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Best animated feature film of the year
“Up” (Walt Disney) Pete Docter

“Boy, never did I dream that making a flip-book out of my 3rd grade math book would lead to this,” said Pete Doctor.

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“The Weary Kind” (Theme from “Crazy Heart”)
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Forget that the song was great. Anyone named “T Bone” deserves the awards hands down.

How pathetic is this Oscars that neither Tina Fey nor Robert Downey Jr are given anything funny to say? I swear that Downey has used that “mole people” line at least 3 awards shows in a row.

Original screenplay
Mark Boal - “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

This is what all those last-minute lawsuit litigants suing The Hurt Locker were hoping for. You know what Mark Boal really wanted to say up there to them was: “Screw you!” (But if really were taken from a magazine article, then is this an original screenplay? My head hurts just thinking about it.)

TOLDJA! Here’s that special memorial to John Hughes who died in 2009 which I told you about in an Oscar spoiler. Those were great movies. No Twilight Saga, mind you, but great movies. Today, Hollywood would make them all vampires, werewolves, and avatars.ill going on?
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So 90 minutes have gone by. Can I get those hours of my life back, please?

Best live action short film
“The New Tenants” A Park Pictures and M & M Production
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Thank the lord for Ben Stiller in blueface. “This seemed like a better idea in rehearsal. It was either this, or a Hitler uniform.” Did you see the camera just pan to a stone-faced Jim Cameron? Is there any wonder why everyone in Hollywood hates this guy? (May the film gods one day force Cameron to direct a comedy with that other most hated guy in Hollywood, Vince Vaughn.)

Adapted screenplay
Geoffrey Fletcher - “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

The night’s first UPSET! -Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner were expected to win for Up in the Air. But maybe the Academy voters were turned off by scuttlebutt of warring behind-the-scenes between jason and Sheldon over who wrote what and when. In any case, Geoffrey Fletcher is truly moved. “I’m sorry I’m drawing a blank right now. But I thank everyone.” A win for diversity in Hollywood. This was a beautifully written screenplay, no doubt about it.

First funny line of the night when Steve Martin quipped, “I wrote that script for him.”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

This was without a doubt the biggest and longest lock of the Oscars. She thanked the Academy for “showing that it can be about the performance and not about the politics”. I loved the fact she thanked Hattie McDaniel “for enduring all that you had to so I wouldn’t have to”.

A top Hollywood publicist just called me. “Say how terrible the directing is! It’s awful!” How can you tell because, to me, the whole damn show is a train wreck tonight. WORST OSCARS EVER!

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