And the Oscars go to...

Oh yea...the 78th Annual Academy Awards, LIVE, on TV now. An award ceremy with the glitzy and glamour, with the star studded actors and actresses present together.

And the host of the night, Jon Steward, remarked that the presenters are in the order of how good they are. Wahahahahaha!!!!

The nominee list can be found here.

First up, Nicole Kidman presenting the award for Best Supporting Actor to George Clooney. And what a cracking acceptance speech he gave on actors and their different roles, and to just have ALL put on Bat-suits to compare each other on a level playing field (for the uninitiated, it's about him and his movie "Batman").

Talking about acceptance speeches, the producers are always worried of over-running. Sure-fire way to keep the speech length to a minimum? Clue in a video of Tom Hanks giving a demo of the 'correct' type of acceptance speech was indeed comical o_O (seeing him kenna surrounded by a music band, and whacked by a guitar (awww....what a waste of a nice guitar).

And Ben Stiller is forever funny. In a green unitard (ya I take the term straight from them) presenting the award for Best Visual Effects, claiming himself to be 'invisible'. King Kong won the animals of Narnia and the aliens of War of the Worlds.

Resse Witherspoon is next for presenting Best Animated Feature. Howl's Moving Castle (I hope this wins!) versus Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (This is nice :p) versus Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Funny as usual). In the end, Wallace & Gromit wins! Finally, a nice one...and the producers have bow-ties! o_O And the most funny thing is that...they attached mini-bow-ties to their Oscar trophies! o_O"

Best Live Action Short Film is presented by Luke & Owen Wilson, brothers who first started out with the making of a short film themselves. Aureisser vs Cashback vs Sidasti Bærinn vs Our Time Is Up vs Six Shooter (the final winner!)

And they bring along Chicken Little and Goosey Loosey, who comments that ducks never get the pants o_O" (see Donald Duck?) And Chicken Little...takes off his pants in front of the the audience. And uses the Oscar envelope to fold into his replacement *err* shorts (like what he did in the movie)

Jennifer Aniston presents Best Costume Design, which goes to Memoirs of a Geisha. And there is a short film in dedication to the actors and actresses who potray real-life figures. Best makeup sees the makeup crew of Chronicles of Narnia pit against Cinderella Man and Star Wars III. In the end, the makeup crew of Chronicles of Narnia came out triumphant.

Steward remarked that "If all (actors and actresses) came together to pull the Oscar statue down, would there be democracy in Hollywood?" o_O

Best Supporting Actress went to Rachel Weisz for her role in The Constant Gardener.

Actress in a Leading role is hilarious. A short clip showing the 5 nominees, what LA would be seeing on their tee vees... Felicity Huffman, acting haggard, the standard look(?). Acting while Beautiful, Kiera Knightley, acting with Gold Dust on her cheeks (o_O). Resse Witherspoon is a person who might be hired for gardening(?) o_O and Judi Dench, paid for by the organisation of Dames o_O" (Great this is getting lame, I cant type as fast as they present).

Charlize Theron is hot! o_O" OMG I'm sweltering.

The Best Documentary goes to March of the Penguins, which is made by a group of French producers, hugging penguin stuffed toys (I wan!) to receive the award.

Now Playing: In the Deep (Crash OST)

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves come together again (remember Speed 1 and 2?) to present Best Art Direction. Art Direction is important in bringing forth art sketches to the blue screen. John Mayer wins for Memoirs of a Geisha (which I think is a vividly well-done film).

Salma Hayek is now an actress-producer? Wow. I didn't know that. And a wonderful piece of music from the Oscar band!!!! Oh mans, I'd just gotta have the soundtrack. They played the original scores for the different Oscar nominated movies! Gustavo Santaolalla won the Best Music Score for his piece in Brokeback Mountain (aww man...I just love instrumentals....so nice!)

And Jessica Alba is totally hot!really really sweet looking tonight o_O Can you believe than Jon Steward said that he would like her and Eric Bana to repopulate Earth should the whole population be wiped out. That aside, King Kong wins Best Mixing!

An Extraordinary Oscar (Honorary Academy Award) is given to director-producer-writer Robert Altman.

Best Music goes to "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow. Quite a funky lil' music tune. Haha. Presented by Queen Latifah, no less. And Jon Steward had to say that it's getting easier for a pimp now o_O And definitely the most exciting people of the night!

And Jennifer Garner (another hot babe!) nearly tripped on coming out to present the award (too bad, she recovered almost immediately, must be 'cos she does her own stunts.... o_O" So dudes, looking for a quick glance down the nice dress she wore? Nah...no chance!) King Kong won Best Sound Editing eventually, against War of the Worlds and Memoirs of a Geisha. I have a feeling that the award did not go to WotW 'cos of the 'simple sound amplitude' mixing required for a 40db voice (of the aliens) o_O

Zhang Ziyi on stage in a black hot tube and dress! This is a nose-bleeding session. Then again, it's the costume designers who do the fantastic dresses which help to make young guys fantasize?? which just helps add to the glitz and glamour of the event.

Will Smith trying to sputter say some foreign language in his presentation of Best Foreign Film. John Travolta (2 time Award Winner) is still stocky looking. Dion Beebe from Memoirs of the Geisha wins the Best Cinematography.

Actress in a Leading Role went to Resse Witherspoon (Walk the Line)! Oh mans, I had always wanted Kiera Knightley to win it shucks 'cos she's chio! Or Charlize Theron o_O And she just goes on and on...for the thank you (aka acceptance speech) she should be the demo actress for the longest acceptance speech o_O

In a 5-way fight for Best Adapted Screenplay between Capote, Brokeback Mountain, The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence and Munich, it goes to Brokeback Mountain! (finally an award o_O)

Best Original Screenplay pits Crash, "good night, and good luck.", Match Point, The Squid and the Whale and Syriana. Crash won the award, and I must say it was a great win for them. 2 awards so far, more to come?

Now for the most important award so far...the tussle for Best Director between Capote, Crash, "good night, and good luck.", Brokeback Mountain and Munich. Lee Ang wins for Brokeback Mountain. Certainly a wonderful achievement for the Chinese director, winning against the likes of Steven Spielberg and George Clooney.

Best Motion Picture of the Year pits the very same nominees as Best Picture together. (for another round of fights). Oscars goes to Crash, after a close fight between the 5 movies. Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman win for Crash, and it's all the more sweeter when you look at who they were up against (Lee Ang in Brokeback Mountain, Steven Speilberg in Munich).

Philip Seymour Hoffman wins for Capote in Best Leading Actor.

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