# 85th Academy Awards viewing thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 24, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279 "2013-02-24T19:12:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/61 "2013-02-25T02:07:40Z")
That 9-year-old actress is too young to be watching this, my TV says it’s rated 14.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/62 "2013-02-25T02:08:31Z")
Not all of them. Where’s Scarlett Johansson?
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/63 "2013-02-25T02:08:51Z")
Where’s Scarlett? Damn you, Broadway! Damn you all to hell!
Whoever is directing this telecast is having a tough night. Some obviously wrong camera shots here, as well as during the opening.
Oh, and _Life of Pi_ wins a technical award for cinematography! Who saw THAT coming?
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/64 "2013-02-25T02:08:56Z")
Wow. I’ll remember that speech for a while.
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### Author:  [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/65 "2013-02-25T02:09:00Z")
That was a pretty awesome speech. I like how overwhelmed he was, and still remembered his wife and daughters.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/66 "2013-02-25T02:09:05Z")
I wanted _Pirates: Band of Misfits_ to win. And don’t understand the love for _Paperman_, which takes a cartoonish turn that ruins it.
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### Author:  [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/67 "2013-02-25T02:11:30Z")
Now I’ll HAVE to see Life of Pi.
But wouldn’t it have been great to have The Avengers win for visual effects with the guys right there to present it?
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/68 "2013-02-25T02:12:26Z")
_Jaws_ music to play off the speeches? That’s awesome!
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/69 "2013-02-25T02:12:32Z")
I wonder what he was going to urge us all to remember.
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### Author:  [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/70 "2013-02-25T02:13:04Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#):
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> _Jaws_ music to play off the speeches? That’s awesome!
But didn’t that cutoff seem kind of abrupt? Is there something going on here?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/71 "2013-02-25T02:13:09Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#):
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> _Jaws_ music to play off the speeches? That’s awesome!
Yeah, I thought that was pretty clever.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/72 "2013-02-25T02:13:32Z")
So far, using the _Jaws_ theme to shut up winners who talk to much is the highlight of the night.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/73 "2013-02-25T02:14:02Z")
> [@Lamia](#):
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> I wonder what he was going to urge us all to remember.
The Fifth of November?
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/74 "2013-02-25T02:15:04Z")
All sorts of awkwardness there, with the visual effects protests going on outside the Oscars over the shutdown of Rhythm and Hues.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/75 "2013-02-25T02:15:14Z")
Life of Pi for Cinematography and Visual Effects. Poor Hobbit, but ok. Pi was a silly movie but it sure was pretty, and that tiger was amazing.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/76 "2013-02-25T02:15:51Z")
> [@Hermione](#):
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> But didn’t that cutoff seem kind of abrupt? Is there something going on here?
Yes, a Coke commercial. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/77 "2013-02-25T02:19:13Z")
Did Jennifer Aniston just wink at Clooney?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/78 "2013-02-25T02:19:28Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> Wow. I’ll remember that speech for a while.
What happened?
> [@Equipoise](#):
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> Life of Pi for Cinematography and Visual Effects. Poor Hobbit, but ok. Pi was a silly movie but it sure was pretty, and that tiger was amazing.
Hobbit definitely should have won on the merit of effects, but Pi is getting a lot of love from the critics. Except for the incredibly, incredibly powerful monologue from the main character at the end of the movie, I thought it was only OK. Hobbit, to me, was also the better movie.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/79 "2013-02-25T02:19:37Z")
Very classy acceptance speech.
I’m reminded of what someone once said: “Don’t wear what designers design. Wear what _they_ wear.”
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/80 "2013-02-25T02:20:21Z")
Yay, so happy for **Anna Karenina** ’s costume win. I’m mostly over the Academy’s insistence that the category is Most Costumes, not Best Costumes, but that movie had some really inventive costumes that also helped define the characters. Congrats, Jacqueline Durran!
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