Storyline Edit. You're Invited. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Melissa Leo became the first person to use the "F-word" during an Academy Award acceptance speech. User reviews 11 Review. Top review. I didn't hear anything about Melissa Leo's self-promotion campaign.
I only saw Melissa Leo in "The Fighter". Her character made me feel as if I was walking on eggshells, and so she certainly deserved her win. As I understand it, a lot of people were irritated that the expected winners all won, and that James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted: the common meme is that their opening montage was funny but they fell flat afterwards. Well I liked their performance; it was especially cool when Franco appeared dressed as Marilyn Monroe.
I've seen very few of the nominees, so my judgment was biased, although I did consider "The King's Speech" the best choice. All in all, I liked the show. Jacki Weaver was the one most deserving of the win but the award goes to Melissa Leo for "The Fighter.
Only Kirk Douglas could get away with opening the envelope and then stopping to recount some silly story just to prolong the actresses' agony. Leo partially flashed the audience on the way up the stairs women need to be careful how high up the slits in their dresses go , then she asked Kirk what he was doing later that evening, and then dropped an f-bomb in her acceptance speech.
She rambled on past the point of being amusing but after the f-bomb they didn't dare give her the hook for going over on the time allotted for acceptance speeches. Justin Bieber The award went to "The Lost Thing," and amazingly, it was actually the best one nominated.
But I have to wonder why they let Melissa Leo go on and on but they give the hook to the animated short winners — Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. This is one thing that really drives me crazy. The Academy talks about how the awards pay honor to the creative people who make films but they refuse to allow these people their brief moment in the sun.
I would much rather have the winners — especially when it's two people — get an extra 30 seconds to give thanks rather than have pointless montages. Best Animated Feature was no surprise. It was "Toy Story 3. Do you really think he means that? Will the interns in the office get to take the award home for a night? Why do winners make such silly hyperbolic statements? Next up, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem were introduced and appeared in classy white tux jackets.
Male eye candy. He invoked the name of another great writer as he accepted his award: "It's impossible to describe what it feels like to be handed the same award that was given to Paddy Chayefsky 35 years ago for another movie with 'network' in the title. His was an original screenplay, this is an adaptation of a book by Ben Mezrich, so I'm accepting this on his behalf as well.
Maybe that was because he hails from TV. He opened his acceptance speech charmingly, "My father always said to me, I would be a late bloomer. I believe I am the oldest person to win this particular award. We have a voice, we have been heard, thanks to you the Academy. As you'd expect the two attractive hosts went through quite a few costume changes. The best was when Hathaway came out in a man's tux she didn't rock it like Marlene Dietrich did though and Franco came out in a dress!
In fact he was dressed like Marilyn from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. After seeing so many atrocious dresses on the red carpet it was refreshing to see the always elegant Helen Mirren looking fabulous. Glad to see Bier win. Reese Witherspoon presented the award for Best Supporting Actor to He gave props to the real Dicky Eklund, the character he played in "The Fighter," and remembered Eklund's website where people could go but then he seemed to forget his wife's name.
Good thing he has that golden Oscar to go to bed with. Continuing with a lack of imagination, Aussies Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman were paired to give us a history of movie sound or rather a history of John Williams' scores. Sound Mixing co-winner Lora Hirschberg might have made something of Academy history by kissing her "wife" in the acceptance speech her colleague Gary Rizzo gave thanks to "our wonderful wives" so I'm assuming that's who she kissed before running up to the stage.
It was nice to see her moment of celebration. Hollywood is well known for unintentional irony so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to see one of the worst dressed actresses at the Oscars give the award for Best Costume. Andrew Weisblum. Pamela Martin. Winner In a Better World. Outside the Law Hors-la-loi. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
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Darla K. Anderson, Producer. Winner The Lost Thing. Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann. The Gruffalo. Jakob Schuh and Max Lang. Let's Pollute. Geefwee Boedoe. Madagascar, carnet de voyage Madagascar, a Journey Diary. Bastien Dubois. Winner God of Love. The Confession. The Crush. Michael Creagh. Na Wewe. Ivan Goldschmidt. Wish Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite. Tom Myers and Michael Silvers.
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Music Original Score - A. Film Editing - Jon Harris. Makeup - Adrien Morot. Foreign Language Film - Mexico. Film Editing - Andrew Weisblum. Directing - Darren Aronofsky. Cinematography - Matthew Libatique.
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