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BOP Staff Oscars Blog RecapFebruary 24, 2013
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's impersonation of Bruce Willis for Looper apparently includes stealing his widow's peak in real life. - Reagen Sulewski, 6:53 pm
Do we have any evidence that Jessica Chastain is not actually a time traveler from 1947? - Reagen Sulewski, 6:59 pm For anyone tuning in early, the official start of the Oscars ceremony starts at 8:30pm East coast time on ABC. ABC will have the exclusive red carpet wrapup starting at 8pm. Right now, you can see red carpet coverage on CW (until 7:30), CNN (until 7:30), E! (until 8pm), and ABC through to the show start. - Max Braden, 7:03 pm The tensile strength of whatever is holding all of Kristin Chenoweth's hair and skin back has to be off the charts. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:03 pm Some of us will be commenting on the red carpet arrivals, and when the show starts, we'll get straight to it. - Kim Hollis, 7:06 pm If you're Channing Tatum's pregnant wife, do you look at the size of his head and pray that's a recessive gene? - Reagen Sulewski, 7:08 pm Amanda Seyfried has to be thrilled to be standing next to someone who makes her look tall. Like, I think she could dunk on Chenoweth. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:10 pm She also looks like that corset is giving her permanent spinal damage. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:11 pm A peek into Lara's thoughts right now: "No more interviews with grade schoolers." - Reagen Sulewski, 7:14 pm Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Chenoweth are pitching their all-female remake of Twins right now. - Edwin Davies, 7:16 pm I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence has Hunger Games flashbacks walking the Red Carpet. Although it probably would have been very hard to find a dress that was actually on fire. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:18 pm Anne Hathaway appears to be wearing an anatomically correct dress by Joel Schumacker. - Max Braden, 7:18 pm Nothing screams Academy Awards like an ad for Breaking Dawn Part 2. How many nominations did it get? - David Mumpower, 7:19 pm Dear Catherine Zeta-Jones: eyebrows don't do that. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:21 pm Naomi Watts dressed tonight as 7 of 9. - Max Braden, 7:21 pm Michael Douglas is starting to look eerily similar to the final Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. - David Mumpower, 7:22 pm Zeta-Jones is cannily hiding the fact that she is going to perform a medley of songs from Rock of Ages. - Edwin Davies, 7:22 pm Liev Schreiber is desperately hoping no one asks him about Movie 43. Though that's true of most of the attendees. - Edwin Davies, 7:23 pm Do the British ever remake American films the way that we did with Fever Pitch? Daniel Radcliffe would make a perfect Rudy in what I presume would be a soccer film set at Cambridge. - David Mumpower, 7:24 pm David, we have remade American TV shows. There's a truly awful British version of That 70's Show which I would say needs to be seen to be believed, but really no one needs to see or believe it. - Edwin Davies, 7:26 pm It was just cruel to make Kevin O'Connell stand in line to hold one of those Oscars on that cross-country tour. "Yoink! Maybe next time, Kevin!" - Reagen Sulewski, 7:27 pm Edwin, did the star of it create a British version of Punk'd soon afterward? Or date the British equivalent of Demi Moore? - David Mumpower, 7:28 pm Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a natural at Hollywood class. - Max Braden, 7:32 pm After a few moments of reflection, that's a genius Oscars drinking game. Every time a cast member of Movie 43 appears, drink! - David Mumpower, 7:33 pm David, that is coincidentally the only way to tolerate watching Movie 43. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:34 pm I find it hilarious when shows do a montage based around Google. "Look, we know you could find all this stuff for yourself, but we've got six hours of programming to fill." - Reagen Sulewski, 7:34 pm So we have almost an hour before the start of the show. What are the stories you are tracking with this year's awards? - David Mumpower, 7:37 pm Why is it that if Bradley Cooper takes his mom to the prom, he's a total loser but if he takes her to the Oscars, he's perceived as such a great guy? - David Mumpower, 7:39 pm Hey, the Oscar Mystery Box! That's not a forced bit at all? On a seemingly unrelated note, has anyone seen Gwyneth Paltrow yet tonight? - Reagen Sulewski, 7:40 pm Who came up with the questions for these interviews? Joseph Gordon-Levitt is all classy talking about the glory of Hollywood and he gets asked "What color are your socks?" Really? - Kim Hollis, 7:41 pm I think Best Supporting Actor is the most interesting major category in years. I can make a case for any of the five nominees winning. I'm also watching to see which of the multi-nominated films is going to walk away empty-handed. At least one of Zero Dark Thirty, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook and Lincoln could get shut out. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:43 pm David, sadly not, though the guys who wrote the British That 70's Show did go on to create the great sitcom Peep Show, so every cloud. - Edwin Davies, 7:44 pm Considering what was actually happening in Britain in the 70s, that had to be the most depressing comedy ever. - Reagen Sulewski, 7:46 pm The surprise for me this year is that Les Mis wasn't the steamroller to beat every other nominated movie. I think it would have been unstoppable in the early/mid-90s. - Max Braden, 7:47 pm Reagen, I agree that Best Supporting Actor is the most interesting category. It's easy to say that any of them *should* win. I just have no idea what's going to happen there. - Kim Hollis, 7:47 pm Best Actress is the one I'm most interested in. It's a very strong year for lead actress performances and there's an argument to be made for any of them. I personally want Jessica Chastain to win, but they're all deserving. - Edwin Davies, 7:47 pm De Niro is already reconsidering the decision to start acting well enough to be nominated again. "It's not worth it if I have to do these interviews." - Reagen Sulewski, 7:54 pm Reagen, something I find fascinating about tonight's show is the corollary of what you touched upon earlier. If none of the big films gets shut out, we could be looking at a year where nothing wins more than three or four times. - David Mumpower, 7:54 pm De Niro has the air of someone attending a reunion he's already bored of. - Edwin Davies, 7:54 pm Daniel Radcliffe is Apparating all over the red carpet this evening. - Edwin Davies, 7:55 pm I'm also fascinated by Best Actress, which seemed like an epic match-up between Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence. Now some old biddy from France is trying to muscle her way in. - David Mumpower, 7:56 pm Radcliffe has no time for all these interviews, he has to go backstage and tabulate the votes for PricewaterhouseCoopers. - Max Braden, 7:57 pm Everyone gets asked "Who are you wearing tonight?" at these things, with the exception of Daniel Day-Lewis, who gets asked "Who are you playing?" I think he's come as Quvenzhane Wallis. - Edwin Davies, 7:58 pm Nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis is better behaved on the Red Carpet than Kristen Stewart. Stop fidgeting! - Reagen Sulewski, 7:58 pm To wit, here are Robert De Niro's roles in the 2000s: Meet the Parents, 15 Minutes, The Score, Showtime, City by the Sea, Analyze That, Godsend, Shark Tale, Meet the Fockers, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hide and Seek, Arthur and the Invisibles, The Good Shepherd, Stardust, Righteous Kill, What Just Happened, Everybody's Fine, Machete, Stone, Little Fockers, Killer Elite, Limitless, New Year's Eve (no, really), The Ages of Love, Being Flynn, Red Lights, Freelancers and Silver Linings Playbook. - David Mumpower, 8:00 pm There are high school sophomores who had no idea why everyone is always praising De Niro's acting ability prior to Silver Linings Playbook's released. - David Mumpower, 8:01 pm Didn't get a word of that, Adele. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:05 pm I like Stacy Keibler's art deco dress and how it matches the silver in George Clooney's beard. - Max Braden, 8:07 pm It's always amused me that you apparently need accountants for Hollywood to be able to tell which of five numbers is bigger than the others. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:08 pm Daniel Radcliffe and Adele should do a buddy comedy together. I guarantee it would be better than Identity Thief. - David Mumpower, 8:09 pm "Directed by Guy Ritchie" - Reagen Sulewski, 8:10 pm Also, Adele should never stand next to Kristen Chenoweth. She looks like that women's wrestler, Queen Kong. - David Mumpower, 8:11 pm Anne's gonna put Kristin's eye out with those things. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:12 pm There better be room for Bill Nighy. Seriously, you legally can't make a film in Britain without the involvement of one cast member from Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. - Edwin Davies, 8:12 pm Reagen, isn't that the same dress Madonna wore during the Truth Or Dare tour? - David Mumpower, 8:13 pm "Who are you wearing?" "Joel Schumacher." - Reagen Sulewski, 8:13 pm "And you're here with your...daughter?" I love that this is actually a risky question at these events. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:15 pm So they keep showing this mystery box and ask celebrities to guess what it is. I'm getting a Primer vibe from it. - David Mumpower, 8:15 pm Next year we'll see Daniel Day-Lewis nominated for this red carpet interview. - Edwin Davies, 8:17 pm The red shoes could still be capable of time travel. It's no weirder a possibility than the Wizard of Oz nonsense. - David Mumpower, 8:17 pm Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna clean up at the Carpies, the award show for Red Carpet interviews. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:18 pm Halle Berry's dress is by Tim Burton, it seems. - Edwin Davies, 8:19 pm Speaking of time travel, three hours from now, Daniel Day-Lewis will become the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor three times. Eat your heart out, Spencer Tracy! - David Mumpower, 8:22 pm Renee is really regretting that all-lemon pre-show supper right now. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:24 pm Final thought before Seth McFarlane comes on - did we really think through this idea of giving a show that is notorious for running long to a guy who is famous for taking jokes and running them way past normal length? - Reagen Sulewski, 8:26 pm Who wins a fight between Queen Latifah and Adele? These are the things I think about. - David Mumpower, 8:26 pm The Amazing Race, the NFL Scouting Combine and the Academy Awards are all airing at the same time. I feel like we should somehow combine these events. - David Mumpower, 8:28 pm Anne Hathaway correctly guesses the mystery box contents as Dorothy's red shoes. - Max Braden, 8:30 pm Every time Tommy Lee Jones laughs... wait, I have no idea what happens then. It's unprecedented. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:31 pm Success! Quit while you're ahead, Seth. - Edwin Davies, 8:31 pm Countdown to giant chicken rushing the stage in 3...2... - Reagen Sulewski, 8:33 pm It's a little distracting to me to listen to Stan Smith host these things. - Kim Hollis, 8:34 pm There are people scribbling down movie titles furiously right now. "Slow down, dammit!" - Reagen Sulewski, 8:38 pm Breaking away from the standup jokes to a brief musical number was a smart choice. - Max Braden, 8:39 pm I think the surprise about William Shatner appearing is that with Seth hosting, I would have expected Patrick Stewart. - David Mumpower, 8:40 pm Is Charlize Theron starring in the Ellen Degeneres Story? - Edwin Davies, 8:40 pm Thank you Academy for not bringing out Matthew McConaughey in a loincloth and ass chaps for that dance with Theron. - Max Braden, 8:41 pm Judging by Daniel Radcliffe's height, I think this segment was directed by Peter Jackson. - Edwin Davies, 8:43 pm Live performances of Best Song used to be pee-break opportunities for me, but if they continue with the musical theme this way, I'll stay and watch. - Max Braden, 8:44 pm Is Seth going to ever do another voice besides the dog? - Tim Briody, 8:46 pm Channing Tatum and Charlize Theron almost missed on that lift. They couldn't find each other's hands. - David Mumpower, 8:46 pm This is the moment when we all realize how we all pretended The Help was a good movie last year. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:48 pm I agree that it has gone too long but the Trans Am gag was outstanding. If you have a DVR, run a slo-mo of the crowd reactions during the bits. Different people are entertained/horrified by each one. - David Mumpower, 8:51 pm I'm happy to be wrong about that one. Christoph Waltz is the nicest guy imaginable and gives great speech. - Edwin Davies, 8:51 pm Color me surprised - I'm really entertained by all of this. - Kelly Metz, 8:51 pm Bradley Cooper's mom is not impressed. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:52 pm Jack Nicholson: "Quentin who?" - Max Braden, 8:52 pm The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor goes to Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained. - Kim Hollis, 8:53 pm Waltz winning this award is like VCU earning a spot in the final four a couple of years ago. He's a giant killer. - David Mumpower, 8:54 pm David, I expect that somewhere, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are getting wildly hammered. - Reagen Sulewski, 8:54 pm He's two for two in winning Oscars for Quentin Tarantino movies, which is a statement nobody would have believed ten years ago. - Tim Briody, 8:55 pm This is Waltz's second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, both for roles written for him by Quentin Tarantino. He should never work with anyone else again. - Kim Hollis, 8:55 pm Notably, Christoph Waltz wasn't nominated for his role by the Screen Actors Guild, who instead included Javier Bardem. - Max Braden, 8:55 pm Which biopic of a 1970's country singer is Melissa McCarthy in character for? - Reagen Sulewski, 8:56 pm First presenters to die horribly this year: Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy. - David Mumpower, 8:57 pm Speaking of bits going on too long... - Reagen Sulewski, 8:57 pm Geez, spoiler alert in the Paperman intro much? - Reagen Sulewski, 8:58 pm The Academy Award for Best Animated Short goes to Paperman. - Kim Hollis, 8:58 pm I mentioned a while ago that when I saw Wreck-It Ralph that Paperman immediately became my favorite animated short. I'm thrilled that it won an Oscar. - David Mumpower, 8:59 pm The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film goes to Brave. - Kim Hollis, 8:59 pm Hey, it's the woman they fired from the movie! Good to know you still get an Oscar if that happens. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:00 pm Camera #3, pull back, pull back, we can't have any puffy kilt images slip through. - Max Braden, 9:00 pm For a second there I thought they were getting Best Picture out of the way reaaaaly early. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:01 pm I love Pixar as a rule but Brave was at best the third best Animated Film in the category. Wreck-It Ralph and Pirate: Band of Misfits are unquestionably superior movies. - David Mumpower, 9:01 pm Wait, Richard Parker wasn't nominated for Best Supporting Actor? This whole thing is sham of a charade of a travesty! - Edwin Davies, 9:03 pm ...and Clooney's opening the minibar bottle. - Max Braden, 9:05 pm When they're not in costume, I'm confident I can wreck every cast member of The Avengers. The only one over 5'9" is Samuel Jackson and he's 64. - David Mumpower, 9:06 pm Man, Fabio has really let himself go. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:07 pm The Academy Award for Best Cinematography goes to Life of Pi. - Kim Hollis, 9:07 pm We can debate the Cinematography of it until we're blue in the fact, but Life of Pi has the type of visuals that justify the existence of HDTV. - David Mumpower, 9:08 pm Aside from the fantasy elements in Life of Pi, it had the sharpest 3D I've ever seen. - Max Braden, 9:08 pm The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects goes to Life of Pi. That's two awards for Life of Pi so far. - Kim Hollis, 9:10 pm There is in-fighting among The Avengers! There goes the sequel! Alternately, this is a clever planting of the seed for a Civil War storyline. - David Mumpower, 9:10 pm David - would you still recommend Pi even without a HDTV, or not able to be seen in 3D? Is the rest of the movie as good as the special effects? - Kelly Metz, 9:11 pm The integration of Life of Pi's tiger was seamless, but I would have given Visual Effects to Prometheus. - Max Braden, 9:12 pm Use of the Jaws theme: clever, or mean? Especially given that they shut the guy's mic off. - Edwin Davies, 9:13 pm Thematically appropriate play-off music is an idea whose time has come. The exact timing of that was a little unfortunate considering he was sending out a plea for financial help. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:13 pm I feel bad for winners who have less time than others, but you can't pretend this isn't big business, and everybody should be well aware of the need to stay within (time) budget. - Max Braden, 9:17 pm Let's not think about how Channing Tatum knows what Clooney looks like first thing in the morning. - Tim Briody, 9:17 pm Man, the software on Channing Tatum 2.0 has really improved. He almost seems lifelike. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:17 pm Kelly, I fervently believe that the visuals are a key aspect of the story. It's a movie that is lessened if not seen in HD. - David Mumpower, 9:17 pm The Academy Award for Achievement in Costume Design goes to Anna Karenina. - Kim Hollis, 9:18 pm Swords King, Findlater and Lane sounds like a brief plot description of The Hobbit. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:19 pm The Academy Award for Achievement in Makeup and Hair Styling goes to Les Miserables. - Kim Hollis, 9:19 pm Shouldn't the hairstyling winners have good hair? - Reagen Sulewski, 9:20 pm From what I saw in the trailer for Hitchcock, it demonstrates that even makeup artists can't work miracles and make one person look like another. - Max Braden, 9:20 pm All winners now greatly fearing the Jaws theme starting. - Tim Briody, 9:21 pm "Oscar-winner Halle Berry" still seems weird to me. - Edwin Davies, 9:22 pm The Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards from 11 nominations; The Hobbit is now 0 for 2 with Production Design remaining. - David Mumpower, 9:23 pm Halle just about got the Academy fined by the FCC with the syllables she chose to emphasize on "Pussy Galore". - Reagen Sulewski, 9:23 pm Such a gentleman Connery was, letting that woman take the hit on the head with a bottle for him. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:25 pm I don't think I ever realized how much the lyrics of Goldfinger sound like a drunk rambling at the bar. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:26 pm For the celebration of 50 years of Bond, it's totally appropriate that Shirley Bassey would come out in a gold dress (and with a gold microphone) to sing Goldfinger. - Kim Hollis, 9:26 pm I'm pleased a ton they went with Bassey instead of bringing out McCartney. - Max Braden, 9:27 pm ~Gooooolldddfinga!/He never calls back/even after a date/He's a... Golllllddddfinga!~ - Reagen Sulewski, 9:28 pm As a huge Bond fan, I couldn't get enough of that montage/song. I loved it. - Kelly Metz, 9:29 pm I stopped typing/thinking/researching to watch the Bond montage, which is the highest praise I can give anything. - David Mumpower, 9:30 pm I have to say that the first hour of The Academy Awards has flown by. The pacing this year has been *much* better than normal. - David Mumpower, 9:31 pm The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short goes to Curfew. - Kim Hollis, 9:33 pm Kelly, Max and I were the only staff members who guessed correctly in this category. And I emphasize the word guessed. - David Mumpower, 9:34 pm Consistently, the winners for the shorts give amazing, heartfelt speeches. You just know this is the most amazing thing they could imagine happening to them. - Edwin Davies, 9:35 pm The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short goes to Inocente. - Kim Hollis, 9:35 pm Thinking back to that Bond segment - isn't it kind of awkward for them to choose a song as their closer for that they didn't even nominate? I can recall exactly one of the songs that was nominated that year. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:36 pm Daron and Shalimar were the only staff members who guessed correctly in this category. I'm going to presume that they had skill, knowledge and insight. Alternately, they like to say Inocente. - David Mumpower, 9:37 pm Oh, please, David. I totally knew that was going to win. (What won again?) - Kelly Metz, 9:37 pm "I could have gotten all the hostages out all by myself, but I was too young back then." - Max Braden, 9:38 pm These clip montages of the Best Picture nominees are showing up the actual trailers used to promote them. - Max Braden, 9:40 pm I like how the Best Picture nominees are being shown in groups of 3. It cuts a lot of time from the telecast. - Kelly Metz, 9:42 pm The crowd really isn't giving Seth MacFarlane a lot to work with. He's being much funnier than they're acknowledging. - David Mumpower, 9:42 pm Remember, if you saw Ted, this whole thing is kind of your fault. - Tim Briody, 9:42 pm Too soon, Seth, too soon! - Reagen Sulewski, 9:42 pm The Academy Award for Best Documentary goes to Searching for Sugar Man. - Kim Hollis, 9:44 pm I actually think Seth MacFarlane is doing a solid job - it's the presenters who are sucking for the most part. - Kim Hollis, 9:45 pm Searching For Sugar Man was my second favourite film of last year, and would have been number one were it not for Django coming out right at the end. Very pleased that it won. - Edwin Davies, 9:46 pm I wonder if Seth is toying with putting the next nail in the coffin by hitting Hollywood with a Clinton joke. - Max Braden, 9:46 pm Jaws count: 2 - Tim Briody, 9:46 pm Two of the people posting in this blog (not me) voted Searching for Sugar Man as the best movie of the year, so I know they are thrilled about this turn of events. - David Mumpower, 9:47 pm It seems that this year they aren't showing reaction shots after a host's joke. That seems new. Does *nobody* there find Seth MacFarlane funny (or, alternately, offensive)? - Kelly Metz, 9:48 pm I didn't know have any basis to predict Sugar Man other than it was the one documentary I knew by name, maybe because I think it was featured on NPR. - Max Braden, 9:49 pm The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film goes to Amour. - Kim Hollis, 9:50 pm Hey, it's Saruman! - Reagen Sulewski, 9:51 pm Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain are presenting this award. I find myself wondering why Sydney Bristow spent so much time focusing on Rambaldi artifacts instead of hunting Osama bin Laden. - David Mumpower, 9:51 pm The vibe I'm getting from this pair is if you disappoint Garner, she'll cry and make you feel bad. If you disappoint Chastain, she will destroy you, and you will feel bad. - Max Braden, 9:51 pm Michael Haneke's English is better than Adele's. - Kelly Metz, 9:52 pm I think the number of facial muscles that John Travolta can move are counted in the single digits. - Reagen Sulewski, 9:53 pm Filmmaker Michael Haneke accepts the award. At the age of 70, he looks like grim death yet he is much younger than the stars of Amour, who are 82 and 86. There must have been a record setting amount of Gold Bond on that set. - David Mumpower, 9:53 pm Big and brassy music this evening. - Max Braden, 9:55 pm First Bond, now musicals? I feel woozy over here. - Kelly Metz, 9:57 pm Chicago won what felt like every award 10 years ago and I'm still sick of it. - Tim Briody, 9:58 pm Weird that they're doing a tribute to musicals from the last decade considering that the last decade has been terrible for musicals. - Edwin Davies, 9:58 pm A Salute to Movie Musicals of the Past Decade strikes me as the perfect time to cook some mozzarella sticks, take a bathroom break and maybe alphabetize the contents of my bookshelf. - David Mumpower, 9:58 pm Standing ovation. - Max Braden, 10:00 pm The use of Dreamgirls reminds me that there was a year where Eddie Murphy, Mark Wahlberg and Jackie Earle Haley were all nominated in the same category, which would confuse the hell out of a time traveler from the mid 1990s. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:00 pm So you're telling us your tribute to musicals of the last decade is a tribute to three movies? - Tim Briody, 10:02 pm Every song on this telecast should be about how terrible Seth MacFarlane is. - Les Winan, 10:03 pm I think at this point the only people they're left singing to are Clooney and Nicholson. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:04 pm Where the hell is the tribute to 8 Mile? - Edwin Davies, 10:04 pm That Les Mis montage was better than the movie. - Kelly Metz, 10:05 pm I hope Daniel Day Lewis isn't so method he gets shot in this theater. - Les Winan, 10:05 pm I keep mistaking heavily-bearded Jackman for Adrien Brody. Adrien Brody a hundred pounds heavier, I mean. - Max Braden, 10:05 pm Too soon, Les, too soon! - Reagen Sulewski, 10:06 pm It's 10 p.m. ET and we haven't even given out half the awards yet. - Kim Hollis, 10:07 pm Crowe should have gotten the "Destiny's Child members who are not Beyonce" audio treatment. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:08 pm Exactly how much money does Kristen Chenowith owe the IRS? - Les Winan, 10:08 pm The CGI on Mark Wahlberg is incredible. - Edwin Davies, 10:11 pm Ooh, it's been a few years since they had a live/animated pairing at the Oscars, right? - Max Braden, 10:11 pm The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing goes to Les Miserables. - Kim Hollis, 10:12 pm The look on Hugh Jackman's face was like "I have no idea who those people on stage are." - Reagen Sulewski, 10:14 pm A tie! Wait, what? - Tim Briody, 10:15 pm Whoa. How long has it been since we had a tie? - Kelly Metz, 10:15 pm Tie?! This ain't soccer! - David Mumpower, 10:16 pm The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is a tie between Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall. - Kim Hollis, 10:16 pm And a million Oscar pools are thrown into chaos. This is most intrigue there's ever been over the Sound Editing category. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:16 pm Wait. I'm sure that this guy just ran down really quickly to his seat and back up again. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:17 pm Sudden death runoff for the team that can make it sound like Jaws just got blown up. - Max Braden, 10:18 pm The two male winners for Sound Editing look like they're in a Nelson tribute band. - Les Winan, 10:18 pm I'm sure Christopher Plummer was less than amused, but I sure was. The Sound of Music is my favorite movie ever. - Kelly Metz, 10:20 pm I get the feeling that this is what every Sunday is like at Seth MacFarlane's house. - Les Winan, 10:21 pm The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress goes to Anne Hathaway. - Kim Hollis, 10:22 pm No, really, there can be ties?! - Tim Briody, 10:22 pm I imagine it was quite the struggle to find a scene for Helen Hunt that was suitable for broadcast. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:22 pm Hooker with a heart of gold! Movie cliches are based in fact. - David Mumpower, 10:23 pm Let's see how low the camera is willing to shoot her dress. - Max Braden, 10:23 pm The audience gasp when they announced the tie was worthy of when the Scooby Gang reveals that the ghost in the haunted house was Old Man McGillicuddy. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:24 pm Millions mourn as Hollywood drowns in Anne Hathaway's tears. - Edwin Davies, 10:24 pm Tim, I guess that's the Academy's tacit acknowledgement to The Hunger Games. - David Mumpower, 10:24 pm The way things are going, could Argo win Best Picture and only Best Picture? - Edwin Davies, 10:28 pm David, I require blood now. Screw The Hunger Games! There must be a winner! - Tim Briody, 10:28 pm We just got a Chick-Fil-A ad during the Academy Awards. I think they're missing their target audience. - David Mumpower, 10:28 pm Do we think Seth MacFarlane's hair is real?...WHOA Harvey Weinstein photo bomb! - Les Winan, 10:29 pm I think the Lawrence/Chastain cage match for the Oscar would be fantastic TV. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:30 pm So that's two hours in and the supposed front-runner Best Pic gets its first win. Although I do think this one is deserved, as much as I wasn't blown away by Argo. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:33 pm The Academy Award for Best Editing goes to Argo...so no, Edwin. - Kim Hollis, 10:33 pm This strikes me as the clearest sign of the night that Argo will win Best Picture, considering it usually goes with the film that wins Best Director (obviously can't happen) and Best Picture. - Edwin Davies, 10:34 pm Tim, it's that line of thinking that forced Seneca Crane to eat nightlock. - David Mumpower, 10:34 pm Adele is singing Skyfall. This is the moment casual fans have been awaiting in the entire show. - David Mumpower, 10:35 pm Um, audio guys? The singer shouldn't get drowned out by the band. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:36 pm And every time I look at Adele's dress, I think, "My God, it's full of stars." - David Mumpower, 10:37 pm Not enough nude silhouette dancers. - Max Braden, 10:38 pm "And in this year of saluting movie musicals, here is a live performance of exactly one of the nominees for Best Song." - Reagen Sulewski, 10:39 pm The unquestionable dynamism of Kristen Stewart, everyone! - Edwin Davies, 10:48 pm Kristen Stewart is limping. I guess the wife of that director finally caught up with her. - David Mumpower, 10:48 pm She's either acting like the pain is worse than it is, or acting like she isn't hopped up on opiates. - Max Braden, 10:49 pm Kristen Stewart looks like she's in a great deal of pain. Wait, no, that's how she always looks. - Tim Briody, 10:49 pm The Academy Award for Best Production Design goes to Lincoln. - Kim Hollis, 10:49 pm Is Kristen Stewart method acting for a remake of Drugstore Cowboy? - Reagen Sulewski, 10:49 pm This may be a first in our too-damn-many years of live blogging the Oscars. Three out of five films in the category were projected to win by various members of our staff. Lincoln was one of the two that nobody picked. - David Mumpower, 10:50 pm I think we can tell a lot about the staff's opinion of Kristen Stewart in the replies below. Nobody had said anything for 9 minutes. Stewart shows up and suddenly we're all competing in a tight race to get the fastest/best quip. - David Mumpower, 10:51 pm Tom Hanks is starting to get a bit of Old Coot in him. He'll be playing The Ol' Prospector not too long from now. - Reagen Sulewski, 10:53 pm Seth MacFarlane has stopped quipping before the commercial breaks. I think he has reached the Acceptance Phase. - David Mumpower, 10:54 pm It is nothing short of an outrage that they ghettoise the honorary awards and then begrudgingly acknowledge them for two minutes as part of the main broadcast. - Edwin Davies, 10:54 pm The vital component of showing the lesser award recap is showing the lesser winners thanking the greater Academy for their generous acceptance of the lessers as human. - Max Braden, 10:56 pm At this point, I expect George Clooney to be introduced as "Your lord and master". - David Mumpower, 10:57 pm I was hoping Seth MacFarlane would sing a song during the In Memorium segment. - Les Winan, 10:58 pm I used to think the applause competition during this segment was kind of crass, but I think the mostly-silent-with-very-occasional-applause version is almost worse. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:01 pm I guess Marvin Hamlisch is the winner of this year's In Memoriam. - Edwin Davies, 11:02 pm The more annoying star of a Seth Rogen movie is currently singing Memories. This is an excellent time to point out that Guilt Trip earned $37 million, which matches its 37% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. - David Mumpower, 11:03 pm I always said I couldn't wait until Barbra Streisand was shown during the In Memorium segment of the Oscars. - Les Winan, 11:03 pm There are 25 minutes left in the program. 8 awards have yet to be announced. In a huge shocking twist, the Oscars are running late. - David Mumpower, 11:06 pm Don't tell anyone, but I haven't seen a single Best Picture nominee but I have seen every Tinkerbell movie 30 times. I'm going to bed. - Les Winan, 11:07 pm They need to just officially bow to reality and call it a four-hour show. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:08 pm Stop going on about Chicago, we've spent the ten years trying to forget about it. - Edwin Davies, 11:08 pm Uh oh, I don't know that Rex Reed joke. (Googling... oh, critique of Melissa McCarthy's weight.) - Max Braden, 11:08 pm The Academy Awards would be a lot more entertaining if they drug tested the presenters and posted the results online. - David Mumpower, 11:09 pm Max, it's about his review of Identity Thief and his views on Melissa McCarthy. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:09 pm The Academy Award for Best Score goes to Life of Pi. - Kim Hollis, 11:10 pm Way to steal Renee's moment, Queen Latifah! - Tim Briody, 11:11 pm Richard Gere: "Glaaaadiator" - Max Braden, 11:11 pm Why pick and choose which song nominees get performed live? - Kelly Metz, 11:13 pm If anything other than Skyfall wins, Adele will effing *cut* them. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:14 pm Reagen, and that nobody gives a crap about the red carpet stuff. Start it at 7:30 and nobody would mind. - Tim Briody, 11:15 pm I think Renee Zellweger found James Franco's stash from two years ago. - David Mumpower, 11:15 pm The Academy Award for Best Original Song goes to Skyfall. - Kim Hollis, 11:16 pm I guess being the host gets you some pull about your nominated song. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:16 pm No Rock of Ages??! - Max Braden, 11:16 pm Adele is halfway to her EGOT. - Kelly Metz, 11:17 pm Remember when I said that the first hour flew by? That was six days ago! - David Mumpower, 11:18 pm Way to curse the show, David. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:19 pm I have a couple of questions about what just happened. First of all, why did they have Norah Jones play a song 20 seconds before naming someone else the category winner? Second, what did the cast of Chicago do onstage while Norah Jones was playing? That entire situation was a horrible idea. - David Mumpower, 11:20 pm The show has been really poorly organized, really. We still have six awards to go and it's almost 11:30. The filler has been...excessive. - Kim Hollis, 11:22 pm Two most physically opposite? Linda Hunt and Mo'Nique! - Reagen Sulewski, 11:23 pm Man, Theron can go from ebullient ingenue to pit-viper stare in a heartbeat. - Max Braden, 11:24 pm The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Argo. - Kim Hollis, 11:24 pm Did he just call him "Ben Halfleck"? - Reagen Sulewski, 11:25 pm This guy looks *really* scared of being Jawsed. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:25 pm The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay goes to Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained. - Kim Hollis, 11:26 pm Up until the last moment, I still thought Lincoln might win screenplay, and I thought Zero Dark Thirty was a lock. Tarantino isn't a member of the WGA so he wasn't eligible for their guild awards. - Max Braden, 11:28 pm And there's the three hour mark and the end of the show. Good night everyon... what? - Reagen Sulewski, 11:30 pm This Tim Burton Samsung ad is the weirdest thing I've ever seen whilst awake or sober. - Edwin Davies, 11:30 pm I feel like Tarantino should have about five of those by now, but this isn't a bad compromise. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:30 pm Okay, cleaning up an earlier mistake, here is the current count: Les Miserables and Life of Pi are tied with three wins. The other multiple award winners are Django Unchained, Skyfall and Argo. - David Mumpower, 11:32 pm The Academy Award for Best Director goes to Ang Lee. - Kim Hollis, 11:34 pm Our entire staff picked Spielberg in this category, which caused me to joke earlier that I should change my vote to Ang Lee just to be safe. I was stunned by the universality of opinion since this and Best Supporting Actor appeared to be the wild cards tonight. - David Mumpower, 11:35 pm Amy Adams' and Jennifer Lawrence's giant dresses are like two pillars at the head of the auditorium aisle. - Max Braden, 11:35 pm Man, I was really close to picking him in our predictions and then backed off at the last moment. I regret that now. - Kim Hollis, 11:35 pm "And now I want a second crack at The Hulk!" - Reagen Sulewski, 11:36 pm I'm missing the encore of tonight's Walking Dead! - Max Braden, 11:38 pm The loser story of the night thus far is that Silver Linings Playbook, a *Weinstein* film, has not won anything yet. If Jennifer Lawrence does not win Best Actress, it probably gets shut out. - David Mumpower, 11:39 pm I'm certain that Jean Dujardin is the result of France's attempt to clone George Clooney. - Edwin Davies, 11:42 pm Lawrence down! Lawrence down! - Max Braden, 11:43 pm The Academy Award for Best Actress goes to Jennifer Lawrence. - Kim Hollis, 11:43 pm Quvenzhané fistpumping after her clip was cute. - Max Braden, 11:43 pm I'm not at all shocked Lawrence won, but I think she was the wrong choice by a mile. - Kelly Metz, 11:44 pm Among the losers in the category, the age difference between Quvenzhané Wallis and Emmanuelle Riva is 77 years, which is approximately an Alan Arkin. Seriously. - David Mumpower, 11:44 pm She really needs practice with stairs. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:44 pm When Lawrence fell down, Hugh Jackman came rushing over to help. THAT is why everybody loves him. - David Mumpower, 11:45 pm I thought that both performances were among the best of the 2000s, Kelly, but I voted for Lawrence. Our staff has a real schism on the subject. - David Mumpower, 11:47 pm Hugh Jackman helped Jennifer Lawrence after she fell. He was just giving a hand to a fellow mutant (joke credit to Pete Kilmer). - Kim Hollis, 11:47 pm She said it so fast it almost sounded like "Denzel..." - Max Braden, 11:48 pm The Academy Award for Best Actor goes to Daniel Day-Lewis. - Kim Hollis, 11:48 pm My god, why would they show this clip for Flight? - Max Braden, 11:48 pm The big revelation of this Oscar season has been how funny Daniel Day-Lewis is. The man is a delight. - Edwin Davies, 11:50 pm As referenced four hours ago (but it feels like much longer), Daniel Day-Lewis can now stake a claim as the greatest actor of all-time. No one had ever won three Best Actor awards until now. Tom Hanks is going to push himself harder. - David Mumpower, 11:50 pm The real shock of this year has been the emergence of Daniel Day-Lewis' sense of humor. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:50 pm Laurence Olivier was before my time, but the sense I get of him is that Daniel Day-Lewis is his successor - somewhat strange and aloof, and yet so unquestionably good that you are drawn to him on or off screen. - Max Braden, 11:52 pm Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Firth should do a comedy together. They're both hilarious but nobody knows it. - David Mumpower, 11:52 pm Welcome to Jack Nicholson, King of the Academy Awards. - Kim Hollis, 11:52 pm You could almost have watched two Best Picture nominees (Argo and Beasts of the Southern Wild) during this broadcast. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:52 pm And the King of the Academy Awards introduces the First Lady of the United States. - Kim Hollis, 11:53 pm The Academy Award for Best Picture goes to Argo. - Kim Hollis, 11:55 pm Arpid from The Scorpion King has really come a long way. - Reagen Sulewski, 11:57 pm Out of our group predictions, Shalimar Sahota got the most correct with 19 (followed by Daron Aldridge with 18, David Mumpower with 17 and me with 16). As a group we got 16 (and a half) correct. - Kim Hollis, 11:58 pm "Ima let you finish, Ang Lee, but Ben Affleck directed the best movie of all time." - Max Braden, 11:58 pm What else does Ben Affleck have to do to get a spot in Ocean's 14??? - David Mumpower, 11:59 pm Life of Pi won the most Oscars with 4, followed by Argo and Les Miserables with 3. Other multiple winners (with two each) were Django Unchained, Skyfall and Lincoln. - Kim Hollis, 11:59 pm Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo. - Reagen Sulewski, 12:01 am Overall, I thought the show was okay. They've certainly had duller shows, and it helped this year that there were a couple of true tossups in the major categories. But I think I speak for everyone when I say: THERE CAN BE TIES?!??! - Tim Briody, 12:01 am I like that Seth MacFarlane goes down swinging. I can tell by my newsfeed that most people agree with me, but I thought his hosting was a best case scenario outcome. I also thought that all of the music/dance sequences save for Skyfall were a disaster, which is also not the popular option. I never seem to agree with the majority on these things. - David Mumpower, 12:03 am This closing feels like an opening number, which is triggering an icy grip of concern that there's another four hours to go. - Max Braden, 12:04 am Note for next year's show: turn up the microphones on the talent. The live band is waaaaay too loud to hear them. - David Mumpower, 12:04 am Seth's interior monologue: "Why did we write this song so damn long?!" - Reagen Sulewski, 12:04 am Remember back when we first watched Mallrats? Weren't we all thinking that the "back seat of a Volkswagen" guy would one day direct an Academy Award winning movie? - David Mumpower, 12:06 am Never underestimate the Fashionable Male. - Tim Briody, 12:15 am Thanks to all for reading and participating in the live blog this evening. Good night, everyone! - Kim Hollis, 12:15 am
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