It’s Academy Awards night, which means we’ve already all piled in to Oscar Chat for our annual chat thing. For those of you not inside Oscar Chat 4 with us, I’ll be updating this news page LIVE with winners and semi-interesting commentary throughout the night as the Academy Awards happen. Keep refreshing this page to get your Oscar results! When there’s a winner, it’ll be noted in bold. When I have something to say, it will be noted in notes.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx - Ray

The inevitable.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Alda - The Aviator
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
Jamie Foxx - Collateral
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen - Closer

Alan Alda looks so... happy sitting in his seat. Like he'll be happy either way. Very cool guy. Great Jamie scene showed too. I so don't get the Morgan Freeman nod. At least he wasn't playing a detective opposite a white woman. This time a boxing trainer opposite a white woman. Wow, Morgan won though! Never saw that coming. Never!

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Annette Bening - Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Well there goes my pick. But she's been promoting herself around enough. I guess it should have been obvious. If only she'd turned that Clint Eastwood thank you into a Clint Howard thank you.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Laura Linney - Kinsey
Virginia Madsen - Sideways
Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman - Closer

Madsen only seemed great because she was with the snubbed Giamatti. Damned shame. I really wanted Cate to win this one. Dismissing her has an impression was silly. If you're going to level that at anyone level it at Jamie in Ray, since impressions have been his comedy bread and butter in the past. The Oscars agreed. Really great. She deserves it! She looks luminous up there. Her look is almost a Hepburn tribute itself. Really nice speech. Lot of thanking Hepburn, as it should be. Well done Cate.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Incredibles
Shark Tale
Shrek 2

This had to be Incredibles. The others didn't even deserve to be mentioned with it. Especially Shark Tale, I mean, come on. So great to see Brad Bird get recognized. Seems like a really nice guy up there. Looks like a computer nerd. I identify with the IT nerd. Go Brad!

DIRECTING
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford - Ray
Alexander Payne - Sideways
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake

Shocking. Wow. No way did I think Scorsese could lose this. Damn shame. Scorsese is NEVER going to get an Oscar at this rate. Goddamn. This one hurts. Really hurts.

BEST PICTURE
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways

Fockers promoting is not appropriate when presenting Best Picture Ms. Streisand. MDB winning this was a given after Clint ripped the Oscar from Marty's cold dead hands. No one even heard of this flick until a couple of months ago, but the critical rah rah from folks like Roger Ebert pushed it to the top of the heap. Clint looks awfully young all the sudden.

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Before Sunset
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
The Motorcycle Diaries
Sideways

No surprise here. Very dapper speech from Taylor though. Isn't looking like there'll be much else for Sideways but this.

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Aviator
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hotel Rwanda
The Incredibles
Vera Drake

Token award for Eternal Sunshine. Would have been nice to see an ANIMATED film win this. That would have been momentus. This is just nice. It's getting nothing else.

MUSIC (SCORE)
Finding Neverland
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Passion of the Christ
The Village

Didn't see the Finding Neverland win coming. Was hoping for Potter (John Williams is back... again!), but this is a nice pick too.

MUSIC (SONG)
"Accidentally In Love" - Shrek 2
"Al Otro Lado Del Río" - The Motorcycle Diaries
"Believe" - The Polar Express
"Learn To Be Lonely" - The Phantom of the Opera
"Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" - The Chorus

First spanish language song ever nominated wins! Can't hate that. Beautiful song, even if Antonio Banderas sang it.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Born into Brothels
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Super Size Me
Tupac: Ressurection
Twist of Faith

I only saw Super Size Me... meh. The kids are watching Calcuatt. Nice.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Autism is a World
The children of Leningradsky
Hardwood
Mighty Times: The Children's March

Sister Rose's Passion
Cut this one, give me some tech awards. Natalie Portman was wearing curtains when she presented it. Good for her. No fancy designer, just drapes.

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Birthday Boy
Gopher Broke
Guard Dog
Lorenzo
Ryan

Ryan's has a great buffet.

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Everything in this Country Must
Little Terrorist
7:35 in the Morning
Two Cars, One Night
Wasp

This award should be cut, stick it with the tech nerd awards hosted by Scarlett.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
As it is in Heaven
The Chorus
Downfall
The Sea Inside
Yesterday

I don't get this movie. It seemed wrong headed. Not because I have a problem with euthanasia, but because the film never made a good case for the guy needing it.

ART DIRECTION
The Aviator
Finding Neverland Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Phantom of the Opera
A Very Long Engagement

Aviator wins!!! First award of the night. At least they got to it fast. Not bad. Glad it wasn't Phantom.

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Aviator
House of Flying Daggers
The Passion of the Christ
The Phantom of the Opera
A Very Long Engagement

Passion had no chance at this if it couldn't win the makeup award. Aviator deserves it for the aerial stuff alone.

COSTUME DESIGN
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Ray
Troy

Edna Mole presented the award with Pierce Brosnan! Maybe she made his tux. Aviator seems to be on track with tech awards. I hope that isn't all it gets.

FILM EDITING
The Aviator
Collateral
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray

Another Aviator win. Really didn't expect such a sweep. In this case, Collateral might have been nice to see. Anything but Ray.

MAKEUP
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Passion of the Christ
The Sea Inside

I don't know why Sea Inside was nominated, but Passion would have been a nice winner. Still, it went to Lemony, which I guess isn't a bad choice. Standard choice, but good one.

SOUND EDITING
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Spider-Man 2

YES! They so deserve this. Granted, they deserve a lot of awards, but the noms weren't there. This one though... no comparison. So deserved.

SOUND MIXING
The Aviator
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Ray
Spider-Man 2

Incredibles ROBBED. Yes, Ray had nice music, but Incredibles had the best sound mixing I've ever heard, no contest.

VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I, Robot
Spider-Man 2

Spidey wins... and Jake presented it, which is sort of weird since he was nearly Spider-Man himself.