Oscars Live Blog: Part 3

• Live Action Short: Spielzeugland. 6 for 10. Winning an Oscar for a short film probably makes you feel much cooler than you really are. They should just mail them to the winners. And they should be smaller than the normal ones, so they can’t ever tell anyone they won it for a grown-up category.
• I’m catching myself closing my eyes and pretending Hugh Jackman is the Crocodile Hunter.
• Beyonce is way too bootylicious for me. Zak Efron is too, for that matter. I guess most people are too bootylicious for me.
• I kind of like this personal attention for the acting nominees thing. Christopher Walken should be hosting this show.
• Heath gets his posthumous Oscar. 7 for 11. Classy–his family accepts. I was kind of hoping it would be Jack Nicholson, but this is a better move. I’m also glad that his daughter wasn’t up there–that would have been a little too public. Well done, Oscars.
• Bill Maher comes off as a bitter, self-important ass. No surprise there. Seriously though, there is nothing wrong with believing in a peaceful God. Go preach to the fanatics.
• Documentary Feature: Man on Wire. 8 for 12. They have the tightrope walker up there. Magic trick… balancing the statuette on the chin… yeah–that’s pretty bad-ass.
• Documentary Short Subject: Smile Pinki! My guesses are even coming through. 9 for 13. Now I’ll have to see it.
• Visual Effects: Yuck. Benjamin Button. 9 for 14. This was not a good movie.
• Sound Stuff: Seriously, what’s the difference between sound editing and mixing? Anyway, Dark Knight wins. 10 for 15. Slumdog Millionaire. Bam. 11 for 16.
• Film Editing: Slumdog! 12/17. This is getting boring. Something exciting needs to happen. A Jerry Lewis tribute doesn’t seem like the antidote.