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The Only Deserving Oscars

2010 Live Oscar Blog Post (Cont'd)

The Oscars about to begin!

ALRIGHT! They brought back the orchestra!

This is strange though...presenting the best actor/actress nominees at the very beginning...this makes this like...a play or some weird game show...This announcer is using a shitty mic. Peaking like a mofo.

WOOOO!!!!!!! NEIL PATRICK HARRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally brought class back to the Oscars. I love this. It's maybe a bit too classic, it's very 1920s Art Deco, classic cinema, but I love that kinda stuff...but we'll see how it functions for the rest of the show.

I love Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin is especially a classy choice for the Oscars.

This bit about Meryl Streep... "Over Rated"

*Trivia* "WHAT!? She didn't like The Jerk!?" what's the quote?

George Clooney doesn't seem very amused.

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon - Invictus

Woody Harleson - The Messenger

Christopher Plumer - The Last Station

Stanely Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Bastards

Winner

CHRISTOPH WALTZ

This is very well deserved. He was brilliant. He took on a very hard role, played it well, and kept it consistent. Just straight up good acting.

7:51 - What the hell is this Blind Side thing? Are they going to like...pitch all the best picture movies in between awards?

7:56 - wow...there are so many gimmicks this year for the Oscars, they are really desperate to gain viewers.

Best Animated Feature

Coraline

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Secret of Kells

The Princess and the Frog

Up

Best Animated Feature is:

UP

Do I have to explain why this won? Didn't think so.

8:00 - ew...Miley and Amanda Seyfried...UGLY!!!!!!!!!! Can someone please get Miley some braces?

Best Original Song

Almost There - The Princess and the Frog

Down in New Orleans - The Princess and the Frog

Loin de Paname - Paris 36

Take it All - Nine

The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart

Best Original Song:

The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart

Wait...did they just do a ton of thank yous, i thought this year they weren't supposed to do thank yous...

8:05 - District 9 was SOOOOOOOoooo awesome, I need to see it again, that movie was great. No Avatar, but it was amazing!

8:10 - I'm not feeling as opinionated this year...prolly cause this year's movies overall sucked real bad. Everyone kinda knows what's going to win and what's going to loose...

8:12 - WAIT! Are Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem dating?

Best Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Bastards

The Messenger

A Serious Man

Up

Best Original Screenplay Goes to:

The Hurt Locker

Ok, well...I might as well get this out now...This year there is a huge political battle between The Hurt Locker and Avatar...There are going to be a lot of political wins for The Hurt Locker...this'll be interesting. The Hurt Locker was a really fantastic movie, but it didn't go above and beyond the call of duty, Avatar did.

8:17 - Molly Ringwald is either really tall...or Mathew Broderick is really tiny...and why does Molly look really scared.

John Hughes Tribute

I didn't know he did so many of these movies...I mean I did...but I didn't. Here's to John Hughes, a man who took adolescent and treated them for what they were and what they were dealing with, rather than treating them like under developed people who aren't worth anything. He shined a light on teenagers that had never been shown before, and seems like it will never been shown again.

That was sweet, sincere and classy.

8:23 - Why did the cast of twilight not look very enthused about the John Hughes Tribute?

8:24 - So...I was under the impression that you could only be nominated for either best picture or best animated feature...are they bending the rules cause they screwed up this year and decided to nominated 10 movie for best picture durring the crappiest year for movies ever?

8:27 - "let's bring out these pretty actresses..." no but wait...Carrey Mulligan is ugly...at least with short hair she is.

8:30 - Are they about to introduce best live action short? Or are they just going to talk about the making of the short?

THANK YOU JOHN LACETER!!!!! "It's not about your equipment young film makers, it's about the telling of the story"

Best Animated Short

The Lady and the Reaper

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

French Roast

Logorama

A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Animated Short:

LOGORAMA

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see any of the shorts this year :(

Best Documentary Short

China's Unnatural Disaster

The last Campaign

The Last Truck

Music by Prudence

Rabbit a La Berlin

Best Documentary Short

Music by Prudence

This is really strange...are they doing ALL the short subject categories together? Very strange...

Best Live Action Short

The Door

Instead of Abracadabra

Kavi

Miracle Fish

The New Tenants

Best Live Action Short

The New Tenants

Once again...I wish I had seen all these...But I did see "Instead of Abracadabra" and boy am I glad that didn't win. That movie was like a foreign Napoleon Dynamite who did magic tricks...it was stupid...

8:38 - Ben Stiller is redonk...He is really funny. Damn, he went all out.

Best Make-Up

Il Divo

Star Trek

The Young Victoria

Best Make-Up

Star Trek

Wait...I mean...I guess I'm ok with this win...by why wasn't District 9 nominated? The make-up on that arm and what now was baller. But I guess there was more overall make-up in Star Trek...but man...none of these movies had anything that went above what make-up can already do...Like...wasn't it Benjamin Button last year?

8:44 - A Serious Man better not win. SWEET! Finally! A Comercial, I need a pee break!!!!

8:48 - MMmmmmmmm I love Rachel McAdams

Best Adapted Screenplay

Up in the Air

Precious

In the Loop

An Education

District 9

The Winner is:

Precious

Well...I'm not familiar with the source material of any of these except for District 9...so maybe the writer of Precious did an extremely brilliant job...but I feel like An Education was a better script. PS. Why is Tyler Perry crying? Someone needs to put Tyler Perry in check.

Now that no one can give thank yous on stage, the writers are going to have the best speeches haha.

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruiz

Vera Farmiga

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Anna Kendrick

Mo'Nique

Best Supporting Actress

Mo'Nique

Totally deserved this, the only one to really push themselves in a role and be extremely real.

Mo'Nique...about the performance and not the politics...yeah...it's about your performance...but don't try to tell me anything Precious wins has absolutely nothing to do with politics...cause everyone was apart of that movie for politics...HA! Sam Jackson just made the best face in response to her speech.

Best Art Direction

Avatar

Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria

Best Art Direction

AVATAR

THANK GOD!!!! If this hadn't won, I'd have to shoot someone.

And the Avatar Tally begins at 1 for 1

Best Costume Design

Bright Star

Coco Before Channel

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

The Young Victoria

Figures, I was waiting for that movie to finally win something, the period piece usually wins this. "I already have two of these" damn...what a jerk...

9:19 - Why is the cast of Twilight doing the Horror Tribute...their movie isn't horror at all...

Best Sound Editing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Star Trek

Up

Best Sound Editing

The Hurt Locker

I think i'm ok with this....but definitely not with the next one.

Best Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers

Best Sound Mixing

The Hurt Locker

Dude...Avatar had to make up SOOOooooo many different sounds for so many different things and make it work and make you believe it...how did it not win

Avatar count 1 for 3... :(

Best Cinematography

Avatar

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

The White Ribbon

Best Cinematography

AVATAR

FUCK YEAH!!!!!! The art of cinematography had to be changed for this movie, he is an innovator and deserves this award. None of the other movies were anything more than was cinematography is, Avatar invented a new form of cinematography.

Avatar 2 for 5

In Memoriam

Always beautiful, unfortunately this years will be extremely long and tragic. The Film industry will miss all of you.

Wow...I didn't know Roy Disney Died...

huh...wait...that was actually extremely short...it's usually much much longer...didn't a boat load of people die this year?

9:45 - Sam Worthington needs his big ass hipster glasses to see the prompter.

What the hell is with this crazy interpritive dance shit? It's like America's Best Dance Crew does the Oscars...Shouldn't we be watching musicians playing music...not dancers dancing to music...i thought the Oscar was for Best Score not best dance adaptation...

Best Original Score

Sherlock Holmes

The Hurt Locker

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Up

Avatar

Best Score:

UP

Ugh...really? that don't make no sense...it just doesn't...simple, used sounds...nothing special...This is like the Oscars of mediocrity...

Best Visual Effects

Ok if Avatar doesn't win...the world is retarded and i've lost all hope.

Avatar

District 9

Star Trek

Best Visual Effects

Avatar

Alright, the world still makes sense. This was a no brainer.

Best Documentary Feature

Berma VJ

The Cove

Food, Inc.

The Most Dangerous Man in America

Which Way Home

Best Documentary Feature

The Cove

...Didn't see any of these...

10:05 - Ugh, Tyler Perry can crawl into a hole and die...why is he presenting Editing? That's stupid...he makes trash, probably doesn't know anything about editing...

Best Editing

Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Precious

Best Editing

The Hurt Locker

I'm actually ok with this one, the editing was pretty slick. Compared to the other ones, they didn't do anything new or special.

10:14 - What is the deal with this lampshade backdrop...it's kind of awkward...Quentin is a funny(weird) presenter

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami

The Milk of Sorrow

A Prophet

The Secret in their Eyes

The White Ribbon

Best Foreign Language Film

The Secret in their Eyes

Why didn't I know about any of these movies???

10:19 - man...they are really plowing through the Oscars this year.

10:26 - I can't remember...was the presentation of the actor nominees last year huge pats on the back of nominees? SELF INDULGENCE! CLAP CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP!

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges

George Clooney

Colin Firth

Morgan Freeman

Jeremy Renner

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges

What have we learned here...from the last two oscars...play a washed up performer of sorts, have some deep rooted personal issue, and decide to turn your life around and make a come back and win an oscar...

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock

Helen Mirren

Carey Mulligan

Gabourey Sidibe

Meryl Streep

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock

Ok...so I knew this was coming...but I didn't believe it...I still don't believe it...it makes me wanna see it...but Adam says this doesn't mean I need to see this movie...this is crazy.

Best Director

James Cameron

Kathryn Bigelow

Quentin Tarentino

Lee Daniels

Jason Reitman

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow

Saw it coming...once again...POLITICAL OSCARS! But I have no problem with her getting it, so long as Avatar gets best picture...we'll find out shortly...

BEST PICTURE

THE HURT LOCKER

Fuck that! ok, time for a quick rant. Hurt Locker, really good movie, one of the best this year. The ending did suck tho. HOWEVER! It was just a good movie. It wasn't an amazing movie, it wasn't a mind blowing movie, it was just a good movie. It did exactly what a good movie should do. It didn't do anything special, which Avatar actually did. Yes...the movie had it's flaws, but from a producers stand point, and for pioneering something new...it was flawless and executed brilliantly to sound of over $2billion. Avatar created something new and unique and brought excitement back to cinema, the Hurt Locker made me feel nothing more than the feeling of watching a good movie...nothing more...nothing less...

The 2010 Oscars were the weirdest things I have ever seen. This shall be known as:

The Oscars of Mediocrity.

Adam's OSCAR PICKS!

Oscar Picks!

OHHHH SNAP! It's been awhile since we've posted anything. Will we pick it back up? I hope so. But that's neither here nor there.

After a lackluster 2009 year at the movies, it's time for THE ACADEMY AWARDS! I'm going to make my picks. Can you out-pick me? We will certainly see.

* denotes not having seen most of the choose
** denotes a total crapshoot

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ACTING CATEGORIES
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Supporting Actress - MO'NIQUE

Supporting Actor - CHRISTOPH WALTZ

Leading Actor - JEFF BRIDGES

Leading Actress - SANDRA BULLOCK

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PICTURE CATEGORIES
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Animated Short - La Drama y la Muerte**

Documentary Short - The Last Truck**

Live Action Short - Kavi

Documentary Picture -

Animated Feature - Up

Foreign Language - The White Ribbon

Best Picture - AVATAR

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PRE-PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
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Art Direction - Avatar

Original Screenplay - THE HURT LOCKER

Adapted Screenplay - UP IN THE AIR

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PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
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Costume Design - NINE

Make Up - STAR TREK

Cinematography - AVATAR

Best Director - JAMES CAMERON

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POST-PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
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Sound Editing - THE HURT LOCKER

Sound Mixing - INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

Original Song - THE WEARY KIND

Visual Effects - AVATAR

Original Score - AVATAR

Editing - AVATAR

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Can you tell I loved Avatar? I'll probably write a post about The Hurt Locker / Avatar Debate.

Enjoy.

- Adam Santiago

2010 Live Oscar Blog Post

As a personal request, I'm going to attempt to do another live blog post documenting the 82nd Annual Academy Awards...this should be interesting...

The blog post will officially begin at 7:30 central time.

The Red Carpet (Part 1 6PM)

So...I don't know how everyone felt...but the first section of the Red Carpet coverage was really lame...the guy they have covering the floor is trying too hard, and all the other people keep talking about what great coverage they have...trying to hide the fact that they have GIANT TENTS covering the action and they're just disappointed they can't see anything.

Oh Barbara

6:11 - Monique doesn't shave her legs, tried once...didn't like it...how interesting. What an intensely personal interview. Barbara is known for going for the hard hitting questions...but now she's prolly like, "Fuck it, this is my last Oscar broadcast, I'll do what ever I want."

6:13 - I really hope I can make it through this blog post...let alone the Oscars...I'm ridiculously exhausted.

**Side Note - Follow @JayArr47 on twitter and tell him how my blog is better than him being obnoxious on twitter, and that I'll destroy him if he continues.**

6:15 - Barbara Walters, ala @AmandaSophiaE "I AM SICK OF IT!" Barbara does have amazing poise for being as old as she is and for someone who's been in the business as long as she has been. It's pretty impressive.

6:21 - Sneak peak on Sandra Bullocks interview, she admits that she was just as surprised as the rest of the world when she got nominated for an Oscar, haha. Cheers to knowing your place int he world. Speaking of Sandra Bullock and seeming kinda cool, check out her Razzie acceptance speech -

6:25 - HAHA! Barbara interview the Ninja Turtles, AMAZING!!!!!

6:39 - I never realized Harrison Ford had his left ear pierced.

6:45 - 2010, the year for terrible movies and stereotypical Oscar winning type movies, ie, The Blind Side, or Crazy Heart...but both Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock seem to be the favorites...i don't get it...I really don't wanna see either of those movies...

6:53 - "CUT TAPE! CUT TAPE! CUT TAPE!" Barbara came back real quick with a one word answer. Don't try to stump the master stumper, it's not gonna happen Sandra.

6:58 - Alright...Imma brb...I need to grab some energy drinks so I can stay awake for the Oscars...

Red Carpet (Part 2)

7:12 - haha, what the hell was up with Morgan Freeman? He was like...wearing Jack Nicholson Shades...acting way too laid back and almost spoke in Jive, chewing gum...that was weird...

7:15 - Oh SNAP! Check out the spray tan on Sarah Jessica Parker...that is so nasty...

7:16 - Cameron Diaz looks like a giant.

7:17 - Wake me up when the oscars start...I'm exhausted...