2012 Academy Awards show

[CaptainCanada]

Christopher Guest's posse!

Though I'll agree Jessica Chastain would probably have been a worthy winner as well -- she was excellent in everything I saw her in recently (The Tree of Life, The Debt, Take Shelter... I wonder if perhaps she was nominated for the wrong film).

Of the three I've seen, The Help had the most range, from comedy to tragedy, and she excelled at both.

Best editing: Surprise win! And a good choice, too.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Clooney's like. Well you know.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

My area of interest in film is editing. This is my category!

 

[Dream]

OMG! Dragon Tattoo won for Editing! That's a huge award.

 

[Timby]

I love that we have to have a bunch of montages and skits, and sit through goddamned Cirque du Soleil, but we can't have the two fucking nominees for Best Original Song performed.

Shit: Major surprise on Dragon Tattoo winning Editing.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

So will the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo share this award, seeing as how this is really a copy/paste film?

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Geez. When remakes win Oscars, now more of them will be made. All those original movies up there, and The Academy pics the remake for editing?

 

[CaptainCanada]

Given how the sound categories work, this probably means Hugo will win the other one too.

Edit: Yup.

That's probably it for Hugo this evening. Though it could conceivably tie The Artist if two more categories break against it (Actor and Original Screenplay).

Geez. When remakes win Oscars, now more of them will be made. All those original movies up there, and The Academy pics the remake for editing?

What does that have to do with anything? Remakes have been winning since the beginning, and it's not like Fincher and co. just copied the other guys.

 

[Dream]

HUGO is pretty much winning everything right now.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

It was veeery close to the original movie. Every note hit in the remake was in the original. It wasn't Psycho remake bad, but very close.

 

[Timby]

Geez. When remakes win Oscars, now more of them will be made. All those original movies up there, and The Academy pics the remake for editing?

What does that have to do with anything? Remakes have been winning since the beginning, and it's not like Fincher and co. just copied the other guys.

No joke -- if anything, the Fincher Dragon Tattoo hews a lot closer to the source material than the Swedish version, and the Fincher version is a hell of a ride, especially for anyone who's never seen the original or never read the book(s).

 

[Samurai8472]

Darn. I believe that was Drive's only nomination

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

That was pretty cool

 

[Dream]

I loved that Kermit and Miss Piggy segment.

 

[Samurai8472]

Danny Elfman's music

I think I heard a bit of Batman Returns

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Danny Elfman is instantly recognizable!

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

And awesome as always.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Iron Man and Pepper!

 

[Dream]

Iron Man reunion!

 

[Samurai8472]

It's Tony Stark and Pepper potts

"Relax Honey"

RDJ is in Stark mode. I wouldn't be surprised if Tony Stark did a reality show