Yes, we have decided to live blog the Oscars.
Tune in in 20 minutes for an evening of snarky comments.
Kath is typing so all typos are her doing.
Kath: Christine Chenoweth is sooooo cute doing the red carpet.
8:26 4 minutes of commercials, and I bet none will be as good as the Super Bowl ones…oh well, now we wait.
8:28 OK the Bond commercial was pretty good.
8:30 OK here we go
8:31 TLJ laughed You lose.
8:33 Cell phone joke first one that doesn’t work
8:35 Oh My G-d I see him too!
8:38 Oh My G-d this the brilliant
8:41 You know Flight would have been 10 times better with sock puppets.
8:42 Let’s hope that Bruce Willis doesn’t come back from the future to stop JGL from doing this
8:46 OK this has been going on for 15 minutes. Enough all ready.
8:47 Please tell me they cleared that with Disney.
8:48 My guess Tommy Lee Jones for best supporting actor
8:50 Oh My God OK so much for my guesses tonight. Must be the stroke.
8:52 Somewhere Spike Jones is throwing a drink at the TV
8:56 Wow this is amazingly not funny.
8:57 Not getting any funnier
8:57 We saw all these and want Adam and the Dog to win
8:58 At least Caroline really likes it so it’s OK.(Paperman)
8:59 Come on Brave
8:59 Finally got one right. I was getting worried
9:04 I so want to see the Beast of the Southern Wild, entirely because of this kid.
9:05 Or as we call them one half of a San Diego Panel.
9:07 Cinematography my guess life of Pi
9:07 Bingo
9:08 No body cares get off the stage.
9:09 Well the avengers should win. Hobbit will
9:10 Or the Life of Pi what the hëll do I know?
9:11 Yeah well Life of Pi didn’t have the Hulk punch out Loki we know who the real winner is.
9:12 they played them off with the music from Jaws? When did this turn into Shark week?
9:17 Costume Snow White
9:18 Oh well didn’t see either
(:18 this woman looks like she would work on Anna Krininanna
9:18 I think Hobbit
9:20 Of course Le Miz
9:21 Well she is dressed like a Bond Girl
9:23 Let’s spend the next 5 minutes sayng who our favorite bond is
9:25 It is Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger, what more can I say?
9:27 She is 76 and she still got it
9:29 It has been an hour on ABC and no ads for the next OZ film. Someone screwed up
9:31 Actually there have been no ads for any movies. Interesting omission.
9:32 They were showing the shorts at SunRay Cinema
9:33 Have no opinion on this one.
9:35 Again no opinion
9:38 Well his films have become boring and formulaic but you can’t go for more authoritative sounding than Liam Neeson.
9:42 what really impresses me is that Seth McFarlane hasn’t done any funny voices
9:44 Searching for Sugarman! I would be astounded that it won if I had heard of any of these movies.
9:46 The Cast of Promethesus? I am so there. I still don’t know what was going on.
9:47 Seriously why are no movies advertising? Isn’t this your target audience? It’s like beer giving a pass on the Superbowl.
9:50 this is going to be Amore
9:50 There ya go
9:54 I still think Travolta is over rated as a musical performer.
9:55 Catherine Zeta Jones has gotten better. Starring in a Broadway musical did her some good.
9:58 By this point she has lost enough weight to make a whole other singer
10:00 I guess we shall hear the people sing
10:01 they are going for the original song?
10:02 Medley time
10:02 Holy Crap Eponine cleans up good
10:04 Wow!Now I want to go see Les Miz again…No I don’t just kidding.
10:05 There we go.
10:06 Finally an OZ commercial it only took an hour and a half.
10:09 Here we go with the awards that aren’t important enough for the actually show
10:11 Sound Mixing Les Miz
10:12 got it but it should have gone to Skyfall
10:14 Life of Pi
10:15 A tie? Zero Dark 30 and Skyfall
10:16 so Life of Pi lost twice
10:17 What is it with sound guys and long hair?
10:18 That was beautiful.
10:20 And now the names of all the people who are going to lose to Anne Hathaway
10:22 Obviously
10:25 they played off Anne Hathaway with the Godfather. That was an odd choice.
10:28 I have to say, aside from a few joke misfires, Seth McFarlan has been doing a good job. He has been putting the nay sayers to shame…as if they had any.
10:29 I hate to say it, but that sounds interesting.
10:32 Life of Pi?
10:33 Argo Won! OK.One of two movies I actually saw.
10:36 Apparently Adele can be stopped by bad sound balancing.
10:39 Well that was certainly impressive. Aside from Les Miz is there anything else up and why did they bother?
10:46 I don’t think a film should be up for both foreign and best picture. I mean the whole idea is so we don’t have to compete with them.
10:48 Les Miz is my guess
10:48 Kath was right she said Lincoln
10:53 yes let us support these nominees that we had a separate ceremony for
10;54 Oh wow the in memorium tribute. I can’t wait to see who they left out this year.
11:01 I’ll be dámņëd. Barbara herself.
11:03 Ðámņ she can still do a song
11:09 Which score of the film I can’t remember will win. I dunno sky fall.
11:10 Life of Pi, I’ll be dámņëd.Why is it when I am wrong it is always life of Pi?
11:11 they better move this along I am getting tired
11:16 Skyfall. There ya go. They deserved it.
11:18 Getting hard to think. Brain is freezing. If I fall asleep Kath will take over.
11:23 Argo won excellent
(Kath is taking over. Peter is fading)
11:25 Nice to give a nod to the man who did the getting the people out.
11:26 Caroline wants Moonrise Kingdom to win but Django won
11:27 Nice that he thanked the actors for saying his words.
11:32 Any bets on how late this is going to go?
11:33 Well they are looking good.
11:34 Good for Ang Lee.
11:40 Where is the dog?
11:43 well that is not who I expected. And she tripped on her dress. But good for her.
11:46 Of course it is Meryl Streep.
11:48 That was an Of Course Oscar. It was a powerful performance.
11:49 OK Daniel Day Lewis for the win. Best joke tonight.
11:51 Jack’s going to present best pic? Wow night of surprises.
11:52 And now it is topped by the First Lady. Wow.
11:56 ARGO! Good for it!
12:01 Kristen and Seth this should be good.
12:02 I am betting Seth wrote this. They are having fun.
12:04 I thought he did a good job and managed to make some people eat their words about how bad he was a going to be.-Kath
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Missed you during the Superbowl. Glad to see you back!
I think it would be funny if Captain Picard showed up on the bigscreen to say don’t listen to Kirk! (kinda like the Family Guy episode with time travel)
The Shatner stuff was amusing, and thankfully they didn’t have him sing. 🙂
Otherwise, not watching the remainder of the Oscars tonight, so glad to have you back ‘on duty’, PAD. 🙂
I thought Timothy Dalton was better than given credit for as Bond.
I have to agree-Kath
And I thought I was the only one who liked Dalton as Bond….
I also agree. Of course, Dalton had the advantage of coming after seven movies that proved Moore is less. (Moore has admitted several times that he doesn’t feel he’s a very good actor.)
In fact, I’ll take Lazenby over Moore any day.
Dalton’s great. Judging by acting ability alone, I think he might be the best of all the pre-Craig Bonds. When he delivers a one-liner, it just sounds really cool, rather than simply smug or snarky.
The Academy has requested that movie studios not advertise during the Oscars. Long-standing rule.
Learn something new every year
Maybe the movie ads are all on over at The Walking Dead, since the people who go to see the big CGI-driven movies like Oz and Jack the Giant Slayer are watching that and not the Oscars.
Props to Russell Crowe for coming on stage to sing given all the grief he has been getting.
Wait – what did we just see? The bear opened the envelope and read the winner. I thought no one but the accountants were supposed to know the results in advance.
Seth voicing the bear live, from off stage? Not like the bear’s “lips” had to perfectly match the text.
That could have been Seth doing the voice backstage
I wondered about that. The back-and-forth between Ted and Mark Wahlburg seemed awfully snappy if one assumed that the bear’s bit had been prerecorded.
In fact, it didn’t even have to be off-stage; just off-camera. That gives the live audience something to watch other than an empty stool.
McFarlane has a song nomination for Ted
Well, that felt bizarre.
Assume it goes 3.5 hours (the default), although Nicki Finke is claiming it’s at least 6 minutes over schedule.
The bitter pill is that Life of Pi walks off with the Oscar while Rhythm & Hues falls into bankruptcy. The VFX artists whose painstaking efforts brought that tiger and ocean to life lost their jobs.
Earlier today I participated in the “Piece of the Pi” protest a few blocks over along with 450+ other VFX artists. Hollywood’s been killing off VFX shops left and right, and we’re hoping to draw attention to the problem before it’s too late. The way things are going now, the Hulk in AVENGERS sequels will be portrayed by a sock puppet.
Jennifer-
Where are the jobs going? I have to say this is the first I have heard about this and it concerns me for many reasons.
Kath
Here’s a good article on the situation:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118066191/
I totally recommend finding and watching LOOKING FOR SUGAR MAN – not only does it highlight just how connected the world has become, and how much influence a person can unknowilngly have, but it’s an amazing story of a man who, no matter what life puts him through, knowing who and what he is inside.
“I don’t think a film should be up for both foreign and best picture. I mean the whole idea is so we don’t have to compete with them.”
Well, no, the whole idea is to recognize films from other countries that don’t necessarily get distributed here and therefore aren’t eligible for Best Picture. Amour just happened to be eligible for both (i.e. it got released here in 2012, and it was selected as Austria’s entry for the foreign category), and had enough support to get the dual nomination, which I say, good for it (even if I didn’t think much of the film).
Good to have you back, PAD. I was surprised quite a few times by the winners, but, overall, I enjoyed the Oscars. As for the people complaining about Seth, the Academy had to know his reputation before they hired him. I was expecting a lot more ‘edgy’ comedy from him, actually.
As an aside, while the Oscars may have had almost no commercials for OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, this movie has been featured in just about every commercial break on the Disney Channel (with the warning that some scenes may be too intense for younger viewers — for those who see no difference between PG and G, apparently).