Sunday, February 25, 2007

79th Annual Academy Award (Oscar) Winners

Live-blogging will commence shortly...
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION: Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta (Pan's Labyrinth)
Gordon E. Sawyer Award: Ray Feeney
(Will Ferrell and Jack Black have a musical act and John C. Reilly joins in the fun)
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP: David Martí, Montse Ribé (Pan's Labyrinth)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: The Danish Poet (Torill Kove)
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: West Bank Story (Ari Sandel)
(Hollywood Sound Effects Choir)
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING: Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman, Letters from Iwo Jima
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING: Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, Dreamgirls
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
(Ellen pitches a script to Martin Scorsese)
(James Taylor and Randy Newman perform "Our Town" from Cars. Melissa Etheridge performs "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth.)
(Al Gore announces that he is just there for the movies and talks about the climate crisis. For the first time, the Oscars have gone green. The vice president recieves a long and loud applause. Vice President Gore announces that he will take the opportunity to announce "my attentions to" and he then gets cut off by the music.)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR: Happy Feet (George Miller)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: William Monahan, The Departed
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN: Milena Canonero, Marie Antoinette
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Sherry Lansing
(Clint Eastwood is now jealous that she has no script for him. She wants a photo for her myspace. Steven Spielberg takes it of them.)
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: Guillermo Navarro, Pan's Labyrinth
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS: John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
(A look at the last 50 years of foreign language films.)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR: The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
(George Clooney does not think that former Vice President Al Gore is running for president.)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: The Blood of Yingzhou District (Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon)
(Ah, Jerry Seinfeld. He talks about the movies being overpriced and the lack of people picking up their own garbage.)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim) (Al Gore was not a producer of the film but a star. Climate crisis is not a political issue but a moral issue.)
Academy Honorary Award: Ennio Morricone
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE): Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel
(When did Jack Nicholson shave is head?)
(Academy president Sid Ganis talks about the Academy is under a minute.)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SONG): Melissa Etheridge, "I Need to Wake Up" (An Inconvenient Truth)
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING: Thelma Schoonmaker, The Departed
(Tribute to those that have died in the past year.)
(Ellen forgets that the show isn't over.)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
(Ellen vacuums the carpet.)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
(Forest appears a little bit on the nervous side which is completely understandable. Was there anyone he didn't thank?)
(Three very talented directors Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas present the nominees for best director. George never won an award. Lucas says it is better to give and recieve.)
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
(Scorsese is overwelmed and moved that his old friends presented the award. I'm glad for Marty. He deserved it. This was a film that I regret not seeing yet but if it's on DVD, I hope to see it next week.)
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR: The Departed (Graham King)

Here's my original predictions for this year's awards. Here's how well I did: 8/24

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