Oscar After-Parties:
Governors Ball, Vanity Fair, and Weinstein Company
Best Dressed…
Worst Dressed…
Billy Crystal’s uncomfortable quotes of the night:
1. “We are here at the beautiful chapter 11 theater.”
2. “Viola Davis played A strong black woman that wasn’t played by Tyler Perry!”
3. “Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like millionaires presenting each other with gold statues.”
4. “When I came out of The Help, I wanted to hug the first black woman I saw, which from Beverly Hills is about a 45-minute drive.”
THE WINNERS:
Best Picture: The Artist
Actress in a Leading Role: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
CLICK HERE for acceptance speech
Actor in a Leading Role: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
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Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Documentary Short Subject: Saving Face
Live Action Short Film: The Shore
Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen
Adapted Screenplay: The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Original Song: “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets; Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Original Score: The Artist, Ludovic Bource
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Visual Effects: Hugo
Animated Feature Film: Rango
Documentary Feature: Undefeated
Sound Mixing/Editing: Hugo
Film Editing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Actress in a Supporting Role: Octavia Spencer, The Help
Foreign Language Film: A Separation (Iran)
Makeup: The Iron Lady
Costume Design: The Artist
Art Direction: Hugo
Cinematography: Hugo
Moments To Remember:
1. Billy Crystal’s opening monologue:
2. Jennifer Lopez’s wardrobe malfunction:
3. Sacha Baron Cohen dumps ashes on Ryan Seacrest:
4. The Descendants’ writers mimic Angelina’s “right leg pose” during acceptance speech:
5. Jean Dujardin wins, curses in French, and gets his dance on
*But he also “loves our country!”
6. This Kiss
7. The return of the F*** word… TJ Martin replaces Melissa Leo
8. The speech given by Hugo‘s Sound Editing team: “I’d just like to thank everybody who is here tonight, and everybody who isn’t and everybody who’s ever been born, or may be born or be born again or reborn. If I’ve forgotten anybody then you probably know who you are.”
9. Bradley Cooper’s face when presenting his 1st Oscar. And his 2nd Oscar. And his 3rd Oscar…
10. Cirque du Soleil: watching Clooney’s bemused reaction to the swinging trapeze-y action made it more fun.
*BONUS: CLICK HERE for what you didn’t see on TV
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