Oh The Oscars…

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By Nads | Monday, February 28, 2011 | 1:29 am | 11 Comments
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Last night’s telecast was probably one of the worst Academy Awards I’ve ever seen. I can’t put all the blame on the hosts, although James Franco and Anne Hathaway were kind of a disappointment, but rather I blame the pacing. It was just So.Damn.Long! It didn’t pick up until the last 20 minutes. The whole show was a FAT snoozefest. ZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzz

The positive and memorable:

-I liked the Inception opening with Alec Baldwin. I thought it was clever, and funny. The opening monologue with Anne’s mom…not so much (joke fell flat). However, Jame’s grandma was so f’n cute I couldn’t stand it. I just love old people.

-James Franco in drag

-James Franco’s Charlie Sheen joke was amazing!

-Anne’s flub, “Flub! Drink at home! Sorry.”

- One of the highlights of the night for me was seeing Kirk Douglas get up there. I know it was painful for some people to watch, but I admire his courage. He was so cute, and funny…simply awesome.

-Billy Crystal on stage, he’s a true pro. Showed Anne and James how it’s done in 90 seconds. He needs to get back on that stage and host it next year.

The negative?

-I had high hopes for Anne and James, but did anyone give James the memo that he was HOSTING the Academy Awards??? He seemed so disinterested. I felt bad for Anne…she kept the energy up the whole time like a Toro from Bring It On, but what she needed was some Compton Clover mojo–no matter how hard she cheered, James wasn’t playing ball.

-What was up with James? I normally LOVE him, but he looked like he was coming down off a space cake high. I’m just disappointed…

-Justin Timberlake on stage making fun of Kirk Douglas. Boooooo.

The good news is that the awards show can only go up from here next year.

Anyway, here are the winners:

BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
WINNER: The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone


BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
WINNER: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours


BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
WINNER: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine


BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
WINNER: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter


BEST SONG
“Coming Home,” Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light,” Tangled, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
“If I Rise,” 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong
WINNER: “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman


BEST EDITING
127 Hours, Jon Harris
Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter, Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
WINNER: The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
WINNER: Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
WINNER: Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley

 

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Confession, Tanel Toom
The Crush, Michael Creagh
WINNER: God of Love, Luke Matheny
Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name (Nominees TBD)
Poster Girl (Nominees (TBD)
WINNER: Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lenno

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres

 

BEST MAKEUP
Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
WINNER: The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey


BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger

 

BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER: Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Inception, Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
WINNER: The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
WINNER: In a Better World (Denmark)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Biutiful (Mexico)

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year, written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; 
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
WINNER: The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
WINNER: The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit, written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

 

BEST ANIMATED FILM
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
WINNER: Toy Story 3


BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe
WINNER: The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
WINNER: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
WINNER: Inception, Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins


BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh



About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

11 Comments

  1. 1
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 8:15 am

    Franco wasn’t coming down from that space cake high, I think he just kept on eating them. Plus, he was posting photos and videos from the show and clearly didn’t seem to care about hosting.

    But I won’t blame Anne for any of it. Like you said, her energy never waned, she tried to engage Stony, she was game, and she changed outfits, hair AND NAIL POLISH, seven times. He was the drag, even in drag, not her.

    And I was a little uncomfortable with Kirk Douglas until that loon won (Melissa Leo, NEVER CHANGE) and her awe at not just winning but being there with a true legend of the industry made up for it. Because he IS Kirk Douglas and he should not be ignored. Or dissed by a pissant like Justin “waiting for his balls to drop” Timberlake.

  2. 2
    Angela Parisi LaRoe
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 9:01 am

    I was so happy The Portman won. I thought she deserved it. I kind of wish Black Swan won but I had a feeling it wasn’t going to.

  3. 3
    dearcrabby
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 9:26 am

    I’m with you on James Franco…he was so boring I felt like cutting my arm off just to have something interesting to do. I’ve never turned off the Oscars so fast in my life.

  4. 4
    Fan-Ann
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

    This was so painful; crashingly, crushingly boring. Anne Hathaway was game, but her efforts to inject energy into Franco and the event read as increasingly desperate. Franco was evidently so busy posting videos etc. on Twitter, that he paid little attention to the actual event. I admire Hathaway’s energy and beauty but the Oscars need more than a gorgeous model changing into fabulous dresses. This was not young and hip. It was two actors badly in need of a good script. The Oscars need hosts who are experienced in working with live crowds; comedians or the extremely witty who can respond to live events with humor and snark. It was telling that the crowd welcomed Billy Crystal like the second coming, and a subliminal message of “Please stay and rescue us!”. Whoever produced this should be kept far away next year and Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, or Jimmy Fallon should be offered the moon to do it.

  5. 5
    dani2526
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 9:54 am

    Unfortunately James Franco killed any real hope of this being a truly great show. Too bad. Love him on General Hospital. Anyway, aside from that, I thought visually the show was stunning. I also really liked the pace of the award hand-outs…seemed to go fast…that said, I didn’t watch half the speeches.

    They should’ve had more oldies present the awards…Kirk Douglas was awesome!

  6. 6
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Someone somewhere else said RuPaul should host next year, and I think that would totally take the Oscars into new and fresh territory. Maybe THAT should be the prize for winning Drag Race.

  7. 7
    notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I told the Academy Awards show runners that if they tried to play me off the stage, the amount of Oklahoma I would go on their asses would make Christian Bale look like Austin Scarlett. I said they better get that five-second delay going, ’cause there’ll be some horrified pearl-clutching on the East Coast. Everybody agreed that my Oscar and my goodie bag should just be sent by courier to my compound in the San Fernando valley. I also demanded a pair of Anne Hathaway’s panties, but, so far, the Academy has declined to provide them.

  8. 8
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 10:20 am

    I didn’t think it was that bad, but it could have been a whole lot better. I agree with all your positives but want to add:
    Randy Newman’s and Colin Firth’s speech, I thought they both were kind of funny.
    Anne’s musical number was pretty good.
    The autotune video was really funny.
    And Sandra Bullock is always amazing and funny.
    The main problems to me were the people with the long speeches.
    When will they learn do not try to name everybody, it’s impossible and boring. And I couldn’t believe all the people who came with lists, it just seemed tacky to me.
    And I didn’t really mind James Franco, he always seems that way to me. I don’t know the man is busy with his music career, getting a Ph.D, acting, and who knows what else, maybe he was just tired. But like I said he always seems kind of low energy to me. But I love James Franco, someone could make a 2hr. movie of him eating an orange and I’d watch. Mmmmm, James Franco eating an orange, he’s so hot.

  9. 9
    Fan-Ann
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 10:56 am

    NWMTV, I wish you had hosted instead of having your Oscar couriered to you. Please offer to save this show next year if you are not nominated.( After all, we can’t take the risk of the internationally televised Oklahoma beatdown that you could deliver.)Douglas obviously stole the panties reserved for you and who can blame him, he was having an Anne-lust moment.

    @ vallegirl, the idea of Ru hosting is kind of delicious. Just the thought of him in all those designer gowns , wow! And he would surely show more personality than Franco.

  10. 10
    notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Kirk Douglas had better not have Anne Hathaway’s panties. Those rightly belong to me! I don’t care if he WAS in The Final Countdown, I will treat that old man as if he was an anti-government Libyan protestor and I was Muammar Gaddafi!

  11. 11
    Fan-Ann
    Posted February 28, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    NWMTV, Rumor has it that all day today Kirk Douglas stayed in his bedroom admiring a sequined thong that he liberated last night. Have mercy on him, he’s an old man.

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