Only 8 minutes over… not bad.
Can’t prove it but I’ve long had the impression that the Academy tends to favor movies about movies.
Is it my imagination, or does Tom Cruise have hairplugs going on?
Anyway, what’s really important is that Woody Allen didn’t win Best Film. 
This is the first movie about movies that’s ever won Best Picture.
LOL “No Animals Were Harmed” in the credits
Glad they didn’t drag out the Price-WaterhouseCoopers guys this year… when did they stop doing that?
“No animals were harmed”? No animals were even in the damn thing. Muppets don’t count.
Uggie the dog from The Artist was onstage.
The last time a silent film won Best Picture was Wings in 1927, the very first Best Picture winner.
(ok, The Artist isn’t totally silent like Wings was, but close enough)
The dog from The Artist came on stage to accept the Best Picture trophy. I wonder if that was thrown in at the last minute?
KMBC in Kansas City cut off the credits and presented instead two minutes of a black screen. So I didn’t get to see who was in that band.
Well, I guess it’ll be even harder to prove, then. :smack:
The little dog from The Artist was onstage.
This is going to be another one of those years at which people look back and say, “Really? They awarded that movie Best Picture?”
Ah, well, I missed that, but I didn’t miss a shot of the dog in the audience earlier in the broadcast, so I was talking out my bottom anyway. Never mind.
I still think Shakespeare in Love and Crash were the best of the nominees that year, yet people never stop bitching about them winning either. I say that about THE ENGLISH PATIENT though.
Yes, and most will say it in wonder and awe.
Well, it wasn’t “Crash” bad…
(sorry, Fusoya 
)
overall that was a pretty meh show. i like billy crystal fine but i actually liked the anne hathaway/james franco hosts from last year, with anne all bubbly and james stoned off his ass. this year was kind of boring. cirque was good, though.
That’s a very narrow view of the question. Movies about acting and stagecraft get nominated for awards all the time: Finding Neverland, Shakespeare In Love, Hugo, Moulin Rouge, The Player, Black Swan, Chicago
Many others have little winking subplots, like Gosford Park, or Inglourious Basterds.
(And then you’ve got movies set in L.A., which also tend to appeal to Academy voters.)
Here are the winners:
Best Picture
"The Artist"
“The Descendants”
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“The Help”
“Moneyball”
“War Horse”
“The Tree of Life”
Best Actor
Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”
George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”
Best Actress
Glenn Close, “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis, “The Help”
Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams, “My Week With Marilyn”
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, “My Week With Marilyn”
Jonah Hill, “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte, “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
Max Von Sydow, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain, “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Best Director
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”
Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”
Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Best Original Screenplay
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
JC Chandor, “Margin Call”
Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, “Bridesmaids”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxton, Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
John Logan, “Hugo”
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March”
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, “Moneyball”
Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughn, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Best Animated Feature
“A Cat In Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss in Boots”
"Rango"
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Bullhead (Belgium)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)
Original Score
“The Adventures of Tintin,” John Williams
"The Artist," Ludovic Bource
“Hugo,” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse,” John Williams
Best Original Song
"Man or Muppet," The Muppets; Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio,” Rio; Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Best Achievement in Art Direction
“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
"Hugo"
“Midnight in Paris”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Cinematography
“The Artist”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
"Hugo"
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Costume Design
“Anonymous”
"The Artist"
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“W.E.”
Best Documentary Feature
“Hell and Back Again”
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
“Pina”
“Undefeated”
Best Documentary Short Subject
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement?”
“God Is the Bigger Elvis”
“Incident in New Baghdad”
"Saving Face"
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
Best Achievement in Film Editing
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
Best Achievement in Makeup
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
"The Iron Lady"
Best Animated Short Film
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Best Live Action Short Film
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
"The Shore"
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”
**
Best Achievement in Sound Editing**
“Drive”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
"Hugo"
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
"Hugo"
“Moneyball”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
"Hugo"
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”