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Winner: High School Musical stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens

Three years and a month ago, a made-for-Disney Channel movie received a low key release. Six months ago, the third film in the series became the biggest musical opening weekend of all time. Last night, the stars of that franchise were central players in an Academy Awards tribute to musicals. Let's just say that their star is at its pinnacle.

Loser: Grown-ups

Who the Hell were those two kids singing with Beyonce and Hugh Jackman?

And finally...

Push: Hugh Jackman

He has not received the exemplary praise some of his predecessors attained but he also avoided the "Orpah! Uma!" pitfalls that have slain previous hosts. There are divisive opinions among our staff about which side of the ledger Jackman's performance merits. On the plus side, he was as charming as always and he offered rare polish for a host, which is unsurprisingly given his experience with The Tonys. On the negative side, he flubbed his lines a couple of times, he sang the wrong line during a musical number, and he occasionally suffered from Harvey Korman-itis, failing to extract himself from a giggle loop in the appropriate amount of time. On the whole, we don't think his performance is going to wreck X-Men Origins: Wolverine's box office or anything, but we also don't see him getting Van Helsing 2 or the like greenlighted because of this.

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