Hope you guys had a good time with the Oscars live-stream/chat/reaction thing! I'll update this post with the winners when I get home in a bit, but in the meantime, if you want to react to the winners, this is the place to do it. Hugo wound up winning most of the technical awards, but The Artist was the big winner, taking home Best Director, Actor, Screenplay, and, of course, Best Picture for the night. Well-deserved awards for the most part, and we'll have plenty of reactions to them on the podcast tomorrow. Again, I'll edit this post tonight when I get home, but if you still feel like posting your reactions, do so here!
Best Picture
- WINNER: The Artist — Thomas Langmann
- The Descendants
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- The Help
- Hugo
- Midnight in Paris
- Moneyball
- The Tree of Life
- War Horse
Best Directing
- Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
- WINNER: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
- Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
- Alexander Payne, The Descendants
- Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Actor
- Demián Bichir, A Better Life
- George Clooney, The Descendants
- WINNER: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
- Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Best Actress
- Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
- Viola Davis, The Help
- Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- WINNER: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
- Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
- Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
- Jonah Hill, Moneyball
- Nick Nolte, Warrior
- WINNER: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
- Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
- Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
- Jessica Chastain, The Help
- Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
- Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
- WINNER: Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Adapted Screenplay
- WINNER: The Descendants — Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash
- Hugo
- The Ides of March
- Moneyball
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Original Screenplay
- The Artist
- Bridesmaids
- Margin Call
- WINNER: Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
- A Separation
Best Animated Feature
- A Cat in Paris
- Chico & Rita
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Puss in Boots
- WINNER: Rango — Gore Verbinski
Best Documentary Feature
- Hell and Back Again
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
- Pina
- WINNER: Undefeated — Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin, and Rich Middlemas
Best Foreign Language Film
- Bullhead (Belgium)
- Footnote (Israel)
- In Darkness (Poland)
- Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
- WINNER: A Separation (Iran) — Asghar Farhadi
Best Cinematography
- The Artist
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- WINNER: Hugo — Robert Richardson
- The Tree of Life
- War Horse
Best Film Editing
- The Artist
- The Descendants
- WINNER: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
- Hugo
- Moneyball
Best Art Direction
- The Artist
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- WINNER: Hugo — Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
- Midnight in Paris
- War Horse
Best Costume Design
- Anonymous
- WINNER: The Artist — Mark Bridges
- Hugo
- Jane Eyre
- W.E.
Best Makeup
- Albert Nobbs
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- WINNER: The Iron Lady — Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Best Original Score
- The Adventures of Tintin
- WINNER: The Artist — Ludovic Bource
- Hugo
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- War Horse
Best Original Song
- WINNER: “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets — Bret McKenzie
- “Real in Rio,” Rio
Best Sound Mixing
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- WINNER: Hugo — Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
- Moneyball
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- War Horse
Best Sound Editing
- Drive
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- WINNER: Hugo — Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- War Horse
Best Visual Effects
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- WINNER: Hugo — Robert Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, Alex Henning
- Real Steel
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Best Animated Short Film
- Dimanche/Sunday
- WINNER: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore — William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
- La Luna
- A Morning Stroll
- Wild Life
Best Documentary Short Subject
- The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
- God Is the Bigger Elvis
- Incident in New Baghdad
- WINNER: Saving Face — Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Best Live-Action Short Film
- Pentecost
- Raju
- WINNER: The Shore — Terry George and Oorlagh George
- Time Freak
- Tuba Atlantic
The Live Show made the Oscars so much better- I don't know if I could of made it through some of the stupid bits otherwise. The worse being the Wizard of Oz focus group- way to go making fun the audiences that go and see movies- and pointing out why the Academy is needed.
I thought that best picture came down to "The Tree of Life" or "The Artist" because both couldn't be told as well in any other medium. And while "Tree of Life" was beautiful, I felt it lacked cohesiveness and that "The Artist" was the most deserving.
Heh, I slept through the whole thing. Not that I regret missing it. Still, happy to see Rango and the Muppets get an award. Oh, and props to Woody Allen, too. I am a huge fan of his earlier work, so I guess I'll have to breakdown and see this newer one.
Under best picture, The Artist and The Descendants have links to different films.
The lack of Drive, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo not being up for Best Picture, made this pretty uninteresting!
Good for Rango, reminds me of classic Nick toons like Ren & Stimpy, Rocko, Angry Beavers that had an edge to them vs. Disney's sissy mixed with 80s pop culture referential humor. (And good on Chris Rock for mocking that bullshit!)
For the clips they showed of each acting nominee, Streep's clip seemed the best "acted". Will never see either the Help or Iron Lady, likely, but clearly she is the more talented actress (possibly the best ever) so a YOURE GETTING OLD oscar is a lot less unwelcome than a YOURE BLACK HERES AN AWARD TO DISTRACT THAT THIS INDUSTRY IS ALMOST ENTIRELY UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WHITE MEN WHO OCCASIONALLY BUTT RAPE UNCONSCIOUS PRETEENS
;-)
@Ferros said:
Indeed! And Dean from Community, too!
So Zachary Levi gets to sing as the Oscars but Jason Segel doesn't? That is a travesty. Still, good on Rango and Bret McKenzie for winning. He can now always hold that over Jermaine. Still, overall, this really wasn't that good of a year for movies. Here's hoping 2012 is better.
Would have watched it with y'all, but being in the UK means time was against me. The winners are pretty snore-tastic and predictable, but I'm surprised Clooney didn't win though, after being turned down twice, thought the Academy might gift him a 'Best Actor' gong.
@boocreepyfootdoctor said:
Thank you, for a moment I thought I was the only one who noticed it.
I cant wait for the reference in the show.
FYI The links in Best Picture are incorrect. The Artist links to Descendants and Descendants to Extremely Close. :)
How was Senna not nominated for Best Documentary? How do these things work?
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The Artist just looks stupid. A silent film. Black and white. There is a reason no movies are made like that anymore. I can just see what the Oscar people think: "They show their emotions and what they are thinking so well without speaking a word." "None of you regular movie goers would appreciate the genius of this film" Hey its black and white, it must be amazing. The people that chose the Oscars are just a bunch of movie hipsters.
@flacracker: You trollin right? Yeah you trollin. Ha, almost had me there for a second.
@LiquidSwords: Oh man, how did I miss that? Pure gold
The greatest moment for me was when they announced Meryl Streep as winning Best Actress. I immediately shouted, "Oh, great. Not her again!" right before she said, "As I came up to the stage I could feel half of America going 'Oh, not her again.'"
It was kind of freaky.