78th Oscars Thread (unboxed spoilers)

Cafe Society
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“I’d like to thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominee’s luncheon” indeed.

Best Documentary Feature:

March of the Penguins

Figures penguins would win over an expose of corporate corruption and street fights in Newark. Think they were expecting to win, with all the stuffed animals?

Charlize’'s dress was fugly as hell. That bow was too much and it made her look flat-chested. She is quite beautiful, though, and I think from the neck up she looked fantastic as always.

JLo, that color is not for you, and why are you covering your butt with that flowy thing? Her severe hair is not flattering either. Or maybe I just don’t like her.

Uh oh, another Best Song presentation. Bleah. Potty break time.

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He narrated.

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I checked, he was.

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“I want to thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the awards luncheon”.

Priceless.

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“…and now a performance of tonight’s second number nominated for Best Song…”
That’s code for “You have time to go make a sandwich.”

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Ah. Strange they shot him in the wings then.

Yeah, I don’t care much for J-Lo, but her dress was beautiful, AND she didn’t botch the presentation.

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Ah, The Penguins win…my brother is probably having a fit right now. (He’s on the Academy’s documentary committee, and HATES movies that anthromorphisize animals.)

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I thought it was Rob Corddry.

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Hu? Keanu Reeves is presenting?

Um, why?

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What the hell is up with the full-sized burning car onstage during that song? I thought someone had set the auditorium on fire. What a weird and obnoxious choice. Some really out-there choices for the show this year.

Wonder who the “special surprise performance” will be from after the next commercial break?

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You know, like whoa.

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Took me a while to realize that the singer of that song is the same person who played Toby Ziegler’s ex-wife on “The West Wing”.

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:smiley:

That poor man can’t act his way out of a paper bag.

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Prediction: it’ won’t be all that ‘special,’ much of a ‘surprise’…or even a ‘performance,’ probably.

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As toilets all over America flush …

At least they’re moving along quickly. One of the best things about living in California is that this thing is over before midnight.

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Probably because he’s got a new movie coming out. One in which he plays a brain damaged cop, and since the role’s going to be a stretch for him, the studio probably wants to get him out in front of the cameras as much as possible before the film opens.

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The H3 ad was just sick. H3 the bastard child of Godzilla and giant robot - sounds about right to me. :eek:

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Unfortunately, I have to go to bed at 8 so that I can get up at 4 a.m., so you people had better post lots of details!

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Nobody mentioned it, but Nicole Kidman looked fabulosasexymagnifico in that white number earlier. She looks great as a blonde but bring back the red, Nicole. Please, bring back the red. For me?

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I agree, she looks fabulous, blonde or red.

Oh look, Keanu is acting “wooden.”