LIVE OSCAR BLOGGING! — Owen Wilson was right: It is a little tacky to come out and plug your current movie. As he and Ben Stiller just proved.
Best Live-Action Short, Two Soldiers. And I'm five for six in predictions.
That was the first acceptance speech hustled off by music. Note that the man wielding the baton this year in the pit is Marc Shaiman. When he won a Tony last year for the Broadway Hairspray, he made a tacky remark, warning the orchestra not to cut off his acceptance speech. He doesn't decide when the music here starts — the producer and director do — but there's still some sort of irony in there.
Best Animated Short, Harvie Krumpet. There's a surprise. Everyone was expecting Destino so that Roy Disney could get up there and be applauded not so much for it as his efforts to oust Michael Eisner. Okay, I'm five for seven.