LIVE OSCAR BLOGGING! — Documentary Short, The Chernobyl Heart. Great, memorable speech. I'm seven for nine.
Best Documentary Feature, The Fog of War. Great line: "I'd like to thank the Academy for finally recognizing my films." That's the kind of thing people think but it's nice to hear someone with the guts to say it aloud. But then he has to thank Robert McNamara…"if he hadn't done it, there wouldn't have been a film." Yeah, and if he hadn't done some other things, a lot of people wouldn't have died in Vietnam.
The tribute to Katharine Hepburn a few minutes ago was nice. This one to Gregory Peck was nice. But is anyone else a little uncomfy with the Academy deciding that certain actors get singled out and others get lumped into a quick montage? And of course, someone also decides that certain folks are omitted altogether because there isn't time. I guess it has to be this way but we don't have to pretend it's all copacetic.