Live Blogging the Oscars -- The Second Hour
Filed under: Awards, Oscar Watch

Click here for the 2008 Academy Award Winners, updated in real time, and highlighted in bold.
Cinematical's Erik Davis, Scott Weinberg and Kim Voynar are live blogging the Oscars! Scott's up next with the ceremony's second hour below ...
10:45pm As the guy from Loverboy and Can't Buy Me Love introduces yet another song from Enchanted, I turn you over to Ms. Kim Voynar, who gets pretty much all the best awards to herself.
10:44pm The consistently unintelligible Penelope Cruz is here to give out the award for Best Foreign Film, a category that Kim and I are boycotting for various reasons. Congrats, though, go to Best Foreign Film: The Counterfeiters.
10:39PM brb i have to pee
10:33PM Nicole Kidman gives out a Lifetime Achievement award to art director / production designer Robert F. Boyle, of North By Northwest, The Birds, and Fiddler on the Roof.
10:29PM Apparently Renee Zellweger is a huge fan of film editing, and so she gives out this award: Best Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum. That's three!!
10:27PM Wow, I forgot that Crash won Best Picture.
10:25PM Kim says it's Hansard she loves, not Farrell. So there. Glen, I have her number.
10:23PM Woohoo! Jack Nicholson time! This guy's the freakin' man. Still. Here he intros a look back at the first 79 Best Picture Winners. Cool.
10:20PM You gotta remember Glen Hansard from The Commitments, right? He had crazy red hair back then.
10:18PM Colin Farell (aka Voynar's secret lover) slides on in to introduce a tune ("Falling Slowly") from Once. If this song doesn't win this award, I'll kick one of my three cats.
10:13PM Good lord is Marion cute.
10:12PM The always-cool Forest Whitaker is here to give out a big one. Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose!
10:07PM The gals guys are back to give another one: Best Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum. Awesome. I love that movie.
10:02PM Judi Dench and Halle Berry (aka Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill) give out the award for Best Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum.
9:56PM The girl who sang that song played Jeff Daniels' wife in RV.
9:53PM Someone called My-lee Dallas introduces a song ("That's How You Know") from Enchanted.
9:49PM Guess we're waiting for the best original screenplay. That's odd. Now we have an Academy Man talking about how important the awards are. Oh, and the accountants. I need some ice for my beverage.
9:47PM James Brolin and James McAvoy are on hand for the screenplay awards. Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen! No Country for Old Men!
9:44PM We kick off hour two with a very amusing acceptance speech by surprise winner Tilda Swinton. Good stuff! ...And the first Horton Hears a Who footage I've ever seen comes as part of a Comcast commercial. Awesome. And NOW I learn that Jessica Alba was chosen to host the Oscar technical awards, which only makes sense because she's a robot.










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-24-2008 @ 10:15PM
Jake said...
Uugh, I thought Ellen Page should have won.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:18PM
mike green said...
go, blood, go
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2-24-2008 @ 10:21PM
Jake said...
Scott,
don't get angry at the Cats. Were talking about the Motion Picture Academy. They love to do stupid things from time to time.
(I completely agree with you though. This is, by far, the best song nominated.)
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2-24-2008 @ 10:26PM
Dorv said...
I like Falling Slowly too, but I think that the Enchanted songs, especially How do you Know, are more deserving than most are giving them credit for.
2-24-2008 @ 10:39PM
Jake said...
Yeah... no.
Personally, I think the Enchanted songs are the same Disney overproduced piles of sh*t that they do every time they do a musical.
Just because its nominated, doesn't mean its good. It would be like if they nominated the cover the Page and Cera did at the end of Juno. Its music in a movie, therefore it should be nominated.
2-24-2008 @ 10:50PM
Dorv said...
I guess I'll just respectfully disagree (Instead of just telling you that you're wrong... I know, a novel concept).
I thought Enchanted was suprisingly good just because of the homage to Disney's roots.
Still think the song from Once was better, but just that How you Know and the others were more deserving than given credit.
The right song won... Funny, the first time I thought it, I thought it was Damien Rice, one of my favorite performers.
2-24-2008 @ 10:30PM
mike green said...
bourne has three oscars!
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2-24-2008 @ 10:32PM
mike green said...
nicole's accent is so sexy
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2-24-2008 @ 10:40PM
Jake said...
Things that should have happened:
the Borne Ultimatum up for Best Picture.
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2-24-2008 @ 10:46PM
lee said...
So did the country of Austria win an oscar for best foreign language film or did the director? I'm confused. And why is there so much singing?
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2-24-2008 @ 10:48PM
dtpollitt said...
LOL. Seriously, I spit out some beer. I second that.
Dan
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2-24-2008 @ 10:51PM
Jake said...
Whew, for a second there I thought that Disney might come home with it. It was a mathmatical thing...
HORRAY ONCE!
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2-24-2008 @ 11:00PM
Jake said...
Put one in the Win for There Will Be Blood.
Can't wait for this movie on HD DVD... Oh wait...
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2-24-2008 @ 11:06PM
Darin said...
That was the worst awards show I've ever seen. Starting with the host and the writers' should have stayed on strike. The movies selected were a bomb and the one's that won even worse. and my $6k tv didn't allow me to read all the stuff it was mostly off the screen and sounds mistakes and people sliding around the stage.. I almost hope for someone to fall just so something happened.. What a let down that they don't base these wins on Talents and greatness but who is friends with who... What a shame
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2-24-2008 @ 11:48PM
jsyd said...
moviefone or whoever's website comes up on AOL for the oscars incorrectly identifies amy adams as isla fischer...oops!
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