Best Original Score Oscar goes to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel. Screwed for the third or fourth time by Sasha Stone and Tom O’Neil!

Ennio Morricone….everyone loves you also.

Jerry Seinfeld announcing the Best Feature Documentary Oscar..”these incredibly depressing movies”…I missed the point of that “the deal is, you rip us off” joke…and the Oscar goes to An Inconvenient Truth! Not a surprise but a fluttery pleasure wave anyway. Al Gore‘s speech at the end was noble, perfect…what a guy. He’s so much more tonight than he’s ever been before. Al, everyone loves you, and everyone (even a sizable portion of the right-wing denial brigade) is on the team.

Jennifer Hudson has won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar! A great lady with great pipes! And she’s giving a great speech. Good girl.

The Lives of Others has won Best Foreign Language Film! The astonishing has happened! And there’s so much traffic on the server I can barely post anything.

The Best Visual Effects Oscar is supposed to go to….fantastic drug-use-reference joke by Robert Downey! The Visual FX Oscar is supposed to go to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. And the Oscar goes to Pirates! Superb work done by all, and also by the great Bill Nighy as Davy Jones.

The Best Cinematography Oscar is going to go to Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men. Oh my goodness….it’s gone to Guillermo Novarro for Pan’s Labyrinth! What’s going on here? “Chivo” was supposed to be a lock. Whatever…not a tragedy. Pan’s Labyrinth was beautifully shot, but I don’t get it. I’m not going to win the Oscar pool.

Sherry Lansing….fine. I’m hitting the head. I’m hungry anyway. Ellen and Clint…that’s funny. The digital camera routine with Steven Spielberg….funny. Ellen si a great host. As good as Johnny Carson was in the old days…as good as Billy Crystal in the mid ’90s.

That Wes Anderson American Express commercial is still brilliant, especially that moment when Wes starts to talk and suddenly we hear the sound of gunfire — BLAM! — and Wes hesitates for only a second and then keeps going.

Best Adapted Screenpay Oscar presented by Helen Mirren and Tom Hanks, and it goes to Wiliam Monahan for The Departed. Totally expected. The guy needs to cut down on the cheeseburgers and the onion rings and the vodka gimlets, but I really loved/love what he wrote. And he has a soothing gentle voice.

Why is Jack Nicholson‘s head shaved? Britney Spears empathy?

The Oscar for Costume Design goes to Milena Canonero for Marie Antoinette. Screwed again by Sasha Stone and Tom O Neil!~