No shit...

Um, wow, nice jab there. I am not a fan of Heston's or Woods acting or political aspirations, so way to assume.

I have no problem with Penn speaking his mind. However, when he makes disparaging remarks about the Oscars and the Academy, the very same people who vote you in, you deserve nothing.

I wonder if the EE of ROTK will include footage and/or a documentary leading up to the Oscars?

You guys can watch the live stream from the backstage too off of www.oscars.com...

Poor Bill...he's done so much over the years, he deserved it. Maybe I'll watch one of his movies now in his honor

well the women look great tonight

I imagine they will have Oscar clips . . . maybe as Easter Eggs (Like the MTV awards)

I guess maybe Peter Jackson will followup with "The Return of King Kong"

Young and old

This kind of doesn't have anything to do with this years awards but i figure this is the time to ask it, does anyone know how close there ever was to a tie in the voting and what happens if there is?

Bill was thinking about fighting Sean Penn, but reconsidered and just bitchslapped Billy Crystal...

They give it to the least deserving nominee, they did tonight with the actors anyway.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Sean Penn
MYSTIC RIVER

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Tim Robbins
MYSTIC RIVER

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Charlize Theron
MONSTER

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Renée Zellweger
COLD MOUNTAIN

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
FINDING NEMO
Andrew Stanton

ART DIRECTION
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
Russell Boyd

COSTUME DESIGN
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

DIRECTING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Peter Jackson

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
THE FOG OF WAR
Errol Morris and Michael Williams

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
CHERNOBYL HEART
Maryann DeLeo

FILM EDITING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Jamie Selkirk

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
Canada
Directed by Denys Arcand

HONORARY AWARD
HONORARY AWARD
Blake Edwards

MAKEUP
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Richard Taylor
Peter King

MUSIC (SCORE)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Howard Shore

MUSIC (SONG)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
"Into the West"
Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox

BEST PICTURE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
HARVIE KRUMPET
Adam Elliot

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
TWO SOLDIERS
Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks

SOUND EDITING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
Richard King

SOUND MIXING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Written by Sofia Coppola

some more live coverage on E!

Thanks for the recap Calculon.

Anyways, I'd like to see that Bellville movie, it looks damn interesting.

Geez, great awards this year but what a boring show IMHO. Absolutely no surprises except perhaps the Blake Edwards bit. Borrrrring.

Sophia Coppola has that weird Billy Idol sneer going on.

Fixed.

Listening to Sophia write LiT, I hope no one takes her style of writing a screenplay to heart:

Start the beginning, find an ending, and just write a bunch of stuff to fill in the middle to make it long enough for a feature film.

Closing for length. If you want to continue talking about the Oscars, please do so in the thread in Movie Talk:

http://dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread....hreadid=350164