Oscar Icing

Here are the frosted highlights of my Oscar night. 

I thought the opening number was pretty funny. Our writer, Dan Harmon, who we're working with on our pilot wrote all of Jackman's stuff so perhaps I'm a little biased. But I thought Hugh did a good job with it. 

 Really liked the made-in-my-garage-last-night look. Craigslist dancers, "I didn't see The Reader" dance, moveable baby curious Ben hands - All pretty dang funny. You can watch the full  opening here.

And despite the fact that I don't always like Anne Hathaway too much, I do think she's a pretty funny woman and did a good job here. I was a fan of her Nixon.... haha, that sounds slightly innapropriate.

Ok... and that's where the musical numbers should've ended. The Baz Luhrman monstrosity was pretty unnecessary. And Hugh's "The musical is BACK!!!" line seemed, eh, not true. What musical? Mamma Mia? And a bunch of old musicals you sang that were made years ago? I didn't get it. And Penelope Cruz didn't either. (They cut to her making a very confused face after Hugh pronounced it the year of musicals).

I think these guys stole the show. 

"A great man once said, 'To write is to live forever'. That man is now dead." 

"Don't fall in love with me." 

PS - Tina Fey looked amazingly awesome! I loved her dress.

Who knew Dustin Lance Black looked like this?! What is he, 16? What a cutie! His acceptance speech for "Milk" as Best Original Screenplay was probably my favorite of the night. (yeah, and he's actually 35). 

Jenn, why are you looking so pained and unhappy? You're presenting at the Oscars!

Oh... Um, perhaps it's because you're standing RIGHT IN FRONT of your ex-husband and the woman he left you for. Eesh. Kind of awkward. And way for ABC to capitalize on it by showing like 4 reaction shots of the Ice Queen in her front row seat while Jenn presented Best Animation. I don't think any of us in my apt said, "OH MY GOD" more than we did during these 5 minutes of the show.

My winner for Cutest Acceptance Speech is definitely Kunio Kato for "La Maison en Petits Cubes" as Best Animated Short. 

"'It's so heavy,' said Kato of the award. A native of Japan, he struggled with his English in good humor before a star-studded audience. 'Thank you very much. Thank you, my supporters. Thank you, all my staff. Thank you, academy... Thank you, my company. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.'" 

Hahaha, I died laughing. A for adorable. 

Winner for Craziest Dude From a Documentary Film - Philippe Petit.

"The shortest speech in Oscar history. Yes! But I always break the rule. I break my own rules very quickly..."—Philippe Petit

I really enjoyed the performances and was happy to see them collaborate the Best Song nominees. You can watch it all here. Feel free to skip the parts with Zak Efron. Jai Ho is sweeeeet.

"You look like you work in a Hasidic meth lab." 

– Natalie Portman, to Ben Stiller (dressed as Joaquin Phoenix), while presenting Best Cinematography

Haha, nuff said.

Apparently, you had to bet $2000 to just make $100 off of Heath's win for Best Supporting Actor last night. That's how certain the odds were last night. Did anyone think he wouldn't get it? Let me know if you didn't! I thought the acceptance speech by his family was very heartfelt and is going to be one of those Oscar moments people talk about for the next 10 years. 

I was half surprised to see Penn take home Best Actor. I thought his politically-powered speech was appropriate because of the role and liked his opener: "I want to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often." But I felt super bad for his wife, Robyn. He didn't thank her and she sat just beaming with joy for her husband, even though it's obvious that she's the last thing on his mind. 

Favorite, Albeit, Most Predictable Moment of the Night:

Kate's win - and her line about practicing her Oscar speech in the bathroom with a shampoo bottle when she was  8 years old. Priceless.

Also, you had to love her dad, with his fantastic whistle. :) He had a pretty cool hat on too!

Besides these little highlights, I thought the program was bloated and it kinda dragged. Someone needs to hijack this event and give it the overhaul it so desperately needs. No huge surprises this year and 3 1/2 hours long. Yikes... But you gotta love them for trying - bringing Robert Pattinson on to present definitely got me interested for a hot minute!