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I was sort of hoping Untited 93 would get this one. I think it was robbed in the Best Pic nominations.
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Agreed. It was a superb movie. Incredibly powerful while not shoving it down your throat.
An incredible balancing act.
Updated prediction based on the awards so far: Little Miss Sunshine to win Best Picture.
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
No Aaron Spelling? No James Brown? No Anna Nicole Smith?
Or was Spelling not counted for being TVish stuff, Brown not counted for being Musicalish stuff, and Smith not counted for being, uh, ish stuff?
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Well Brown has some film credits, why Anna? What did she have to do with movies?
I checked Spelling was only TV. This is the Oscars. http://imdb.com/name/nm0005455/filmotype
Jeez, I hope Philip Seymour Hoffman’s hair is for a role. :dubious:
It’s always fun to see who gets enthusiastic applause and who just gets polite applause, like when Elia Kazan died. (He was disliked by many for naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.)
Philip Seymour Hoffman presenting Best Actress
Winner: Helen Mirren, of course!
I had to take my headphones off for the Roll Call of the Dead. I hate the clap a lot for some, hardly at all for others thing. That’s rude and I feel sorry for the people’s family.
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
No Aaron Spelling? No James Brown? No Anna Nicole Smith?
Or was Spelling not counted for being TVish stuff, Brown not counted for being Musicalish stuff, and Smith not counted for being, uh, ish stuff?
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Anna Nicole died in 2007, but damn she got shafted for the Oscar in “Naked Gun 33 1/3”
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Well Brown has some film credits, why Anna? What did she have to do with movies?
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Whattya mean? Doesn’t The Naked Gun 33 and a Third count for anything? :eek: 
\o/ Dame Helen FTW!
Helen Mirren, yay!
Holy crap, Oscar’s a tranny! The conservative Christians are gonna hate these awards. (How can a naked guy be a transvestite, anyway?)
I was just waiting for them to play Helen Mirren offstage.
Dancers with a Gun, backstage bullshit.
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
Whattya mean? Doesn’t The Naked Gun 33 and a Third count for anything? :eek:
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Maybe the grief was still to close. 
The iPhone commercials are the best of the night.
Holy Crap! As I type this - Was that the Pogues on a commercial for freaking Cadillac???
Yeah! I never thought I’d hear The Pogues during an Oscars telecast. I like the iPhone commercial too.
The only filmy thing I saw James Brown in was one of those The Driver BMW shorts (in which he was fucking awesome, BTW)Don’t remember,was he in the Blues Brothers?
Here we go folks. The big ones are coming.
Come on Marti!
Very late . . . getting tired . . . . Reese is lookin’ good! Take that, Ryan!
Idi Amin “the ultimate bad guy?” Aren’t we forgetting Adolf Hitler? And Darth Vader?
[QUOTE=Annie]
The only filmy thing I saw James Brown in was one of those The Driver BMW shorts (in which he was fucking awesome, BTW)Don’t remember,was he in the Blues Brothers?
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He was. The singing preacher. He also did a turn(just singing) in Rocky 4