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Good evening folks! Go put on your tux’s and gowns and start the champagne poppin’! Welcome to Very Aware’s live blog of tonight’s 83rd Annual Academy Awards! If you have been watching pre-show red carpet coverage, you’ve seen tonight’s best dresses and fashion’s faux-pas. Heads up, red is *THE* color of the evening. Anyways… stay tuned to our awards show coverage right here once the show begins at 5pm (PT)/ 8pm (ET). And just so you know, there will be SPOILERS and maybe a few typos.
Thank you Jezebel, Hollywood Life , MTV and EW for the photos!
8:41pm (Courtney/ Manny) So they made all the winners stand backstage until this?! The show is ovah folks! (Manny) I have a feeling this might make Leo go mad with power. (Courtney) Oscars…more like blahscars. Am I wrong saying it was very uneventful? I guess this mess is what happens when comedians don’t host.
8:40pm (Courtney) As everyone is getting up to leave, PS22 is here to manipulate our emotions by singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”. (Brandon) WHAT IS GOING ON!
8:37pm (Courtney/ Manny) WOW! Not a good dress change for Ms. Hathaway. (Courtney) Lacy nips! Lacy nips!!!! LACY NIPS!!! Tom Ford steered her WRONG.
BEST PICTURE: THE KING’S SPEECH
8:20pm (Manny) Sandra Bullock does like to point out that she is Mexican. She’s gotta single out Javier Bardem. (Courtney) Honestly I would single out Bardem with a “How YOU doin’?” too. BEST ACTOR: COLIN FIRTH – THE KING’S SPEECH
Well deserved win, but let’s be honest. He should have won for A SINGLE MAN.
8:11pm (Courtney) Franco seems over this. Jeff Bridges on to announce. (Manny) They are doing the “jedi counsel” thing with just one guy!
BEST ACTRESS: NATALIE PORTMAN – BLACK SWAN
(Courtney) Fun fact: the Academy does love pregnant women. Catherine Zeta-Jones & Rachel Weitz both won whilst preggo. Also- Portman wasn’t “NORBIT’ed” by NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
8:06 pm (Courtney) Annette Benning’s dress looks like it’s really heavy. There have been a ton of segments that go nowhere and are a lot to do about nothing. This Eli Wallach, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brownlaw thing went nowhere.
8:02pm (Courtney) Dress change! This time a phenomenal Armani Prive sapphire stunner!
BEST DIRECTOR: TOM HOOPER – THE KING’S SPEECH
7:56pm (Courtney) “blazing trails” indeed Halle….Franco is blazing a trail backstage too…. if you know what I mean.
7:53pm (Manny) “Zee best singer in zah world”, Celine Dion, is singing now in a in-memoriam performance evoking MJ. (Courtney) ooh let’s see who they’ve forgotten segment…. Uh Corey Haim. Apparently, unlike me, the Academy is NOT a fan of LICENSE TO DRIVE.
7:50pm (Manny) Will Halle Berry talk about “opening doors and black ladies”?!?
7:49pm (Brandon) It’s been a very boring show but I’m still happy that Wally Pfister and Christian Bale won.
7:45pm (Courtney) This dress is good for Gwynnie but her hair looks stringy. Good for her for having the balls to sing in front of this country. (Manny) surprised she gets nervous. “You’ve sung so much and your husband is Coldplay!”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: RANDY NEWMAN – “WE BELONG TOGETHER”
(Courtney) I’m not quite getting this Newman tirade acceptance speech. Newman now joins the elite, which includes Three Six Mafia.
7:41pm (Courtney) Dress change for Ms. Hathaway. Atelier Versace burgundy silk chiffon which was far better than what she walked the red carpet in (not a euphemism)
7:35pm BEST EDITING: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
7:32pm (Courtney) Someone hire Robert Downey Jr. to host an awards show please! BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: INCEPTION
7:27pm (Courtney) BILLY CRYSTAL WILL MAKE THIS RIGHT! Wait… a tribute to Bob Hope? Weird and out of place. Come Monday, Letterman will be praising Franco/ Hathaway for de-throning him as claiming “the worst host” title.
7:21pm BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: INSIDE JOB. (Courtney/ Manny) Collective sigh. We will still never know who Banksy is….
7:19pm (Courtney) Autotune segment. Not funny and people in Midwest Auto-TUNED OUT!
7:17pm (Courtney) Another dress change by co-host Anne. This time a 70′s inspired tasselly number.
7:15pm BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: GOD OF LOVE (Brandon) Classic Matheny!
7:12pm Bad Weed Alert!! Franco looks pasty & paranoid. (Manny) Amy Adams- sweetie you look like you are at the beginning of a Nice N’ Easy commercial. (Courtney) The dress with the necklace is the definition of overkill.
BEST SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: STRANGERS NO MORE
7:03pm Best Original Song nominee performances by Randy Newman. Up next, Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi perform. Mandy Moore hits it outta the park with her dresses! (Courtney) What happened to the other song nominees?! It’s commercial break. Is Gwyneth refusing to take the stage until everyone in the theater subscribes to GOOP?!
6:59pm BEST COSTUME DESIGN: COLLEEN ATWOOD – ALICE IN WONDERLAND . If anything, this is THE ONLY REASON to see this film. (Manny) It sucks that below the line people get played off and actors don’t. Actors get to talk all the damn time.
6:57pm (Courtney/ Manny) We’ve decided Cate Blanchett’s dress would look better on Tilda Swinton.
After watching the montage, presenter Cate said “That’s gross” which earns another laugh.
BEST MAKEUP: THE WOLFMAN
6:54pm (Courtney) Will Marissa Tomei come out and say her name was really on her Oscar award winning envelope? (Look it up kids!) Nope! She presented the technical Oscars. “Congrats NERDS!” says Franco, which earns a much deserved laugh from me.
6:49pm (Courtney) I would like them to explain the difference between mixing vs. editing. BEST SOUND EDITING: INCEPTION
6:46pm (Courtney) Old people confused again with 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon joke. (Brandon) The King’s Speech got a sound mixing nod? Really? The sound was all screwed up in the movie. I couldn’t understand a thing Colin Firth said.
BEST SOUND MIXING: INCEPTION
6:43pm (Courtney) The zinger as gifted to me by my friend Erin, “I don’t suppose Trent Reznor is gonna say to his wife “I wanna F&*% you like an animal”.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
6:41pm (Manny) BLACK SWAN dress change #4 (Vivian Westwood) for Anne Hathaway…. aaand now the Austrailians! Instead of doing the “jedi counsel” segments, it’s now “film school” for the young un’s who don’t know film existed before the 80’s.
6:30pm (Courtney/ Manny) Reese Witherspoon swaggerjack’s Julia Roberts Oscar winning look.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: CHRISTIAN BALE – THE FIGHTER Jesus Bale gets a haircut and is now Lumberjack Bale. Nice callback to his F-bomb tirade in his winning speech. Someone booed when he plugged Dickie Eckland’s website. (Brandon) I’m loving Bale’s short hair/beard look
6:27pm BEST FOREIGN FILM: IN A BETTER WORLD (Denmark)(Brandon) Does Denmark even count as a foreign country?
6:20pm (Manny) Anne Hathaway dress change to a Lanvin tux (dress change #3) singing “On My Own” parody about Hugh Jackman. I’d rather hear her sing than Lea Michelle sing…..aaaand her shoes are amazing! James makes a better Marilyn Monroe than Xtina. (Courtney) Charlie Sheen joke was a zinger! This may be the only laugh of the evening. Let’s treasure it. (Brandon) The audience would have booed if Ricky Gervais made that Charlie Sheen joke.
6:18 pm (Courtney/ Manny) after being played off, the words echod from Aaron Sorkin: “Now lets get drunk and do some ‘shrooms!” not really.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: DAVID SEIDLER – THE KING’S SPEECH
6:14pm (Courtney) Surprised Anne Hathaway hasn’t changed dresses again… not that she needs to or anything. (Manny) Presenters Josh Brolin & Javier Bardem: “oh my god they got gay married!” (Courtney) Perhaps they are cater-waiters at the Governer’s Ball?!
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: AARON SORKIN – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
6:06pm BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: TOY STORY 3
6:02 pm (Courtney/ Manny) Mila Kunis & Justin Timberlake present. Old people all over this country are confused and young people are all irritated. (Brandon) Justin Timberlake used the word “process”. He truly is an actor now.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT: THE LOST THING
5:57pm BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: MELISSA LEO – THE FIGHTER (Courtney) All her crazy campaigning worked! Sweet exchange between KD & ML. F-bomb dropped during acceptance speech.
5:47 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Wally Pfister – INCEPTION
5:45pm BEST ART DIRECTION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND(Brandon) Get out of my Oscars, ALICE IN WONDERLAND! Teehee, the little Oscar had a little hat.
5:43 (Courtney/ Manny) what was with that GONE WITH THE WIND pause?! and now TITANIC? Tom Hanks if you want to stay beloved, you’ll get on with this!
5:35 (Courtney/ Manny) technical difficulties from us. Way better dress change from Anne Hathaway. Loved seeing Morgan Freeman in montage. It’s so quiet in the kodak theater you can hear a pin drop. (Manny) Morgan Freeman wins the bit!
5:30 (Courtney) The show is about to begin!
5:17 (Courtney) How many times do we think Anne Hathaway will change her dress?! I think it’ll be 7 costume changes. This Valentino is what she walked the red carpet in.
5:14 (Courtney/ Manny) No one is wearing Galliano. Gwyneth’s dress looks best in HD. The earrings are a faux-pas.
5:06 (Brandon) I’m going to say pretty high, Courtney. High on EXCITEMENT (and pot)!
5:03 (Courtney/ Manny) How (allegedly) high is James Franco?!
5:02 (Brandon) Wow, Natalie Portman really is pregnant. She seems rather calm and collected for having a child growing inside her.
5:00pm (Courtney) GAH! Thirty minute pre-show hidden in the telecast.
Once again, Oscar disappoints in originality, courage, boldness, and predictability reigned. But in most cases what was to be expected was also the best available choice.
If you really asked me Toy Story 3 should have won and Christopher Nolan should have been recognized at least as a screen-writer, or even better as a director for what was one of the most inventive and original film of the year: Inception. Instead the Academy opted for the most obvious Tom Hooper: his directing on “The King’s Speech” was showy, obvious, by number and lacked of any subtlety (you can see read my review, which was written long before the film even got released).
Is this guy really worthy of standing in the same league as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Roman Polanski,Oliver Stone, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Wise, George Cukor, Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese, Vincente Minnelli, David Lean, John Ford, Michael Curtiz, just to mention a few?
And yes, of course, Colin Firth was good, but was he really better than James Franco in 127 hours, a film that was entirely dependent on him stuck in a hole? No, he wasn’t. However he deserved the Award last year for “A Single Man” and even Colin himself knows that (that’s why he thanked Tom Ford in his speech).
The Social Network, even though that too was a flawed movie, felt more like a solid piece of film-making.
Well, you can obviously tell I am a bit disappointed…. Oh well, that’s the way it is. The King’s Speech joins the list of Oscar winner crowd-pleasing films, like Shakespeare in Love or Crash, Driving Miss Daisy and so on. Films that found themselves at the right time in the right place and got away with winning (Hurt Locker, or even Ordinary Men). Not bad ones, but not that great either.
On the whole this was one of the lamest show in the last few years. James Franco was under-used and Anne Hathaway she felt stiff and was confined by a silly, bitty, and unfunny script.
There was nothing remarkable about the show itself: no glamour, no drama, no surprises… It makes me wonder whether I should have gone to bed earlier and watch the highlights tomorrow…
Few nice moments but that’s about it, just nice: Natalie Portman’s speech, Colin’s Speech (though he has been better before), Melissa Leo cursing and droppping the “F” bomb at one point (hahaha), Christian Bale showing that he has got a heart and that nerd guy who got the Oscar for the short film who said “I should have got a haircut”.
On the whole a pretty forgettable show, with very forgettable hosts.
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