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
I wish I had time to watch movies...<sigh>
I feel best actor should have gone to Troy McClure, for his frighteningly unhinged performance in The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
I'm glad to see Hugo take home a few Oscars. That movie was surprisingly great. Other than that and The Artist, there were a lot of bullshit nominations. Drive is the best picture of the year.
@Batty said:
No it isn't, A Separation is.
@Black_Rose: I have not seen this yet, added to my Netflix queue just now. Thanks!
I apologise if this has been mentioned, because I don't want to read through 85 comments to check, but in the Best Picture section, The Artist links to The Descendants, and The Descendants links to Extremely Loud. Also I got 6/7 for my predictions this year, damn Meryl Streep!
Rooney got robbed.
@Artie said:
If that's not sarcasm, you're crazy. Woody Allen always win for best screenplay. And there was too much foreshadowing done by the show not to see Meryl's third Oscar coming.
@LittlemanBodie said:
No I am not trolling. It just looks like crap Oscar bait. Tell me why its not.
@flacracker: I can't say either way because I haven't seen it. But I do know to say that a movie is trash because it's in black and white or that it's a silent film is pretty ridiculous. A lot of people seemed to enjoy it and hey, a lot of people enjoy the twilight films and those are pretty fucking horrible. But I watched the first one before I formed my opinion. I just find it annoying when people have such strong reactions to shit they've never experienced.
@LittlemanBodie: It just seems like a pretentious top hat and monocle wearing film.
@MooseyMcMan said:
Yep. Weta just steps it up with every film they do. Avatar, Tintin then Planet of the Apes they just bring so much emotion to these computer generated models, looking forward toThe Hobbit and Avatar 2 as im not ashamed to say I loved the first movie, im a sucker for special effects.