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Hollywood’s biggest (and possibly most anticlimactic) night is upon us, which can only mean one thing: Movieline’s third annual Oscar Liveblog Extravaganza! Join your Movieline editors and loyal readers as we parse the Academy Awards to within an inch of their glamorous lives. The fun begins on the red carpet at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the Oscarcast proper commencing at 8:30 p.m ET/5:30 p.m. PT. And in any case, keep abreast of this year’s Oscar class with our commentary after the jump. [ADVISORY 8 p.m. ET: The CoverItLive/Twitter interface is buggy for the time being; we’re working on a solution! Thanks for your patience!] [ADVISORY 8:20 p.m. ET: Many apologies to readers who had been checking out the livetweet module; technical difficulties on the Twitter interface made it impossible to continue. Please chime in with us in the comments!] 11:38 Well, thanks for playing along, and sorry for the technical difficulties. But enough about Harvey Weinstein’s high-five abilities! That is all. More Monday on Movieline. Go drinking! What are you still doing here? 11:35 And Tom Cruise announces The Artist as Best Picture winner. And give Uggie the Oscar! 11:33 Some really great plastic surgery in the last 3 minutes. 11:30 Meryl Streep wins Best Actress! Great? 11:26 “Rooney, you have no experience. Congrats, get the fuck out of here.” 11:24 Best Actress! Colin Firth is so eloquent. “Glenn! You are so Nobbsie. Hallo, Nobbsie! Well done, Glenn. You did Nobbsie. Nobbsie!” 11:20 VIOLIN LADY! 11:18 Congrats to Jean Dujardin! You’ll never work in this town again. 11:14 I have nothing left. Demian, George, Jean… what a way to introduce yourself to PUUUUUKE 11:08 Thank you to the Academy for elevating George Kuchar to roughly 10 dead-industry-people places below Elizabeth Taylor. 11:03 I DIED 10:58: VIOLIN LADY! 10:52 Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius. Obviously. 10:48 Oscar date: “Where is our dead people montage? Where is our dead people montage? ” Yeah, kinda. 10:45 Yayyyyy, photo-bombers Brandon Oldenburg and William Joyce take Best Animated Short. Congrats. Cocktail/smoke/heroin/sleep break… BRB. 10:42 Short winners: The Shore (dramatic) and Saving Face (documentary). Y’all are totally fucking up my Oscar pool. 10:39 Kristin Wiig, film size queen. May I suggest Margaret ? 10:33 Adam Sandler wants to get to the truth. By the time he’s 85. He might get there. 10:30 Woody Allen wins Best Original Screenplay. Let’s get to what affects Reese Witherspoon about Overboard . 10:26 Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash win it for The Descendants . Payne, insufferably, to his mother: “If I ever won another Oscar, I had to dedicate it to you.” Well, then. 10:18 Should I be saying something about these suits? The cymbals? Or that 1/2 of Flight of the Conchords just won an Oscar? Yes, that. 10:13 Ludovic Bource! Way to rape the Oscars ! 10:10 Uggie was on the Oscars. We did it . 10:04 VIOLIN LADY! 10:01 For Beginners , Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest actor ever to win an Oscar. Take it away, kid. 9:58 Melissa Leo, who are you wearing? “Penney’s” Oh. 9:56 Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich in the same Oscarcast? What did we do to deserve this? Oh, by the way, Hugo just won Best Visual Effects. 9:54 Emma Stone single-handedly saved at least the last half-hour of the Oscars. Thanks you, Emma! 9:47 Gore Verbinski is an Academy Award-winner. That is all. 9:45 Check out Movieline’s Best Documentary Feature roundtable here . 9:42 Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow “introduce” Best Documentary Feature: Undefeated . Um, wow . Shocking upset over Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory . 9:40 The Oscars just jumped the circus elephant. 9:37 Thank you Miss Piggy and Kermit! Here’s my take on “What it Means to Go to the Bathroom.” 9:29 If the idea is that you power through the bullshit and montages and give the winners time to speak, then I am allllll for that. Oh, wait — Cirque Du Soleil coming up next. Never mind! 9:26 Hugo wins Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. My drinking games can’t keep up with this pace! Slow down, Tina Fey ! 9:24 Yay! Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall win Best Editing for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and have nothing to say. Nicely done, gentlemen. 9:22 The cults of the Oscars and Christopher Guest just died before my eyes. 9:17 Via @jenyamato at @movieline : “Is it too much to hope that one day the Oscars will get Keyboard Cat to play off the long-winded acceptance speeches?” AMEN, SISTER. 9:15 VIOLIN LADY! 9:14 Octavia Spencer wins Best Supporting Actress! Roll Tide! 9:10 Incidentally, what does Otis the Oscar Cat think this year’s awards so far? Ahem . 9:07 A Separation wins Best Foreign-Language Feature! Way to go, Iran! Imagine what you’ll do with nuclear weapons! 9:06 Loving Sandra Bullock right now. I needed Chinese by way of German, seriously. 9:01 Lovely film-fan montage. “I remember saying, ‘Can I please do that?'” No, Adam Sandler, you cannot. 9:00 OK, so the theme is to go to the movies. 8:58 “Ldkjhafdslkjfhakljdhfsalkjhdadjk!!!” Couldn’t have said it any better, Cameron and J-Lo! Oh, and The Iron Lady won Best Make-Up. 8:57 Another minute passed! This calls for the next shot. 8:56 Mark Bridges and The Artist win Best Costume Design. And first Harvey Weinstein mention! This calls for a shot. 8:54 Roland Emmerich was on the Oscars. Now I can die. #ConsiderEmmerich 8:52 We were off to such a nice, fast start! And now… this clip reel? “That’s when movies were actually made on film.” YOUR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER SHOT DIGITAL, ASSHOLE. 8:46 Nice to see Donatella Versace make Italy 2-for 2. Is it a Hugo night? 8:44 Robert Richardson! Huge upset! I think? I’m drunk. Second 3-D winner in three years, though — not bad. Check out his Movieline chatwith Jeff Cronenweth here . 8:43 Big night for you, Carl! 8:41 Did I miss the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close part of that song? Or was just the part where Crystal bombed? 8:39 Marty Scorsese’s daughter knows how pathetically weak this is. So much for the younger demographic! 8:37 How did we ever overlook the ” Chapter 11 Theater “? 8:35 I have no idea what is going on with this intro. Bourbon, please. 8:25 I feel like I’ve lived and/or worked a lifetime in the last 90 minutes. Only six hours to go!
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Movieline Liveblogs the 2012 Academy Awards (Plus: Complete Winners List!)
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You know that when two of the most respected pundits in all of Oscardom argue (within days of each other!) for curtailing both the epic Academy Awards season race and the ceremony in which it culminates, patience for all this crap is wearing thin. With that in mind — and also considering that the “race” for most of these categories ended weeks or months ago — who’s up for an Oscar Index lightning round? (The entire staff at Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics raises its hands.) OK, then — to the Index! The Final 9: 1. The Artist 2. The Help 3. The Descendants 4. Hugo 5. Moneyball 6. The Tree of Life 7. Midnight in Paris 8. The Daldry 9. War Horse Though we cannot rule out any of these underdogs’ mounting a behind-the-scenes charm blitz before Academy polls close next Tuesday, or the implications of the reminder that no movie about movies has ever won Best Picture , The Artist ‘s triumph at last weekend’s BAFTA Awards only tightened its seeming lock on the Best Picture Oscar. Still, let’s hear it for The Descendants , blazing the media afterburners for a desperately needed uptick. ( The Help , by comparison, got a forlorn-looking electronic billboard .) Also, don’t look now, but somebody actually dared to write thoughtfully about The Daldry . Not a minute too soon! Anyway, yes, Steve Pond , we’re all with you: Let’s just end this farce already. The Final 5: 1. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist 2. Alexander Payne, The Descendants 3. Martin Scorsese, Hugo 4. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life 5. Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris While the BAFTAs nudged Hazanavicius ever closer to Oscar glory and Sasha Stone contemplated the beneficiaries of a potential split vote — which is really the most that the pundits and campaigners engineering an anti- Artist backlash can hope for at this point — only Allen received a truly needle-moving endorsement this week. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Nick Jonas : “[F]or directing, I chose Midnight in Paris because Woody Allen is my favorite. He’s awesome.[… T]here would be a Woody Allen film on the tour bus every now and again. There’s always a Woody Allen movie on.” Now you know. The Final 5: 1. [tie] Viola Davis, The Help 1. [tie] Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady 3. Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn 4. Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 5. Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs “I hope we can all agree that when the Oscar conversation involves actresses as massively gifted as Meryl and Viola we all win,” wrote Nathaniel Rogers of the juiciest race going. “If only we could have a tie!” Haha, fine for now, but NO . Don’t give the Academy any ideas; it’ll totally screw up my Oscar-party ballot. That said, it’s quite a conversation, with the BAFTAs and the Berlinale’s gala tribute tilting momentum back Streep’s way. But if we’re to believe that the continued dissemination and discussion of these events among awards observers and the media cognoscenti are really the factors that persuade Oscar voters (and I guess we are to believe that, rightly or not — otherwise, what are we doing here?), then wouldn’t it follow that the continued dissemination of Davis’s boundless class, intellect and talent on the campaign trail would either match or supersede Streep’s own carefully cultivated hype? Take this incredible appearance that Davis and Help co-star Octavia Spencer recently made on Tavis Smiley’s show, an interview that’s been covered here , there and everywhere [transcript via The Carpetbagger ]: “I want you to win,” Mr. Smiley said, “but I’m ambivalent about what you’re winning for.” Ms. Davis was direct. “That very mind-set that you have and that a lot of African-Americans have is absolutely destroying the black artist,” she said. “The black artist cannot live in a revisionist place,” she added. “The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity, and humanity is messy. People are messy. Caucasian actors know that. We as African-American artists are more concerned with image and message and not execution,” she said, “which is why every time you see your images they’ve been watered down to the point where they are not realistic at all.” “My whole thing is, do I always have be noble?” she continued. “As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess.” The Academy has never really given any indication of having taste that would or could be moved by a case like that. But if its members in the actors branch in particular do have that taste, and they can hear her voice above the noise, then Davis may yet be the actress to beat. For now, meanwhile, it’s just too close to call. In other brief news, Mara got another profile-boosting close-up while Close — who’s facing such delightful headlines as ” Glenn Close: Next Queen of Oscar losers? may as well ask to just be awoken when it’s Feb. 27. Tough world. The Leading 5: 1. Jean Dujardin, The Artist 2. George Clooney, The Descendants 3. Brad Pitt, Moneyball 4. Demi
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The exhaustion levels are high and the confusion levels are even higher at Movieline’s Institute For the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics, where the white-coated minions responsible for the Oscar Index have struggled to assay the state of the awards race through this week’s persistent turbulence. Read on for their results.
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Oscar Index: Your Guess is As Good As Mine
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Tagged Actors, awards, berenice bejo, elizabeth-olsen, judi dench, max von sydow, michel hazanavicius, movieline, oscar, Sandra Bullock
It was probably just a matter of time before French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius broke through in the United States: His OSS 117 diptych of spy spoofs had already acquired something of an international audience, and his curiosity about Hollywood has grown alongside his reputation. But no one — least of all Hazanavicius himself — likely foresaw him breaking through with The Artist .
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Artist Director Michel Hazanavicius on Auteur Pride, Hollywood and Surviving the Awards Marathon
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We rarely think of as great movies as breezy ones: Breeziness is supposedly only for disposable entertainment, though achieving filmmaking greatness in the way we normally think of it — with impressive sets, heavy-duty acting and ultra-polished cinematography — is probably easier than brushing a movie with just the right amount of gold dust. Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist is a gold dust movie, a picture whose very boldness lies in its perceived lightness. This is a silent movie in black-and-white, and if it were only that, it would be a pleasant novelty. But The Artist isn’t a nostalgia trip, nor is it a scolding admonishment to honor the past. Instead, it’s a picture that romances its audience into watching in a new way — by, paradoxically, asking us to watch in an old way. The Artist is perhaps the most modern movie imaginable right now.
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REVIEW: The Artist’s Greatness Speaks Louder Than Words
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Lots of movie business to tweet about this weekend: Breaking Dawn, Part I made more money than is right for our national health, The Descendants scored a great opening in limited release, Happy Feet Two happened, and everyone is pretending to know who Natalie Wood is. Time to narrow down Twitter’s commentary to five of the weekend’s best movie-related quips. Robert Wagner, you are not culpable for the hilarity herein.
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Twit Wit: 5 Best Tweets About Breaking Dawn, The Descendants, Happy Feet Two, and Poor Natalie Wood
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A little over six months ago, before The Artist premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it might have been unthinkable to foresee what has since evolved into a very real possibility: Jean Dujardin, a bona fide movie star in his native France but relative unknown in the United States, is as likely as any contender to date to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Which would be surprising enough without The Artist being a black-and-white French import — a silent black-and-white French import.
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Silent is Golden: A Chat With The Artist’s Leading Man (and Oscar Frontrunner) Jean Dujardin
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The Artist , the silent film that has emerged since Cannes as one of the year’s presumptive Oscar front-runners , finally makes landfall in the States this weekend: Following tonight’s East Coast premiere at the New York Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius’s tribute to old Hollywood rolls out for audiences at the Hamptons Film Festival. And if today’s early reactions at the NYFF press screening were any indication, all signs point to success.
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Oscar-Chasing The Artist Starts Strong In NYFF, Hamptons Festival Tour
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