Evening all… apart from the live blog, which is now feeding over here, and our Twitter updates over here, we also havethis page dedicated to more lengthy updates throughout the Oscar evening. We will also update this page with all of the winners as they are announced. Pan down for the full nominees…
UPDATES:
0440: That’s it. Congrats to The Artist and Hugo… easily the two big winners on the evening. It’s 440am here in the UK. Good morning…. Stay tuned to THN tomorrow for more Oscar coverage, For me, I’m off to bed…
0438: And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to: The Artist. It’s their night in the end…
0437: “There are so many reasons why we love going to the movies. Here are nine of them.” Cruise.
0436: The nominees:
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
War Horse
0435: Tom Cruise presents Best Picture.
Who will it be… Hugo, or The Artist? This is it folks… the showdown
0430: And the Oscar goes to… Meryl Streep for THE IRON LADY. Standing ovation.
0425: Colin Firth, last year’s Best Actor winner for THE KING’S SPEECH is on stage to present Best Actress. The nominees…
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Viola Davis – The Help
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
0420: And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to…. Jean Dujardin for THE ARTIST!
0416: Natalie Portman is on stage to present Best Actor! Here are the nominees.
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney – The Descendants
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Demián Bichir – A Better Life
0406: The ‘In Memorium’ montage is classy and elegant, saying goodbye to the greats that have passed away in the last 12 months. Truly touching. Steve Jobs included.
0400: Meryl Streep is on stage to present the Honorary Oscars: Dick Smith, James Earl Jones, and Oprah Winfrey. Dished out at a ceremony a couple of weeks ag, although all are in attendance tonight?
0355: Best Director goes to Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist. The Artists strikes back! Will it go all the way?
0353: It’s time for the big ones. Best Achievement In Directing:
Alexander Payne – The Descendants
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick – Tree of Life
Michael Douglas presents the award.
0347: Next its the other Bridesmaids (forget names, apologies), who present Best Animated Short to: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (dirs. William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg)
0341: Best Live Action Short goes to Northern Irish film THE SHORE.Presented by Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne from BRIDEMAIDS. They also present Best Documentary Feature to SAVING FACE.
0330: Original Screenplay: Woody Allen for MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, but guess what; he’s not there to accept. Well done all the same Mr. Allen. We dug that movie!
0327: Angelina Jolie is on stage to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The award goes to Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash for THE DESCENDANTS. First of the night for the film.
0320: Best Original Song goes to Man or Muppet from THE MUPPETS! Congrats Bret McKenzie! Presented with hilarity by Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
0316: Penelople Cruz and Owen Wilson, two Woody Allen alumnis present Best Original Score. It’s another for THE ARTIST! Some fine competition, including two nominations for John Williams. Congrats Ludovic Bource.
0303: Melissa Leo presents Christopher Plummer with the Best Supporting Actor award for BEGINNERS, who has apparently been rehearsing his acceptance speech since he was in his mother’s womb. He’s the oldest actor to win an Oscar… ever.
0258: Emma Stone is on stage being totally adorable with Ben Stiller to present Best Visual Effects. HUGO takes it, taking their haul to five for the night, surprisingly beating off stiff competition from RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and the last Potter.
0249: The Best Animated Feature Oscar goes to Rango and Gore Verbinski! “This is Crazy.” – Verbinski.
0248: Chris Rock is on stage to present Best Animated Feature.
0243: Gwenyth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. come out to present Best Documentary. It goes to UNDEFEATED.
0235: Cirque Du Soleil take to the stage to pay tribute to the movies. Lots of acrobatics, jumping, splits(ing), falling, tubling, trapesing – Clooney loves it.
0229: HUGO makes it four as it scores Best Sound Mixing too.
0226: Bradley Cooper and Tina Fey take to the stage for Film and Sound Editing. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO gets Best Film Editing while HUGO makes it three with Sound Editing.
0214: Cockney Chris Bale is on stage to present Best Supporting Actress. The Oscar goes to: Octavia Spencer – THE HELP
0210: Sandra Bullock presents Best Foreign Language Film to: A SEPERATION (dir. Asghar Farhadi – Iran)
0202: Courtesy of Perez Hilton, here’s Billy’s opening montage in full:
0157: Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz take to the stage to present Best Costume Design and Best make-Up. Mark Bridges wins for Best Costume for THE ARTIST and Brits Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland win best Make-Up for THE IRON LADY.
0149: The first two awards of the night are dished out. Tom Hanks presents Best Cinematography gong to Robert Robertson for HUGO and Production Design to Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, also to HUGO.
0140: Billy Crystal kicks off proceedings with a nifty montage of film clips with him in them. Clever boy. Followed by some light jokes and a song and dance number.
0123: My predictions for the top five (Paul) – Picture THE ARTIST, Actress Streep, Actor Clooney, Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, Supporting Actor Chris Plummer, Director Scorsese…
0047: If you’ve been following our coverage on the live feed, you’ll know that Sacha Baron Cohen flung an urn full of ashes over Ryan Seacrest, on live TV. Here’s the video.
WINNERS IN BOLD
PICTURE:
The Artist
Moneyball
The Descendants
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Help
Hugo
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
War Horse
DIRECTOR:
Alexander Payne – The Descendants
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
Terrence Malick – Tree of Life
ACTOR:
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney – The Descendants
Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Demián Bichir – A Better Life
ACTRESS:
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Viola Davis – The Help
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Glenn Close – Albert Nobbs
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Max Von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Berenice Bejo – The Artist
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer – The Help
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo – Bridesmaids
J.C. Chandor – Margin Call
Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – The Descendants
John Logan – Hugo
Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillian – Moneyball
George Clooney – The Ides of March
Peter Straughan & Bridget O’Connor – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ANIMATED FEATURE:
A Cat in Paris (dirs. Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol)
Chico & Rita (dirs. Tono Errando & Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (dir. Jennifer Yuh)
Puss in Boots (dir. Chris Miller)
Rango (dir. Gore Verbsinki)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Bullhead (dir. Michael R. Roskam – Belgium)
Monsieur Lazhar (dir. Philippe Falardeau – Canada)
A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi – Iran)
Footnote (dir. Joseph Cedar – Israel)
In Darkness (dir. Agnieszka Holland – Poland)
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
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Pina
Hell and Back Again
If A Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Paradise Lost 3
Undefeated
DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
The Barber of Birmingham (dirs. Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday)
God Is the Bigger Elvis (dir. Rebecca Cammisa)
Incident in New Baghdad (dir. James Spione)
Saving Face (dir. Daniel Junge)
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (dir. Lucy Walker)
ANIMATED SHORT:
Dimanche/Sunday (dir. Patrick Doyon)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (dirs. William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg)
La Luna (dir. Enrico Casarosa)
A Morning Stroll (dir. Grant Orchard)
Wild Life (dirs. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby)
LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
Pentecost (dir. Peter McDonald)
Raju (dir. Max Zähle)
The Shore (dir. Terry George)
Time Freak (dir. Andrew Bowler)
Tuba Atlantic (dir. Hallvar Witzø)
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
ART DIRECTION:
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
COSTUME DESIGN:
Anonymous
The Artist
Hugo
Jane Eyre
W.E.
MAKEUP:
Albert Nobbs
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Iron Lady
FILM EDITING:
The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Moneyball
SOUND MIXING:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Moneyball
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
SOUND EDITING:
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse
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
ORIGINAL SONG:
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets
“Real in Rio” from Rio
