Just like the Grammys blog- we had a BLAST tonight!!!!!!!! Thanks for following along——–
– Dave
UPDATE (1051PM)- Best Picture..as presented by Jack Nicholson and First Lady Michelle Obama (from The White House)…ARGO!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE (1044PM)- Meryl Streep pulls her dress out of her “rear end” and presents Best Actor to Daniel Day-Lewis. He is the FIRST actor to win 3 Oscars in a Leading Role.
UPDATE (1040pm)- Best Actress- Jennifer Lawrence…everyone predicted her to win.
UPDATE (1033PM)- Best Director- Ang Lee “Life of Pi”…another shocker…
UPDATE (1028PM)- RODEO HOUSTON TICKETS TIME! First person to go over to our f’book page and write YEE HAW under the Quentin Tarantino winning post (as a comment) wins! GO!
UPDATE (1025)- Original Screenplay..winner is Quentin Tarantino “Django Unchained”..
UPDATE (1023)- Best Adapted Screenplay- Argo. They better stay on the stage…more Awards to come!
UPDATE (1016)- And now- Adele has an Oscar!!! “Skyfall”- best song!
UPDATE (1009) – Best Score- Life of Pi! Hooray! I got one right!
UPDATE (1001PM)- Barbra Streisand. LEGEND.
UPDATE (956PM)- In Memoriam. So sad.
UPDATE (948PM)– Production design- Lincoln
UPDATE (935pm)– ADELE TIME!!!! Been waiting all night for this!
UPDATE (932PM)- Best Editing…Argo…and now begins the march to Best Picture for Argo. Generally, when the winner of this category is also nominated for Best Picture, it wins.
UPDATE (931PM)– Matt David wins! Another pair of tickets at 1025pm!
UPDATE (930PM)– READY TO WIN MORE RODEO HOUSTON TICKETS? The FIRST person that writes “SALLY FIELD SHOULD HAVE WON” as a comment in the Anne Hathaway thread (on our f’book page) wins! Oh…we are having some fun here….
UPDATE (919PM)- Christopher Plummer presents Best Supporting Actress- Anne Hathaway…Sally Field should have won.
UPDATE (914)- Best Sound Editing…tie…?… Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall.
UPDATE (912PM) Best Sound Mixing goes to Les Miserables…as presented by Mark Wahlberg…and TED
UPDATE (904PM)- Les Miserables live performance….one word- WOW.
UPDATE (853PM)- John Travolta introduces the “Musicals” tribute part of the show. Les Mis & Chicago & Dreamgirls..interestingly- Les Miserables is the first musical nominated for best picture since Chicago.
UPDATE (850PM) Amour wins foreign language film…no shocker here.
UPDATE (843PM)- Ben Affleck presents best documentary to Searching for Sugarman….great film!
UPDATE (835PM)- Documentary Short Subject goes to Inocente. I didn’t see it either.
UPDATE (832PM)- Best action short film….”Curfew” p.s. Phillip Alexander Pedrosa WINS our first Rodeo Houston tickets! More coming up at 930pm!
UPDATE (830PM)- TIME TO WIN! The FIRST person to write “Oscars” as a comment on the BackstageOL.com f’book page UNDER THE SHIRLEY BASSEY POST…WINS! GO!
UPDATE (822pm)- James Bond tribute! AWESOME! P.s. Rodeo tickets are coming up!
UPDATE (819PM)- Best makeup- Les Miserables!
UPDATE (817PM)– Best costume design goes to Anna Karenina (terrible film)…should have been Les Mis….ugggh.
UPDATE (810pm)- Visual effects award goes to “Life of Pi”..again, well deserved. The Avengers cast needs to go now….it’s not working.
UPDATE (805PM)- The cast of The Avengers present Best Cinematography to “Life of Pi”…well deserved. This film is beautiful!
UPDATE (755pm)- Best Animated Short film- Paperman…hooray! Got it right. We probably could have done without that long introduction.
Best Animated Feature film- Brave! Good for Mark Andrews!
UPDATE (747pm)- First award…Best Supporting Actor…Christoph Waltz…WOW…UPSET…I picked Tommy Lee Jones.
UPDATE (735PM)- I’m laughing…..it’s funny so far. P.s. We will be doing the first Rodeo Houston tickets at 830pm Central.
UPDATE (730PM)- WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE LIVE JOURNAL/BLOG…keep an eye here…we will be giving away Rodeo Houston tickets tonight-
UPDATE (532PM)- We don’t “officially” start the live blogging until later tonight (730pm Central)..but I wanted to jump on and share my ballot- here are my Oscar predictions-
Best Picture- Argo
Director- Spielberg (Lincoln)
Actor- Daniel Day Lewis
Actress- Jennifer Lawrence
Supporting Actor- Tommy Lee Jones
Supporting Actress- Sally Field
Adapted Screenplay- Lincoln
Original Screenplay-Zero Dark Thirty
Film Editing- Argo
Cinematography- Life of Pi
Production Design- Les Miserables
Score- Life of Pi
Song- “Skyfall” Adele
Costumes- Les Miserables
Makeup/Hair- Les Miserables
Foreign- Amour
Visual Effects- Life of Pi
Sound Mixing- Les Miserables
Sound Editing- Zero Dark Thirty
Live Action Short Film- Curfew
Animated Short Film- Paperman
Documentary Short- Kings Point
Documentary Feature- Searching For Sugarman
Animated Feature- Wreck It Ralph
This is where you want to be later tonight as we here at BackstageOL.com will be sharing our thoughts and perspectives on the 2013 Oscars.
Who won? Who should have won? How were the performances? How is Seth MacFarlane doing as host? We’ll be “blogging” along.
PLUS- at some point during the show….we will be giving away TWO pairs of Rodeo Houston tickets. Keep an eye here on THIS page as you enjoy the Oscars tonight- with BackstageOL.com.
We will also be posting thoughts and taking your comments on our Facebook page- click here to go there and “LIKE” us! We’ll be giving away a pair of tickets there as well!
