“She knows that I know that she knows that I know the whole scene is deliberate, right down to the supporting players — assistants, various friends, family — arranged here and there around the pool, ready to do a star’s bidding… That Lopez has dared to try and pull off such a time-honored Hollywood gambit as Rising-Star-Interviewed-By-The-Pool is in keeping with her overall strategy of playing Big. Big is Jennifer Lopez ‘s forte.” The jury may be out on Lopez’s maybe-wardrobe malfunction onstage at the Oscars, but you can treat yourself with Stephen Rebello’s full 1998 Movieline must-read , stat.
Sunday night’s show saw the oldest winner of an acting award and three-ish feet of Angelina Jolie’s right leg. By John Mitchell Christopher Plummer wins at the 84th Annual Academy Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images The 84th Academy Awards , were a numbers game. We were treated to the oldest acting winner in Oscar history (82-year-old Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer); the most-nominated actor ever, Meryl Streep (17 nods!), took home her third award; and in just minutes, Angelina Jolie’s leg tallied way more Twitter followers than you’ll ever have. Taking a look back, plenty of fantastic statistics stick out. From the long trek to Hollywood for Parisian Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin to the many languages spoken by winners at the ceremony, check out our helpful, by-the-numbers guide to Sunday night’s Oscars.
Hollywood’s biggest winners this weekend weren’t confined just to the Kodak Theater (or whatever they call it now). A new-release frame well-known for its particularly aromatic qualities nevertheless had its success stories, led by an elite squad of Navy SEALs and our old friend Tyler Perry. Naturally. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Act of Valor Gross: $24,700,000 (new) Screens: 3,039 (PSA $8,128) Weeks: 1 As predicted, bad reviews couldn’t keep the flag-waving faithful away. Meanwhile, go ahead and predict the second-week percentage drop in the comments. I’ll say 62 percent. 2. Good Deeds Gross: $16,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,132 (PSA $7,505) Weeks: 1 Clearly needed more headshots — preferably with Madea doing the shooting. 3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Gross: $13,475,000 ($76,731,000) Screens: 3,350 (PSA: $4,022) Weeks: 3 (Change: -32.1%) 4. Safe House Gross: $11,400,000 ($98,100,000) Screens: 3,052 (PSA $3,735) Weeks: 3 (Change: -51.8%) Both Journey 2 and Safe House continue to hold remarkably well after three weeks of release. Which is to say: Who is still seeing these? Especially on the weekend everyone’s supposedly catching up on Oscar contenders? 5. The Vow Gross: $26,600,000 ($88,527,000) Screens: 2,958 (PSA $8,993) Weeks: 2 (Change: -35.4%) Seriously, I’m asking. 8. Wanderlust Gross: $6,600,000 (new) Screens: 2,002 (PSA $3,297) Weeks: 1 It could always get worse , Jennifer Aniston! You could have been… 9. Gone Gross: $5,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,186 (PSA $2,287) Weeks: 1 …Amanda Seyfried. Or maybe it couldn’t get worse? That’s fine, though: Box office aside, I know a certain distinction that nobody can take away from either of these bottom dwellers. Congrats! [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Either animal obsessions are instinctive to this awards season, or someone’s been unduly influenced by Movieline favorites Uggie and Otis the Oscar Cat . There is no other real takeaway from the latest animated news video from the folks at NMA, which makes nifty work of summarizing an utterly depressing, anticlimactic Academy Awards evening that “clocked in at just under 10 hours.” Have a look and see if your memory matches theirs. [ NMA ]
Earlier I posted a whole bunch of pictures from last night’s Academy Awards show, but I thought I’d give latina super MILF Sofia Vergara her very own post. She’s that hot. Here she is at the Vanity Fair party with her big beautiful breasts falling out of her classy evening gown. I can barely understand a word this woman says most of the time, but I would marry her in a second. I’m sure we could find a sexy young translator to live with us. Hot.
Last night’s 84th Annual Academy Awards were an exceptionally tame affair full of silent-film nostalgia and beige gowns. If you didn’t watch it, you didn’t miss much. Maybe that’s why the media is going nuts over a supposed nip slip from Jennifer Lopez as she presented an award with Cameron Diaz last night. The Skin Staff saw the supposed wardrobe malfunction as it happened, and after going back and carefully SKINspecting the footage, we have determined that that, ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen), is nothing but…. nipple tape . Yes, what you are seeing is what J-Lo uses to keep her Jennies from the Block inside her gown, not the areola itself. You be the judge with video of the “wardrobe malfunction” and Jennifer Lopez nip slip pics after the jump!
Nine-time host pokes fun at Jonah Hill and Christian Bale and gets a kiss from George Clooney. By Ryan J. Downey Billy Crystal performs at the 84th annual Academy Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images There were jokes about old relatives, bar mitzvahs and other tried-and-true familiar shticks from the only comedian to host the Oscars nearly as many times as Bob Hope, but Billy Crystal came armed with a surprising amount of some Ricky Gervais-style bite, too. The veteran comedic actor’s ninth turn as host of the Academy Awards followed a string of headline-making turmoil behind the scenes. Crystal was drafted to replace Eddie Murphy, who walked after producer Brett Ratner (who had directed Murphy in “Tower Heist”) abruptly left the show following his use of a homophobic slur at a Q&A. Producer Brian Grazer eventually stepped in. The show began with two Crystal staples: a montage of clips from the Best Picture nominees featuring the former “Saturday Night Live” castmember and a musical number that jokingly referenced several folks seated in the audience. They were moments that were as rewarding, if predictable, as the sweep “The Artist” made of several major categories on Sunday. A few months ago, somewhat controversial Golden Globes host Gervais tweeted a picture of him and his Academy Awards counterpart together and wrote, “Just told Billy Crystal he’d better not use any of my holocaust or pedophile material at The Oscars. He agreed (true).” And while the opening sketch did include a Hitler reference and blackface (in the form of the comedian’s well-established Sammy Davis Jr. impression), Crystal mostly kept it tame, recruiting Justin Bieber, George Clooney and Tom Cruise for cameos. Here are the top five Billy Crystal jokes from the 84th Academy Awards, as we saw them: 5. In the montage, Crystal awakes to find himself in a hospital scene from “The Descendants” being kissed by Clooney. Later in the show, he looked at Clooney’s girlfriend, Stacy Keibler, and quipped: “You’re a lucky girl. He’s a very good kisser.” 4. Before Christian Bale took the stage, Crystal began: “A ‘Dark Knight,’ an ‘American Psycho,’ a charismatic crack addict. You’ll get to choose one on Super Tuesday.” It was a swipe at the Republican presidential nominees, sure, but Crystal soon zeroed in more closely on the next presenter, referencing that infamous viral rant from 2009. “Academy Award winner — and be careful if you’re in his eyeline — Christian Bale .” 3. During the song, Crystal brought up Jonah Hill’s tremendous post-“Moneyball” reduction in physical size. “It’s great you shed weight,” he sang to the actor. “But I think you should know, there’s cupcakes after the show.” 2. In recent weeks, news hit that the Kodak Theater would be changing its name, due to the longtime sponsor’s recent financial troubles. “We’re here at the beautiful Chapter 11 Theater,” Crystal said, in one of many related jokes. 1. Much like Gervais’ digs at the Globes, the Oscars themselves were the host’s biggest target: “Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other,” he smiled. What was your favorite Billy Crystal Oscar joke? Leave your comment below! The MTV Movies team has the 2012 Oscars covered! Keep it locked at MTV.com all night and beyond for updates on the night’s big winners and the best red-carpet fashion . Join the live conversation by tweeting @MTVNews with the hashtag #Oscars. Related Videos Oscars 2012: Show Highlights Related Photos Oscars 2012: Winners Oscars 2012: Parties Oscars 2012: The Main Show
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!
It’s Oscar Sunday! Keep track of your Oscar pool ballots with Movieline’s list of Academy Award winners, updated throughout the telecast — and chime in below with your thoughts on which of Hollywood’s brightest most deserved their statuettes, who gave the best acceptance speeches (and runners-up-caught-on-camera faces), and which were the biggest surprises of the night. Aaaaand The Artist performed as expected (read Movieline’s review here ), taking Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Costume Design and Best Score, with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo running a close second on the night with five awards of its own. And Uggie made an appearance! What were your favorite wins and speeches of the night? Winners highlighted in bold below. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist Jeff Cronenweth, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Robert Richardson, Hugo Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life Janusz Kaminski, War Horse BEST ART DIRECTION Laurence Bennett, Robert Gould, The Artist Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Hugo Rick Carter, Lee Sandales, War Horse BEST COSTUME DESIGN Mark Bridges, The Artist Michael O’Connor, Jane Eyre Sandy Powell, Hugo Lisy Christl, Anonymous Arianne Phillips, W.E. BEST MAKEUP Albert Nobbs Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The Iron Lady BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE Bullhead , Belgium Footnote , Israel In Darkness , Poland Monsieur Lazhar , Canada A Separation , Iran BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Berenice Bejo, The Artist Jessica Chastain, The Help Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs Octavia Spencer, The Help BEST FILM EDITING Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist Kevin Tent, The Descendants Thelma Schoonmaker, Hugo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Christopher Tellefsen, Moneyball BEST SOUND EDITING Drive The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo Transformers: Dark of the Moon War Horse BEST SOUND MIXING The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo Moneyball Transformers: Dark of the Moon War Horse BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Hell and Back Again If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Pina Undefeated BEST ANIMATED FILM FEATURE A Cat in Paris Chico and Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots Rango BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Real Steel Rise of the Planet of the Apes Transformers: Dark of the Moon BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christopher Plummer, Beginners Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonah Hill, Moneyball Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn Nick Nolte, Warrior BEST ORIGINAL SCORE John Williams, The Adventures of Tintin Ludovic Bource, The Artist Howard Shore, Hugo Alberto Iglesias, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Williams, War Horse BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets “Real in Rio,” Rio BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, Moneyball George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, The Ides of March John Logan, Hugo Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris J.C. Chandor, Margin Call Asghar Farhadi, A Separation Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT Pentecost Raju The Shore Time Freak Tuba Atlantic BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement God is the Bigger Elvis Incident in New Baghdad Saving Face The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom BEST ANIMATED SHORT Dimanche/Sunday The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore La Luna A Morning Stroll Wild Life BEST DIRECTOR Woody Allen Midnight in Paris Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life Alexander Payne, The Descendants Martin Scorsese, Hugo BEST ACTOR Demián Bechir, A Better Life George Clooney, The Descendants Jean Dujardin, The Artist Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Brad Pitt, Moneyball BEST ACTRESS Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs Viola Davis, The Help Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn BEST PICTURE The Artist The Descendants Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris The Tree Of Life Moneyball War Horse Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitt
The champagne’s been tippled, the winners are all celebrating, and somewhere Uggie ‘s getting a LOT of sausages. So let’s relive the highlights of the 2012 Academy Awards show! Click through for Movieline’s gallery and name your favorite moment from the big night. Was it Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer ‘s emotional acceptance speech? Or Descendants co-scripter Jim Rash’s impromptu Angelina Jolie impersonation? Those bits and more in vivid photographic detail after the jump! Click to launch the Oscars 2012 gallery . Miss the show? Relive the best (and worst) of the 2012 Academy Awards in Movieline’s liveblog .
