from last night's show. (I'm a little skeptical about how spontaneous that was, though.)

but I thought you could still get in trouble if you went too long or w/e?

yes, they make you do a movie with Edward Norton.

I have been forced to reevaluate norm macdonald recently. my new evaluation is: awesome

(several xposts there)

norm has always been awesome!

ya I'm pretty sure I was just a herb before. didn't 'get it'. youtube video of him on conan made a tru believer of me.

btw, TKS winning four top awards and nothing 'below' script is damn unusual.

you film guys are so weird

Mods, please can we use this as the strapline for the I Love Film board?

"Mods, please can we use this as the strapline for the I Love Film board?"

.. is what should be on the strapline for ILF.

norm has always killed on talk shows, i guess SNL just didn't know how to use him

Young Stalin pic sorta looks like LJ.

― ENBB, Monday, February 28, 2011 4:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^^^

i guess SNL just didn't know how to use him

Yeah, they never did, but I liked his tenure as Weekend Update host. That recent SNL behind the scene special definitely led the viewer to believe he was canned for too many OJ jokes.

TamTam where did you find the kings speech/gay porn thing?

and is the porn called The King's Peach?

TKS' actual set was used for a gay porn shoot! It's not a spoof.

Actually, vice versa, the gay porn set was where some of TKS was shot.

xxpost

The King's Speech set has been outed for a few days now http://www.avclub.com/articles/yes-the-kings-speech-was-shot-on-a-former-gay-porn,52295/

Was also in an Amy Winehouse video.

Oh, that linked article says that. As you were.

i'm guessing nobody won the $100k contest

Funnier than anything on the Oscars last night:

"Could Mr. Firth smell earthy chode rubbings mucking the arms of the furniture? Did Ms. Carter feel the sweaty undulations dripped onto the rotting walls of their decrepit hideaway? Did Mr. Rush taste the faint hint of semen and man-pussy in the air and think, "Ahhhhh! History!"?"

Ha, sort of like the idea that once a porn flick (gay or straight) shoots on a location then that location is forever more branded a porn set. Like, sorry guys, this set has been sullied. Either find a new location or bring out the bulk bleach

wondering now if the bradbury building or ennis house have ever been used as porn sets.

u know, i bet the 'snookered' set was pretty clean. those guys douche themselves spotless and there was probably a cast member whose sole job was to wield the shamwow. and theyre gay, it's gonna be clean when theyre done with it.

some commentary links:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2952

best thing about norm macdonald tweets is that you can hear them in his voice: the opening was great but would have been better if it was interminably longer. Or that looks nothing like a black swan. looks like some lady. nice try though

i had no idea AS Hamrah was still writing, let alone for n+1

http://nplusonemag.com/bad-influences-bad-personalities
http://nplusonemag.com/oscar-preview-2011

oh, why the hell were Brolin and Bardem dressed like identical waiters? Missed that in the hubbub.

their segment was 'about' the first oscar awards or something

has anyone seen any of the short film entries? my local art theater's been screening them in ~100 minute blocks (one for animated shorts, one for live action). i checked out the animated shorts screening, which was the 5 nominees plus 2 of the ten pre-selected 'highly commended' shorts. i thought the best one was actually one of the commended non-nominees, plympton's The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger. Second best was probably a tie between the actual winner and the Pixar short. wondering if the live-action ones are worth seeing.

norm mcdonald's epic celebrity who wants to be a millionaire appearance is totally worth youtubing.

also norm & gordon ramsay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4LdP2Ii_3Q

omg

Granted I had't seen any of the other nominees, but I was a little sad Day & Night didn't win. That was the best Pixar short they've ever done.

i liked Day & Night, it was snappy and had the best production values, but The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger made me laugh more. I was surprised D&N didn't win though, it seemed like a shoe-in to me.

they don't often give Pixar shorts oscars though

True, but I'm not sure many of the others have been Oscar worthy before this one. There's been some cute ones, but this was the only one I thought might have had a really good shot.

I think Gukbe's being sarcastic, because they've won 3 Oscars for animated shorts.

Didn't mind Hathaway and Franco that much... They did the best they could with the rotten lines given to them though their coping strategy was to load up on quaaludes and pretend they're in a high school talent show.

Not sure I like having movie industry folks host though... What was great about Johnny Carson (and Letterman to some degree) is that they didn't have to really be diplomatic or nice with anyone in the room that's a future employer/agent - just entertain and keep the show moving along.

Letterman remains my favorite host, but I understand why he wasn't invited back.

I think Gukbe's being sarcastic, because they've won 3 Oscars for animated shorts.

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12:28 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

no sarcasm. they haven't won one since 2000, almost like the Academy recognized their ascendency to the top of the Animated film pile and decided not to award their short films anymore.

I loved Letterman when he hosted, though I was in my early teens I think. I never understood why he's generally considered the ultimate bomb when it comes to Oscars hosts.

Even more the Oprah/Uma, I still remember Letterman's dig at Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon--that's the one that did him in, I imagine. (I don't understand the ultimate bomb idea, either. It's simply not true.)

no sarcasm. they haven't won one since 2000, almost like the Academy recognized their ascendency to the top of the Animated film pile and decided not to award their short films anymore.

― Gukbe, Monday, February 28, 2011 7:44 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Ah, I see, yeah. Yeah, I probably would find any Pixar win a little disappointing regardless of quality - you want to see the small timers get their shine here. I'm surprised Plympton's never won!

It was quite a feat for Letterman to get Paul Newman to say, "Wanna buy a monkey?"

I love #5 and #6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3F6u6rCF4

i'm not sure i 'get' the idea that actors like Hathaway & Franco are inherently too close to the industry in a way that comics and talk show hosts aren't. obv the more seasoned comics might have sharper material or might be more fearless about going for the less polite jokes, but i don't know if that's because Billy Crystal and Jon Stewart are less beholden to show business or whatever the rationale is.

Billy Crystal falls about halfway. But a Carson or Stewart or Letterman makes his living making fun of movie-star inanity and pretension--they (or their writers, but in the end it amounts to the same thing) have a sixth sense about it, in a way that I just don't think people like Hathaway or Franco do (not least of all because they're so young). Try to imagine someone like Anne Hathaway calling out the pomposity of Tim Robbins (or, in today's currency, Sean Penn). It's just not going to happen.

Letterman got flak for 'turning the Oscars into an episode of his show,' like that isn't an improvement.

CLASSIC MELISSA LEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRkGPwCEs_I

so who else won a free 3-month Mubi subscrip for beating Ebert? (He must've done real bad, cuz I only went 13/24)

Try to imagine someone like Anne Hathaway calling out the pomposity of Tim Robbins (or, in today's currency, Sean Penn). It's just not going to happen.

― clemenza, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 1:04 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

otm. they should have got kristen stewart to host imo.

and martin starr

lol they should've had the entire cast of Adventureland mumble through the whole ceremony. Eisenberg couldn't have been much more distant than Franco.

maybe give Van Wilder some morphine though