Steven Spielberg presents the award for Best Picture.
And the winner is…
The King’s Speech. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers.
“What an incredible, incredible honour. Tom Hooper you put so much passion into this film. To our acting royalty, Colin, Geoffrey and Helana. Thank you for coming on board.”
Sandra Bullock announces the winner for Best Actor in a Lead Role.
And the winner is…
COLIN FIRTH for his role in The King’s Speech.
Academy Award-winner and nominee again Jeff Bridges announces the winner for Best Actress in a Lead Role.
And the winner is….
NATALIE PORTMAN for her role in Black Swan
“Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. This is insane. I’m so in awe of you. I’m so grateful to get to do the job I do. I love it so much. I’d like to thank my parents. I want to thank my team.
Former Oscar host (eight times) Billy Crystal gets a standing ovation.
“Where was I? Something’s never change. The producers have told me to tell you we’re running a little long. So here are the nominees for Best Picture.” He had the duties of introducing a tribute to Bob Hope, who hosted the first televised Oscars back in 1953.
Robert Downey Jnr. and Jude Law then came on stage to present the Best Visual Effects to Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb for “Inception”.
Best Editing goes to The Social Network. “First thing’s first, *hugs*. We want to thank everyone who Aaron thanked. To David. It’s so inspirational to work with you”
Cate Blanchette presented the awards for Best Makeup and Best Costume Design. The winners are:
Best Makeup Award goes to Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for their work on “The Wolfman,”.
Dave Elsey said, “It was always my ambition to lose an Oscar to Rick Baker one day. Um. This is better.”
Best Costume Design- Colleen Atwood for her work on Alice in Wonderland. This is her third Academy Award. Congratulations to her.
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman present the awards Best Original Score to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their work “The Social Network,”
“Wow. Is this really happening? When we finished our work on The Social we were so happy with our work. Now to be in the company of such talent is so humbling and flattering beyond words. David Fincher. Thank you so much.”
Matthew Matthew Maconahay and Scarlett Johansson present the award for Best Sound Mixing to those involved in Inception: Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick. For the award in Achievement in Sound Editing, the winners is Richard King for his work on Inception.
“I owe this a thousand percent to Chris Nolan. I just want to thank you for making great movies and for inviting me along for the ride. I want to thank my sound editing crew who I share this award with. I want to thank my wife and my son Sam too. Thank you.”
Dame Helen Mirren and Russel Brand present the next award, which is the Best Foreign Language Film category. The award goes to “In a Better World,” Denmark. Susanne Bier accepted the award:
“Oh my God. This is a real Oscar. Thank you so much the Academy. What an honour. I am so truly honored and grateful and happy, thank you very much. I really need to congratulate my fellow nominees whose movies were amazing. And I really want to thank Tom Bernard and Michael Barker at Sony Classics for believing so strongly “In a Better World.” All my, all my creative partners whether they are in this room or in Denmark or Sweden, this one belongs to all of you as much as it belongs to me. Thank you very much.”
Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon presents the award for Best Supporting Actor. Christian Bale wins the award for his role in The Fighter. “Bloody hell. What an honour to be in a room full of talented and inspirational people. Melissa I’m not going to drop the F-bomb like she did. I’ve done that plenty of times before. Dicky, you’re the best. He’s had a wonderful story and I can’t wait to see the next chapter.”
The legendary Kirk Douglas gets a standing ovation. He thanks James Franco and thinks Anne Hathaway is gorgeous. He presents the award for Best Supporting Actress to Melissa Leo for her role in The Fighter.
“You pinched me. Wow. Mine. For me? You’re pretty good looking yourself. What are you doing later on? Oh my, oh my God. Oh wow really, really, really, really, really, truly wow. I know there’s a lot of people that said a lotta real real nice things to me for several months now, but I’m just shaking in my boots here. Ok, alright. Thank you David O. Russell. I want to thank the actors, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, he might run out for a second, Amy, my sweet sister Adams, Jack, our lovely daughters. OK. Yeah, I am kind of speechless. Golly sakes, there’s people up there too. When I watched Kate two years ago, it looked so fucking easy. Whoops. Alice Ward, your beautiful family that opened your hearts. I saw Mick here earlier. Dick, a shout out for Nana? Alright Dick’s not in the room.
Thank you so much, opening your hearts to all of us to make this film. I thanked David, I’ll thank him again. My family, my beautiful son who is traveling right now in South America and can’t join me. It’s ok, I’m ok Jack. My Mom and my Dad and my brother and my friends and my family. I want to thank the very most of all, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences, the Board of Governors, and all their members, whom many of you are here today. This has been a extraordinary journey in getting to know what the Academy is about and first and foremost, thank you Academy, because it’s about selling motion pictures and respecting the work! Thank you so much.”
Tom Hanks presents the first award of the night for the Achievement in Art Direction. The Oscar goes to Alice In Wonderland.
“Why didn’t I lose those twenty pounds. First of all to all the other nominees, all of you guys deserve to be up here.”
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography goes to Inception.
The 83rd Academy Awards are live. James Franco and Anne Hathaway have officially kicked off their hosting duties. This makes them the youngest actors to host the coveted awards, which goes out to about a billion people. No pressure now. 24 awards will be handed out tonight too. Let’s see if The King’s Speech will come out on top as everyone is expecting.
The show kicks off with the hosts ‘in Paris’ on the set of Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin. It then shoots off to The Social Network, The Figher, True Grit and The King’s Speech. Loving Anne Hathaway’s speech “I have good news from the future. Microphones get smaller.” Hilarious.
Oh my gosh you’re all real. Hello and welcome to the annual Academy Awards. “Thank you James. You look very appealing to a younger demographic as well”. Anne’s mom and James’ grandmother are there to support the duo. Granny says “I just saw Marky Marc”. Bless.
