79th Annual Acadamy Awards watch along/drink along thread.

Cafe Society
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Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond) 8/1
Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) 19/1
Peter O’Toole (Venus) 6/1
Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happiness) 5/1
Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) 1/11

Best Actress:
Penélope Cruz (Volver) 23/1
Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal) 25/1
Helen Mirren (The Queen) 1/30
Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) 16/1
Kate Winslet (Little Children) 8/1

Animated Feature:
Cars 1/5
Happy Feet 1/1
Monster House 13/1

Best Director:
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 12/1
The Departed (Martin Scorsese) 1/9
Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) 5/1
The Queen (Stephen Frears) 15/1
United 93 (Paul Greengrass) 18/1

Best Foreign Film:
After the Wedding 30/1
Days of Glory (Indigènes) 8/1
The Lives of Others 2/3
Pan’s Labyrinth 2/15
Water 23/1

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) 4/3
Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) 15/1
Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) 4/1
Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) 1/2
Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) 4/1

Best Supporting Actress:
Adriana Barraza (Babel) 19/1
Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal) 11/1
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) 3/2
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) 1/8
Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) 12/1

Everything’s better when you can gamble on it.

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I like the Erroll Morris intro talking to a lot of the nominees. It reminds people that few of the nominees are big time stars. The majority of them are just folk, working in the movies behind the scenes. These people are why I never want to see the Oscars get rid of showing the “lesser” Artistic categories. These people are what the Oscars are all about, not the glitter and fluff.

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Gore 2000 joke: shot

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Ellen is doing great so far.

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Peter O’Toole’s wife/companion looks like a Kabuki actress. Scary.

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Okay, this song thing makes me want to get hammered right now in hopes that the pain will go away.

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Note that I typed that BEFORE Ellen’s intro speech.

Drink, Drink, Drink

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Art Direction? Don’t they usually give away a Supporting Actor award first?

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{{comes running down from the bathroom, what did I miss?? Hitting the back button on the dish controller to catch up}}

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Daniel Craig and Nicole for Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth!

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Yay, Pan’s Labyrinth.

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YES! One for Pan’s Labyrinth.

A great and beautiful looking movie.

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Jesus Christ, Maggie Gyllenhall is hot.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal talking about the Scientific and Technical Awards.

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I’m surprised Nicole Kidman said “and the winner is…” For the past decade or so, winners have been announced with the phrase “and the Oscar goes to…” I wonder if there was a change, or if it was a fluke.

Okay, those dancers forming an Oscar was freakin’ awesome.

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Interpretive dance (very short, thank goodness), introducing the backstage announcers.

Commercial now. I’m surprised one of the Supporting categories weren’t given first.

Hooray for Pan’s!

Cute iPhone commercial with lots of scenes from movies of people saying “Hello” on the phone.

The “And the winner is…” surprised me too. We’ll know next category if it’s the thing now, or if Nicole just screwed up. Daniel was hot! I love Nicole but I don’t like her dress.

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Okay, even as a straight female I have to say: Nicole Kidman looked hot. Except for the big bow eating the back of her neck.

I think our drink word should be “thank.” :slight_smile:

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Oh my OG! Will Ferral is singing! What is with his hair! :smack:

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Jack Black and Will Ferrell not being funny.

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You know, they constantly complain about going over time and then they spend time on crap like this.