2010 Oscars Live Blog: Oscar Winners and Commentary
We start early, we end late and hopefully we feel as if it was worth our time
You tuned in to the right place as I will be covering the 2010 Oscars with up-to-the-minute live-blogging as well as winner updates in the right-hand-column as they are announced. On top of that, winners will also show up on the RopeofSilicon Twitter page as they are announced as well.
To make sure you are entirely ready you will need the following:
- A Printable Ballot (PDF Download)
- Familiarize yourself with the nominees
- Take a look at my winner predictions (I'll keep you updated on how I am doing)
- Take a look at what readers predicted
I will begin the commentary around 3:00 PM Pacific Standard Time as it looks like that's when the red carpet festivities begin, but that will just be something of a warm up and you should be able to watch the red carpet yourself with the video to the right, however I don't believe that is going to be the same thing I'm watching, but you never know.
As the blog goes on I will highlight all winners
The show officially begins at begin at 5:30 PM PST / 8:30 PM EST, so while we wait for things to get started why don't you comment below and let everyone know where you are reading the blog from. Previous years have brought in readers from Spain, England, New Zealand, India, Russia, Australia, France, Sweden, Denmark and, of course, the United States. The fact this is something read by such a large international community is perhaps the best thing about it for me. Hope I'm able to keep you entertained for the entire show and let's also hope the server holds up.
3:13:06 PM: Okay, going to be an up-and-down bit of red carpet coverage for me… but we are live and the rain is soaking the posh folks in Hollywood. Ha, ah… no rain in Seattle chumps!
3:16:40 PM: And by the way, I'm watching E!'s coverage of the red carpet, which I will admit, is a little embarrassing.
3:17:09 PM: Ryan Seacrest chatting it up with Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, really classing up the joint.
3:18:42 PM: Feeling for our New York readers. I can't believe New York City of all places is blacked out from watching the Oscars. Astonishing bit of corporate greed showing its ugly face. Hope I can help.
3:25:06 PM: This is interesting, Awards Daily has a breakdown of the Academy membership. Get it here.
3:25:31 PM: Zoe Saldana is talking to Ryan Seacrest, but the mayor of L.A. is stealing the show… and no one cares.
3:27:30 PM: Joel Madden and Nicole Richie? Really? Man, the Oscars have no pride.
3:29:58 PM: Vera Farmiga's pick for Best Picture is The Hurt Locker.
3:30:51 PM: Farmiga feels she goofed up when she said her vote for Best Director goes to Kathryn Bigelow. It's okay Vera, you're right, Jason won't mind.
3:34:34 PM: Ryan Reynolds is presenting tonight, I think because The Proposal was such a "great" film. He thinks Sandy winning would be a great story. Yeah, it's always great when the best performance doesn't win the Oscar.
3:36:37 PM: Jason Reitman is rocking the wiry gray hair look. Nice.
3:38:17 PM: Seacrest asks James Cameron if he is surprised by Avatar's success. In a perfect world he would have said, "Nope, knew it would make over $2.5 billion."
3:40:33 PM: Maggie Gyllenhaal rocking the Speedo designed dress.
3:50:21 PM: Lenny Kravitz, uses, a lot, of commas, in, conversation.
3:57:30 PM: Giulianna wonders if Sandra Bullock's dress is a tribute to the Olympics… Ugh, I am always ashamed of watching red carpet stuff… Gonna hit the grocery store soon and get food for during the show.
3:59:33 PM: Man, Quinton Aaron towers over everyone. My widescreen television is cutting off his head while Seacrest talks to Bullock.
4:00:26 PM: Oh man, E! bounces Aaron to talk to Bullock solo. Not cool.
4:00:51 PM: Okay, only room for one black guy apparently and Tyler Perry gets the call from the bullpen.
4:01:24 PM: Tyler Perry is here claiming credit for getting Precious into theaters. Uh, okay.
4:03:46 PM: Amanda Seyfried just confirmed she is doing The Girl with the Red Riding Hood at Warner Bros. IMDb has Orphan screenwriter David Johnson directing.
4:05:15 PM: Oh good, Aaron is back with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
4:06:23 PM: Wow, sorry, no offense to Miley Cyrus, but she should not be here wearing that dress. Too young, it's just not right and she doesn't look like she wants to be there.
4:29:23 PM: George Clooney just said hi to Queen Latifah and Adam Shankman said, "It's getting crazy in here Ryan!" Yeah, cuh-razy! Real wack-a-doo.
4:30:33 PM: Man, Clooney just stole Latifah's thunder. His girlfriend isn't looking too interested.
4:31:05 PM: Meryl Streep's rocking the low-cut action. Any Streep fans out there think she's going to win?
4:33:43 PM: J-Lo in the house with Marc Anthony. Yup, the best of Hollywood is here.
4:38:06 PM: Kristen Stewart just smiled.
4:39:10 PM: Gabby and Keanu head-to-head. Gabby just said this is a lot like prom. I really wish she would win.
4:40:00 PM: Gabby to the camera, "Get it… all of it! If fashion was porn this dress would be the money shot."
4:41:07 PM: Seacrest: "So nice to see you in your porn look tonight."
4:41:36 PM: Giulianna just mouthed, "I haven't eaten for two months, but don't I look great with my five-head!"
4:45:00 PM: Seacrest just said, "They are going to start this show in almost an 'Idol'-esque results way by showing the nominees lined-up." Not sure what that means exactly, but you can speculate.
4:51:11 PM: Gerard Butler has a dog. And we apparently care.
4:53:53 PM: Charlize Theron's dress looks like something Madonna would have worn in the '90s. Come on, vogue!
4:59:23 PM: Boom! Swithing to ABC, 30 minutes to go…
5:01:49 PM: Supporting Actress noms lined-up and chatting with Jess Cagle from EW. Interesting idea.
5:03:34 PM: George Clooney's outside the gates looking for his next lady friend.
5:03:49 PM: Kathy Ireland just asked Jake Gyllenhaal about his next movie, because Prince of Persia is VERY important right now.
5:10:20 PM: I wonder how many of these people actually saw The Last Station. My guess, maybe 5%.
5:11:30 PM: Kathy Ireland is rocking the G.I. Joe kung fu grip and may actually think she's talking to Nelson Mandela. No Kathy, that's Morgan Freeman.
5:13:11 PM: Poor Kathy Ireland, she really is out of her league here.
5:15:59 PM: Here is what one person thinks of Sarah Jessica Parker. Yikes!
5:19:17 PM: Whoopi Goldbergh and Poise purchased a MASSIVE amount of commercial air time to promote panty liners. Apparently the male demo must not be the target audience for this telecast.
5:23:25 PM: Kate Winslet getting some attention, she's presenting Best Actor. So basically, she has come to give Jeff Bridges his award.
5:25:28 PM: It's starting to feel like the Oscars, Taylor Lautner and Miley Cyrus are in the house. All the best of Hollywood is here! Oh, and here's Meryl somebody… I think he said Streep. Whoever that is.
5:26:46 PM: It's starting… let's do a page break.
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Hey Brad, I'll be following along tonight from New Brunswick, Canada, while trying to write an essay for a Commerce class..
New Brunswick too! Power to NB :)
You rock ROS!
Hey Brad. I'll be watching your blog from New York where as of now the only way I can see what's happening with the Oscars is from your blog. I have Cablevision and there's no ABC on Cablevision anymore in case you hadn't heard.
So all I ask is be as descriptive as possible. :)
Russia here, will be watching it online
Looks to us Farmiga is on a little something something.
Hey Brad! I'll be following your live blog from Lisbon, Portugal! Keep the great work!
PS: Best moment from until now: Kathryn Bigelow's got Vera Farmiga's vote!haha
Hey Brad,im checking in from Ghana. Lets do this!
Dear media. I don't give a crap about what famous people are wearing. I just want to know who bought the gold statues!
"4:38:06 PM: Kristen Stewart just smiled."
HAHA classic. I laughed.
I'm be watching the ceremony and following the blog from Northern California. Can't wait for your thoughts on tonight's event Brad!
Thanks for doing this blog…also dealing with ABC being pulled from our cable company here in NJ/NYC. I'm freaking out about missing this! I've watched the Oscars every year since I was 12!
is it just me or, do those guys carrying oscar envelopes looked deranged ?
I tried to see The Last Station…
Waltz is great.
Go Fantastic Mr. Fox!!!
Darn…
Oh well, Up was still a great movie
Mr. Fox really should have won.
So what was the whole silent stare between A. Baldwin and George Clooney? And how come after Ryan R. did the intro. for BlindSide, the real parents had their arms folded across their chest???? I am missing inside info!
Man, I loved Locker but Quentin really should have won Script.
Hey! Thanks for doing this! I'm a Princeton student cramming for midterms, so I can't be watching television. It's good to know what's going on…let's hope The Hurt Locker sweeps it.
Hurt Locker taking Best Screenplay was a shocker to me, but not an out-of-nowhere surprise. This'll pretty much solidify "Locker" taking home the big prise, right?
Logorama was fantastic, great to see it win
woo!!! I called for a "Logorama" upset earlier this week- definitely bodes well for my predictions! Is this the first time that Nick Park was beaten out in this category?
hey can anyone tell me the john lasseter quote that he was talking about his advice for young filmmakers? About how its not the resources
Stiller was effin' awesome. And it's great to see Trek win something in its own right.
I'm 9 for 9 so far. It's moments like this I wish I were a gambling man.
I applaud you good sir- i thought this was supposed to be the "predictable" year for Oscars, but my bracket is saying otherwise.
12 for 12. Maybe I'm bragging just a bit.
What. the. hell. Precious over Up in the Air? What a joke.
Anyone else sick of those cervical cancer commercials yet?
Enough with the I See You stuff. It's a horrible catch phrase from a good movie.
Why is Charlize Theron introducing Precious?
I was wondering that same thing. At least when Helen Mirren introduced Precious at the Golden Globes, it was okay cause she was in Lee Daniels' previous movie.
I think they're just getting big names that have the time to do it. My question is why didn't Samuel L. Jackson introduce Inglourious Basterds instead of Up?
You can watch the full Oscars opening here:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2010/03/oscars-neil-patrick-harris-crashes.html
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" in a Horror highlight reel? Am I missing something
Alright, I'm officially boned on my bracket. Now I'm just watching for fun.
Ebert, you have Outguessed me for the last time!
I'm out of the running for my pool as well. Screw you, Music By Prudence.
Loved THL winning in sound categories
So Twilight is a horror movie?
yeah it was horror-ble!
Why didn't Cinematography get a clips segment?
why make cameron and bigelow sit so close quarter ? they look very uncomfortable.
No Farrah Fawcett in the In Memorium? Tools.
i was wondering if anybody else noticed that… my mom is furious!
Avatar winning Best Cinematography? total bs its not even cinematography
thx for the live blogging brad!
cheers from france!
Yeah, the interpretive dance segment everyone was waiting for!
I remember that scene in "The Hurt Locker" where the guys somersaulted across the desert, don't you?!
Solid comment Vince… Good work.
And was the blonde chick supposed to be the wife, the talking dog, or the house with the balloons?
Rim shot!
i love this massive dance sequence for original scores! this was an awesome idea!
It wasn't all bad, just jarring. I'm used to jarring interpretive dances- my best friend is a dance major herself :p
No real surprises so far, but "Hurt Locker" has pretty much solidified its place as the Best Picture winner for tonight.
This was like the only place on net where I could find the names of all the presenters. Nice blogging otherwise too, thanks a lot! :)
I still have hope that there could be a split with Hurt Locker winning director but Avatar winning Picture
YEAH!!!! Called the "Secreto de Sus Ojos" upset!!! So excited, I don't even care that my other predictions went to crap!
So it was brought to my attention that Bea Arthur and Farrah Fawcett were ignored in the In Memorium. That's cold, Academy. Cold.
Did Peter Saarsgard just spoil his own damn film for millions of people? Douche.
Which of the nominees are/were each of these "This is Your Life" people talking about?
God, I wish Gabby Sidibe had won, she was so much more deserving than Bullock.
I agree as well, but I did like the last bits of Sandra's speech.
I haven't seen The Blind Side yet and I am not upset about Bullock winning. Were any of the other performances that GREAT that Bullock's win is that upsetting? Gabby was great but it truly wasn't a performance that will be remembered for years and years. Will Bullock's? Probably not, so it really isn't too big a deal she won.
To stand for the recognition of mediocrity is not a good sign in my opinion no matter what will be remembered in the future, which is an impossible estimation anyway. What will be remembered is the year Bullock won for Best Actress and there were performances that surpassed hers.
Just my opinion of course, but this year did a very good job in recognizing excellence, and in that one category just gave in.
Buy my point is, now without seeing The Blind Side, that I truly don't see how her performance could be surpassed by this field of performances. I saw all the other four and wasn't really that wow'd by any of them. Is she so horrible I will eat my words? I know it is probably stupid for me to argue for someone whose performance I haven't seen, I just can't see how the other performances were leaps and bounds better than hers is. It seemed to me like a pretty mediocre group this year.
Appreciate that Kathryn Bigelow didn't make a big deal about "making history", unlike some people
And she's not the "queen of the world!"
But seriously, i don't think she really appreciated Barbra Streisand commenting "the time has finaly come."
Very disappointed with the best pic winner. I have seen almost every nominee and Avatar deserved this more that The Hut Locker. Avatar goes down as a landmark film and doesn't get its due. The Hurt Locker is a good film but not as best pic of the year.
No. The technicals effects were supposed to go to Avatar. But the story was simple. Too simple.
If avatar's achievements are forgotten i would blame it on the decision to increase the nominations to ten. For a movie of avatar's genre to be nominated for best picture was an achievement in itself but with the ten nominations there will probably be a couple blockbusters nominated a year.
Hopefully, now everyone understands that anybody can win an oscar and there doesn't have to be any hype about being the first african-american or first women to win whatever.
Agree with you.
THE HURT LOCKER shouldnt of won the sound awards or best picture. Poor Avatar and IB. IB should have won best orginal screenplay. wtf!
awesome, the sour taste in my mouth left from the catastrophe at globes is officially gone, and damn bigelow is hottt!!!
Dear Academy,
Thank you for awarding greatness in film this year which truly belonged to The Hurt Locker. I now forgive you for selling out and making it ten nominations.
Had a blast reading this blog for the second (only second) time in the row. Here's to next year, y'all!
down with the king, the hurt locker wins :)
Avatar will be mostly remembered for it's incredible special effects, and it rightly won an Oscar for that. The Hurt Locker is the overall superior film, in my opinion, and I'm glad the Academy went with quality over box office. Hats off to them.
This is the first time I've agreed with their choice for best picture in years.
Did anyone else laugh when Juan Jose Campanella in his Best Foreign Language Film acceptance speech thank the Academy for "not considering Na'vi a foreign language"? I thought that was the funniest line of the night…
Well done Academy for not selling out, and actually awarding the best film of the year.