2008 80th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) -- LIVE THREAD

tv: ABC network ^ | 2-24-2008

[lainie]

It's an Oscar Party!

Warning: might contain snark and/or discussions about fashion.

Best Picture:
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

Best Actor:
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney, "The Savages"
Ellen Page, "Juno"

Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

Best Director:
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Jason Reitman, "Juno"
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

Best Animated Feature:
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille"
"Surf's Up"

Best Documentary Feature:
"No End in Sight"
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"Sicko"
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
"War/Dance"

[Borges]

Wings was the first film they showed.

[Cheapskate]

The only thing that bugged me was, the guy with the bad leg was getting around WAY TOO QUICK!

[Maven]

Does anyone know the name of the second piece of music that played over the Best Picture montage?

[marajade]

I love Russell Crowe. I just captured Gladiator in HD on my TIVO last night. Great movie.

[bd476]

She might come by it naturally. She's listed on Baronage UK as being Scottish blue blood with her family tracing back to the 9th century in Swinton, in the borderlands of Scotland. She attended day school in London, boarding school with Princess Diana and Cambridge University.

[lainie]

Not really. A montage of Best Pictures, and JS played a Wii for a few minutes. And there’s something slippery on the floor, on which Colin Farrell nearly slipped and fell.

[television is just wrong]

I think he is wonderful as well. bit tempermental, but that kind of goes with the territor, i guess.

[maggief]

I see Stewart is still killing ‘em.

Nicole looks regal.

[Ciexyz]

For those who want to know more about the life of Edith Piaf (featured in "La Vie en Rose"), try to get hold of the French language film "Edith et Marcel", made approx. 1988.

[lainie]

Yeah, as Simon Cowell would say, she’s looking a bit haunted. Nicole Kidman, too. They’re so pasty.

[television is just wrong]

she did well to get away from cruise too.

[maggief]

And there’s something slippery on the floor, on which Colin Farrell nearly slipped and fell.

Dayum ... would have hated to have missed that. ;)

[Floratina]

Hey Nicole is there after all? She must’ve been in the ladies room when Stewart did that baby joke.

[lainie]

Yes.. at least L.A. County. I’m in the high desert.

[bd476]

Thanks! I will definitely try to find that film.

[Ryzaroo]

Can anyone tell me what was the name of the instrumental music that was played during the oscars last 79 movies montage? Or at least what movie it was in?

[lainie]

He got to the mic and made a comment about someone needing to clean that up. heh

[Taffini]

>>>are the hairdressers on strike or something

Those are my “I’m cleaning the garage and I need a coke so I ran up to Kroger and prayed I wouldn’t run into any of my old boyfriends” hair do

[lainie]

I’ll have to go back and listen after the show. I didn’t recognize it the first time around.

[AnnGora]

ok, they are fixing to cut off the old guy...