11:49 - Well, it was a big night for The King's Speech, with the film talking home Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture. The Academy spread the love around tonight, awarding three Oscars to The Social Network, four to Inception and two each to The Fighter and Toy Story 3. Black Swan took home the Best Actress Oscar. Other Best Picture nominees True Grit, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, and The Kids Are All Right each won no awards tonight.
11:36 - The King's Speech wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. The British are laughing now.
11:23 - Best Actor goes to Colin Firth for The King's Speech. Looks like a shoe-in for Best Picture now.
11:16 - Best Actress goes to Natalie Portman for Black Swan. The film has otherwise been totally snubbed tonight, not that it's any surprise. As with most edgy films, it was too strange to get widespread admiration. Give it a few more years.
11:03 - Best Director goes to Tom Hooper for The King's Speech. Huge win. King's Speech: 2, Social Network: 3
10:46 - Best Original Song goes to Toy Story 3's "We Belong Together" by Randy Newman. Can't decide whether the Golden Globes, which picked Cher's "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" from Burlesque, or the Academy made a worse choice. Sad year for Best Original Songs. I still agree with Family Guy about Randy Newman.
10:35 - Best Film Editing goes to The Social Network. Third win of the night for the film.
10:31 - Best Visual Effects Oscar goes to Inception, the fourth win for the night's clear technical leader. The film has won four of it's seven nominations so far, but with Best Picture as it's eighth, this is likely the night's end for Christopher Nolan's film. Though the film was quite good, cinema is still all about the story. We haven't all been corrupted into special effects junkies yet.
10:22 - "Hide your wife. Hide your kids. It's Autotune the Oscars." - A.O. Scott
10:22 - Autotune the Oscars. Fantastic. Perhaps the Academy will someday give more than a comical nod to the exploding new media sector. But this is progress! YouTube Oscar, anyone?
10:20 - Best Documentary Feature goes to Inside Job.
10:16 - Best Live Action Short goes to God of Love.
10: 12 - Best Documentary Short goes to Strangers No More.
9:59 - The Oscar for Best Costume Design goes to Alice in Wonderland, the Academy's second nod of the night to Tim Burton's distinctive cinematic style, adding to the film's art direction win.
9:56 - The Oscar for Best Makeup goes to The Wolfman, which probably no one actually watched. Impressive that the Academy actually remembered that.
9:50 - Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing Awards bot go to Inception.
9:42 - Best Original Score goes to The Social Network, the film's second win of the night.
9:30 - Best Supporting Actor goes to Christian Bale for The Fighter, the film's second win of the night. Bale clearly hasn't trimmed his beard much since the Golden Globes.
9:27 - Best Foreign Language Film goes to In a Better World.
9:16 - The Oscar for Best Original Screenplay goes to David Seidler for The King's Speech.
9:14 - The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network.
9:07 - The Oscar for Best Animated Feature goes to Toy Story 3. Big surprise.
9:04 - The Oscar for Best Animated Short goes to The Lost Thing. Aka not Pixar. And Justin Timberlake isn't funny.
8:57 - The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to Melissa Leo from The Fighter. The Oscar for Best Old Man Presenter goes to Kirk Douglas. Best Old Man Wrangler goes to Hugh Jackman.
8:56 - "Colin Firth is not laughing. He's British." - Kirk Douglas
8:51 - KIRK DOUGLAS IS STILL ALIVE. And he still has his fantastic double chin.
8:47 - The Oscar for cinematography goes to Wally Pfister for his work on Inception.
8:44 - The Oscar for art direction goes to Alice in Wonderland. The winners even put a little top hat on the statue. Cute.
8:37 - The show begins with an interesting montage featuring the co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco with last year's host Alec Baldwin and an appearance with Morgan Freeman. Of course it's all actually a dream. A big thank you to Inception for providing the most clichéd and easiest plot twist of the year.
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