OSCAR TIME IS HERE! and so is my liveblog! I'm on British time, so apologies if that gets confusing!
11.08pm: Montage of British acheivement at the Oscars. Awesome.
11.16pm: Non-famous people start to arrive on the red carpet. I eat a mini muffin to pass the boredom.
11.18pm: Another muffin during the advert break. Delicious
11.21pm: Scary Asian lady stares over the shoulder of James McAvoy
11.38pm: Maggie Gyllenhaal admits to wearing 'giant pants' under her dress
11.40pm: A montage about Dame Judi Dench. Yawn
11.47pm: Cameron Diaz looks pretty hot but, not sure about the dress though..
11.50pm: Penelope Cruz...meh.
11.52pm: Jada Pinkett Smith looks less like a man than usual
11.53pm: Jessica Beil...WOW!
11.57pm: Emily Blunt looks as if she is wearing make up on every part of her body..and there is something up with her teeth too...oh wait, she's British.
12.00am: Jennifer Lopez and corpse husband appear on the scene
12.01am: Corpse husband is becoming frequently distracted.
12.02am: Jodie Foster asks 'who is still awake in the UK?' WE ARE WE ARE!
12.03am: Helen Mirren is a hottie and I'm not ashamed to say it
12.07am: Penelope Cruz may be wearing a dead ostrich
12.08pm: Leonardo DiCaprio may have mistaken olive oil for a hair product
12.25am: Will Smith is so ooold! Where oh where have the Fresh Prince days gone?
12.16am: Jennifer Hudson looks like 'they are just about to pop her in the oven with that dress' according to my mother. Whatever that means.
12.21am: Jessica Beil has M&Ms in her purse. I love her even more now.
12.23am: Cate Blanchett looks like a super-sexy fembot from the future. Wait...what?
12.29am: ugh, the lame half hour interlude where film critics you have never heard of speak total rubbish. Time for some more snacks.
12.32am: Ooh popcorn and flapjacks.
12.48am: I swear to god Dame Judi Dench could just take a shit on camera and they would nominate her for an Oscar, and this year she couldnt even be bothered to come! Knee operation, Shnee operation.
12.50am: Wait, shnee?
12.58am: The ceremony is about to start, and I am about to eat a giant baked potato..so there may be a lapse in coverage as I enjoy the cripy, buttery goodness.
1.02am: Nicole Kidman or little red riding ass?
1.21am: I love Ryan Gosling, solely for the fact that he brings his sister and mother to the ceremony and then says he's 'Doing it like snoop'. What a pimp. Well, not really.
1.30am: YAY ITS STARTED!
1.31am: Love the opening montage! love it!
1.33am: OK, its getting old now!
1.35am: Ok enough already, seriously, enough.
1.37am: Ellen? A velvet suit? Really?
1.39am: Ellen's opening monolgue: Perfect.
1.43am: Excellent Al Gore joke.
1.44am: I love the gospel Choir YES!
1.45am: Best Art Direction fgoes to 'Pan's Labrynth' YES! I WAS RIGHT! Also, Nicole Kidman you aren't supposed to say 'the winner is anymore'
1.45am: AMAZING SONG! I love Will Ferrel but hate Jack Black. Thats just life.
1.57am: Acheivement in makup goes to 'Pan's Labrynth@
2.01am: Best Animated Short goes to 'The Danish Poet'
2.04am: BEST LIVE ACTIONS SHORT GOES TO WEST BANK STORY!!!!! YES YES YES! AND THEY MENTIONED ASHLEYS NAME!!! GO ASHLEY!!!
2.14am: Best sound editing goes to Letters from Iwo Jima
2.18am: Best sound mixing goes to Dreamgirls
2.21am: Best supporting actor goes to Alan Arkin
2.31am: Jesus, just cut out the musical interludes instead of cutting people off mid-speech, wouldnt that be a better idea?
2.45am: Best Animated Feature goes to Happy Feet, the winner of the award, oddly enough looks remarkably like a penguin
2.50am: Best Adapted Screenplay goes to The Departed
3.00am: Best Costume Design goes to Marie Antoinette
3.05am: Tom Cruise is clearly wearing a girdle, you know he gorges his ass on twinkies...and that isn't a euphamism.
3.10am: YOU GUYS RULE! This post has already had nearly 6000 views in the past few hours, hey, I might not be Perez Hilton, but thats good enough for me!
3.12am: Does Gwenyth look hot or not? I just can't decide!
3.14am: Best Cinematography goes to Pan's Labrynth...RIGHT AGAIN! YESS!
3.20am: Best Visual Effects goes to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
3.30am: Best Foreign Language Feature goes to The Lives of Others (Germany)
3.35am: Best Supporting Actress goes to Jennifer Hudson
3.44am: Best Documentary Short Subject goes to The Blood of Yingzhou District
3.46am: Best Documentary Feature goes to An Inconvenient Truth
4.07am: Best Original Score goes to Babel
4.12am: Best Original Screenplay goes to Little Miss Sunshine! YAY!
4.18am: 7000 VIEWS! HOORAY HOORAY!Thanks everyone who is reading!
4.30am: Best Original Song goes to Melissa Etheridge (An Inconvenient Truth)
4.43am: Best Film Editing goes to The Departed
4.45am: I hate it when they play the montage of people who have died, it almost makes me want to cry. I said ALMOST. I just have something in my eye.
4.53am: Best Actress in a leading role goes to Helen Mirren. I love her.
5.01am: Best Actor in a leading role goes to Forest Whittaker
5.08am: Best Director goes to Martin Scorcese! Finally!
5.15am: Best Motion Picture of the year goes to THE DEPARTED..A movie which I watched on a plane, and gasped so loud that I woke the woman next to me up from her slumber. It was worth it.
5.17am: Waaah the show is over for another year, and so is my Oscar liveblog. I hope that all of you out there who read it enjoyed it. I will be posting loads of Oscar photos tomorrow so be sure to come back. For now however I am off for my 2 hours of sleep. Goodnight, and thanks to the 7500 of you who followed the Oscars along with me!
Alexx
