Did anybody watch the Red Carpet? Clooney was a total class-act, he actually went in behind where all the fans were herded behind a big chainlink fence, and walked along the fence, touching fingers, posing for photos and signing autographs. I didn't see anyone else do this.

I was wondering, thanks for clearing that up. It seemed odd.

Re: Clooney. Judging from the body language all night, I'm guessing that he and the gf were fighting. There was definately some tension between them from the red carpet on.

I thought the show was OK. I didn't like the dancing part - does anyone but the composer really care about "Best Original Score?" I didn't think so. And it seemed to go on foreeeeever. I also thought the 5 people talking about the Best Actor/Actress Nominees was very strange. Like it was their funeral or something. Whoever thought of that should be fired. No wonder it went 40 minutes long.

Neil Patrick Harris should really just host everything. He's all kinds of awesome.

I care about Best Original Score. I care about it more than song actually.

would have put large amounts of money that by 2 oclock this afternoon aggie would have written and posted a song about kathryn bigelow to the tune of just a gigolo.
tbh, i'm very disappointed.

i lol'd when the black dude who won was overcome with emotion and had trouble onstage and then steve martin said he wrote the speech

Can't say that I followed the Oscars with much interest this year. I'm glad Jeff Bridges finally won one (I know he was nominated at least one other time, for "Starman"). Is the chick who won for Best Director the same one who directed that Kiefer Sutherland vampire movie of the late 1980's? All I can say is she must have been a hottie in her younger days.

I very rarely do "topics of the moment" song parodies. Couldn't really stretch that topic out through the length of that song I think.



His other good line was at the end when he said the ceremony was getting so long, "Avatar" took place in the past now.

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

So, thanks to The Hurt Locker winning best picture, Ralph Fiennes has now acted in three Best Picture winners (Schindler's List, The English Patient and The Hurt Locker).

Off the top of my head, Jack Nicholson's also been in three (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and The Departed).

Anyone know if anyone else has more?

Edit: Dustin Hoffman's also had three it seems (Midnight Cowboy, Kramer vs Kramer, Rain Main)

Not sure why I'm caring about this... must be one of those things I need to know...

I think the stone-face Clooney thing was a bit that just didn't translate well. Jack Nicholson would do the same thing sometimes.

I was really glad that Michael Giacchino won Best Original Score, one of the most deserving Oscars of the night in my opinion. His work on LOST is consistently awesome.

Nothing says "Oscar Clip" quite like the Precious screenplay excerpt wherein she steals a bucket of chicken. Way to pull the most heinous clip out of context, folks.

that part is hilarious though, and even more so out of context. one of the highlights of the show if you ask me.

clark gable
meryl streep
sir john gielgud (around the world in 80, chariots, ghandi)
morgan freeman

talia shire for rocky and two godfathers (shouldn't count due to sequel)
john cazale similarly for deer hunter and two godfathers

i know he has been discussed round these parts before but yea, john cazale qualifies. every movie he was in got a nod for best picture and three of em won.

Shirley MacLaine, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman all appeared in 3. Franklyn Farnum was in six.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor...y_Award_winners

point set match mitchell

well, at least i got all the major ones save maclaine

Bess Flowers appeared in 22 films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition to appearing in the five Best Picture winners It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It With You (1938), All About Eve (1950), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Around the World in 80 Days (1956, Flowers also appeared in the following seventeen Best Picture nominees: Anthony Adverse (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), In Old Chicago (1937), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), Love Affair (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Razor's Edge (1946), Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

jesus bess flowers

i see redford had two as actor and one as director as well

bess flowers was in high demand as "queen of the extras" and was in 700 movies, usually uncredited

Credible? Like, realistic? Cuz that was not what I felt he was going for. I think he cast/directed the European and American actors as if they were in two different films for a reason. The incongruity seemed purposeful to me.

Don't get into with Montana. It wont end well.

Heh. Who are the 2 guys sitting to Kimmel's right?

No, like "good actor". That doesn't have anything to do with the incongruity.

Odd that Montana is complaining about Brad Pitt's acting when the "acting" in Avatar was completely and utterly wooden.

John Krasinski (The Office)
Josh Hartnett

Not Hartnett--the black guy who looked exactly like Kimmel. Thanks.

Cheers mate - couldn't find the Wiki entry for some reason.

taye diggs

I would disagree with most of that. The acting was competent and in some cases excellent (Weaver, the female native, Corporate boss). There certainly wasn't any performance as bad as Pitt in IB.

It was some damned fine comedic relief.

I certainly got a tiny kick out of predicting almost every Oscar. Only really flubbed on best picture. I though they would give it to Cameron to make up fpr alimony.

And "Boo-yah" to Bigelow for bringing one home for the ladies. Shit, ever since I saw "Point Break", I knew she had it in her. Not saying that "Point Break" is a masterpiece, more like marvelling at how well the action and frankly the movie, is directed. I know that my pseudo-sexist side was originally a little shocked when I found out that it was directed by a woman.

Nice to see that the times are changing. Hey, just for fun, see how many female film directors you can name. Then see how many black directors you can name.

Seriously-- do you think Spike Lee will ever get his due? It would be a fucking bullshit travesty (IMO) if he's not the first African American director to win the Oscar.

The only way Spike Lee could get his due is with a time machine, so maybe he could get his Oscar for Do the Right Thing or 25th Hour.

otm.

Wow, yeah. Never really thought of that, but I can't name too many of either.

It's like a sporcle quiz!

Let's see (Without using Google)
-Sofia Coppola (Always figured she would be the first female to win)
-Catherine Brillat. Is it Catherine? The one with all the nudity in her films and junk that's always on IFC.
-Jane Campion
-Jodie Foster
-There's that french director everybody loves but who's movies I've never seen
-Sherri Springer Berman (co-directed American Splendor
-Anna Boden (Is that her name, the one who co-directs with Ryan Fleck)
-Mira Nair (She's a woman...right?)


-Hughes Brothers
-Forest Whitaker
-Tyler Perry
-Lee Daniels...

That's all I got...sad.

claire denis?
idk, i rarely remember male directors names save for a handful. anyway, if you keep it mainstream you'll realize how easy it is to come up with a good handful
barbara streisand
penny marshall
nora ephron
penelope spheeris (sp?)
betty thomas
nancy meyers
mira nair
sofia coppolla
amy heckerling
mary harron
valerie heris or something like that
julie taymor
jane campion
and a slew of others i'm just not tappin into right now.

hollywood isn't sexist it's just you!

Considering these are 10 years apart, I'm not sure why he couldn't make another masterpiece.

^exactly. nearly 1 years apart. and he's only done like 2-3 features since 25th hour, right? unlikely that it will happen (or that he directs another flick as good as those two), but maybe they'll pull a scorscese on him for one of his good later works.