04.53 GMT - Well, it's all over and before 5am too. Aside from a little lag in the middle, I'd say that was a very good show. Jon Stewart was sharp and slick and didn't take up more time than he needed to. The awards were spread far and wide and almost all went to deserving winners. Marion Cotillard, Diablo Cody and the Once team provided the sweetness and Daniel Day Lewis and the Coens gave us grace. The musical segments didn't all bite and Oscar only briefly gave in to his usually overpowering hankering to turn everything that stood still long enough into a montage. There can't be many film fans who will be upset at the results tonight. Thanks for staying up, if you did. It's now time for the great, good and freeloading of Hollywood to head off for some booze and the rest of us to head to our beds. See you on March 9 for live blogging of the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, which are being held at a reasonable hour and where I get to partake of the free bar throughout. Woohooozzzzzzzzz.....
Best Motion Picture of the Year
04.51 GMT - WINNER! It's the big'un. Best Picture. No Country For Old Men would seem the most likely, but could there be an upset? It's No Country! The Coen brothers are going to have to get a bigger mantelpiece. Someone keep an eye on Frances McDormand, because she's going to explode. She's actually covering her mouth for apparent fear of screaming.
Best Achievement in Directing
04.48 GMT - WINNER! Martin Scorsese's presenting the award. Who better to collect the award from? It goes to the Coen brothers. Very popular in the room and here. Ethan says a simple thank you and leaves it to his brother to tell a sweet anecdote about the first film they made, called Henry Kissinger: Man on the Go. Frances McDormand is near apoplectic with glee.
04.47 GMT - I'm now starting to see little blue spots.
04.44 GMT - Not to be a hater, but I hate the little ad break bits in the Sky studio. Like Claudia Winkelman, but could firebomb the rest of the panel happily. Best Director up next. This is really anyone's, except probably Jason Reitman. Juno is a great film, but it's not one where people notice the director's work. But he did draw effecting performances from the entire cast, particularly the undersung Jennifer Garner. Her transformation through that film was extraordinary. Should. Have. Been. Nominated.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
04.37 GMT - WINNER! I always expect Day Lewis to be miserable and artsy, but he's really a very engaging speech giver. He called There Will Be Blood "a golden sapling that sprung from the mad, beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson", which is odd, but interesting. Then he dedicated it to his boys. Nice. Only two awards to go. If you’re still conscious, well done. If you’re not, I hate you.
04.36 GMT - Sam Toy just called Helen Mirren a GILF. Please address all grossed out emails to him. The sexiest pensioner alive gives the prize, obviously, to Day Lewis. He just kissed George Clooney. Alert the gossip columns.
04.35 GMT - It's time for the award for Best Actor, sponsored by Daniel Day Lewis. If anybody else wins, I will eat my keyboard. Do they have any other clips from There Will Be Blood except for "I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!"? Because there are lots of good ones. I can make them a list.
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
04.31 GMT - WINNER! Awesome, Harrison Ford and the Indy theme tune. Bring on May 22. He's presenting Best Original Screenplay. Diablo Cody HAS to win. Diablo wins! Question is, will she strip in celebration? For all you aspiring screenwriters, this woman didn't want to write screenplays, used to be a stripper and just won an Oscar for her first attempt at scripting. Choking on your bile yet? Aw, she's crying while thanking everyone. Marvellous little speech. Plus, she looks like a glamorous Flintstones character, which is kinda bitchin' of her.
04.30 GMT - Right, it's 4.30am. Can't be long to go now. I apologise if any future blog entries are excessively cranky. I just shouted "Bitch!" at one of Sky's Oscar pundits for no real good reason, which suggests either I need winding, have just developed tourettes or a require a good long sleep.
Best Documentary, Features
04.23 GMT - WINNER! Documentary Feature goes to Taxi To The Dark Side. All the remaining awards are proper exciting ones, so time to perk up.
Best Documentary, Short
04.19 GMT - WINNER! One of the winners for Freeheld – Cynthia something – is in near hysterics. She seems a little like she's in a Saturday Night Live skit as Kinda Sorta Batshit Crazy Director Woman. Some of my colleagues are imploring Bill Conti to be a bit quicker with his stick.
04.18 GMT - Best Documentary Short is enlivened by the presence of Tom Hanks. There's a very strange video showing US soldiers in Iraq announcing the nominees. Erm...because?
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
04.14 GMT - WINNER! Amy Adams' little sound clip filled intro for Best Score is cute. This is Atonement's biggest shot at a prize. The typewriter use on that score was near genius. And Atonement gets it. Saoirse Ronan is very happy. And also quite small. And green. And talented. As is the guy who wrote the score, whose name has completely escaped me in my befuddled condition. Well done…you.
04.11 GMT - Yes, just got something in my eye during Heath Ledger.
04.08 GMT - It's the obituaries. In our current exhausted state, the entire Empire staff may cry. Silence please.
Best Achievement in Cinematography
04.05 GMT - WINNER! Cameron Diaz is presenting Best Cinemanetography, apparently. Guess that's a new award. It's got to be Roger Deakins for something. He's up for No Country, but his work on Assassination of Jesse James was gorgeous. Oh, it goes to Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood. Well, that's certainly no bad thing. We're not seeing any clear leader for Best Picture here. It could still go any way. Daniel Day Lewis just got thanked...but was in the loo or polishing his earrings or something.
04.03 GMT - Jon Stewart just brought Marketa Irglova from Once out to give a little speech, because the band played her off before. Stewart owns this year.
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
03.55 GMT - WINNER! Again, not saying ANYTHING about John Travolta's hair. He presents Best Song to...please be Once. Please be Once. It goes to Once! WOOOOOOOOOOO! Aww, they're so touched. Outspan from the Commitments has an Oscar! Altogether now, "Where's me knob? Oi'm sure oi tocked it in me sock before oi left".
03.52 GMT - Another song from Enchanted, with stand-ins pretending to be Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey. Dude, they're both there. Just get them onstage and save a couple of bucks on extras. Dempsey just introduced the damn song for chrissakes. He couldn’t wander to centre stage and waltz a bit? This is the last musical segment, thank heavens. There's a bit of a mid-point lag in the ceremony here.
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
03.49 GMT - WINNER! From this point on, I am likely to make constant spelling errors, because I can barely see and the matchsticks propping my eyes open are all but splintered. I just wrote 'girl' instead of 'good'. Oh god, I'm so tired. Penelope Cruz is presenting Best Foreign Language Film. There has been much controversy about this category because Oscar chose, well, completely wrongly on the whole. No 4 Months. 3 Weeks and 2 Days? No Persepolis? The prize goes to The Counterfeiters, which I've actually seen and is very good. It's no Persepolis though.
03.42 GMT - He's still giving speech, but now less good. It's too late at night/early in the morning for nattering of this length. We get it, you did good stuff and people helped you. Now go to the bar/bed.
03.38 GMT - Nicole Kidman is presenting an honorary Oscar to production designer Robert Boyle, regular collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others. The guy's older than water, but he gives a good speech.
Best Achievement in Editing
03.34 GMT - WINNER! Renee Zellweger got buff! Seriously, girl got guns. She presents Best Editing to The Bourne Ultimatum. I think that makes Bourne the biggest winner so far. It's three for three.
03.32 GMT - Oh thank God, the montage is now into the '90s.
03.29 GMT - Jack's presenting a montage of the 79 previous Best Picture winners. We retract that woo.
03.28 GMT - Jack's presenting. Woo!
03.24 GMT - Colin Farrell nearly just went arse over tit, but styled it out. He's introducing the song from Once, which is a beautiful tune. Go and see Colin in In Bruges, because it's great. Then buy the Once album. Then wear some green and go leprechaun hunting. The Once performance is the musical highlight of the evening. To up your slush factor a little more, the leads from the film are together in real life. Awwww.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
03.18 GMT - WINNER! The winner is...Marion Cotillard! We've got ourselves a crier! Very very much deserved. She's so happy. She thanked the director, love and life – well, she is French. That was a proper little Oscar moment. Always nice to see someone genuinely thrilled to get the prize. Good on her.
03.17 GMT - Cate Blanchett just winced at her nomination clip. We're not sure that's in the list of approved Oscar facial expressions, but it was funny.
03.14 GMT - It's Best Actress time. Already? Quick show. I have a bet on Ellen Page for Juno and am pretty sure I'm going to lose that one. But this could go almost any way. Forrest Whitaker is a little rambling in his opening speech. So who's it gonna be?
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
03.05 GMT - WINNER! It's the ones we've all been waiting for: Best Sound Editing and Mixing. Kevin O'Connell has been nominated 13 times before and is up for mixing Transformers here. We're hoping for him. Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen are presenting in place of Halle Berry and Judi Dench. It would take too long to explain the whole gag, but it's funny. It's an argument over who would be Halle Berry. The Bourne Ultimatum wins Sound Editing, which is great. They edited the shit out of that sound. And now mixing. Come on Kevin O'Connell. Oh, Kevin, we're so sorry. It's The Bourne Ultimatum again. Go and get that big robot truck and run their asses down.
03.03 GMT - There are guys dressed like the Three Amigos in the musical number, for no apparent reason. But you don't need a reason to dress like the Three Amigos, just some pluck and a big hat. That's become one of our favourite moments so far.
03.02 GMT - We think the girl presenting the next Oscar song, from Enchanted, is what’s known as a Miley Cyrus. That's exciting if you're a zygote with the Disney Channel. Kristen Chenoweth is singing. According to James, she's awesome because she was in The West Wing once for fourteen seconds.
03.00 GMT - Who's this guy? We think it's the president of the Academy. He's explaining how the voting process works with a little video film. It seems like it should be an extended gag, but it's not. It's like something you'd watch in the Academy lobby while waiting for an appointment and had read all the magazines. Actually, bits are jokey. Maybe this was made during the strike and that's why there are no actual proper gags. As Jon Stewart deadpans, that was amazing.
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
02.59 GMT - WINNER! Josh Brolin and James McAvoy are presenting Best Adapted Screenplay. Great pairing. Brolin does not do a good Jack Nicholson impression and should never attempt one again. The Coens win for No Country For Old Men. If they could use their acceptance speech to explain the final scene, I'd really appreciate it...They didn't. Sons of beestings. Nice short speech from them about adapting only Homer and Cormac McCarthy.
02.55 GMT - Hey, Jack's there! That's reassuring.
02.51 GMT - We must be nearly at the halfway point and it's only an hour in. Jessica Alba presented the technical awards earlier in the week. It's good of the Academy to always throw the nerds a sexy young actress to give them a reason to leave their cubicles.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
02.44 GMT - WINNER! It goes to Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton. Wow! That is a good call. She says her agent is the spitting image of the Oscar, with the same shaped head and buttocks and she's giving the prize to him. We think he got her BAFTA too, so good month for him. She is a terrific speech giver, even getting in a mention of the nipples on George Clooney's batsuit. Give her all the prizes. Hell, make up prizes for her. Start with Best Transformation of Velvet Bin Bag Into Oscar Frock.
02.41 GMT - Best Supporting Actress is next up. Here to present is Alan Arkin, looking somewhat sour. This should be Cate Blanchett's to lose, but will I'm Not There's lack of other nominations count against her? Amy Ryan could take it for Gone Baby Gone.
Best Short Film, Animated
02.37 GMT - WINNER! Another montage about bees in movies, presented by Jerry Seinfeld as Bee Movie's Barry B. Benson. Wacky montages are fun! He's presenting Best Animated Short. We want the one with Walruses to win, because Walruses never win anything. Damn you, society, with your body fascism. And damn you, Peter and the Wolf, for robbing the walruses. When will they catch a break? It's another Brit win, which will please the tabloids.
Best Short Film, Live Action
02.35 GMT - WINNER! The winner is Les Something Du Pickpockets - it's hard to read the screen while typing. And so we have the annual 'charming person who speaks pidgin english' speech.
02.34 GMT - Owen Wilson is here to present Best Live Action Short. Nice to see him back. If you make any jokes at his expense you WILL go to Hell. You will not collection $200.
02.31 GMT - Another musical segment, this time from August Rush. This one doesn't feature Amy Adams so therefore we suggest you go and make tea. This song blows like Paris Hilton at a Most Eligible Bachelor ball. And someone in the choir is flat. The lead singer is doing Mariah Carey-style 'why use one note when 64 will do?' singing.
02.28 GMT - Jon Stewart has a handy translation for anyone who didn't understand the Spanish segment of Bardem's speech. It seems he told his mother where the library is. Another montage moment. It's an Oscar salute to binoculars and periscopes. It's important we remember what peeping implements have done for the cinema industry. They are too often overlooked, no pun intended. If that was indeed a pun.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
02.23 GMT - WINNER! The Oscar goes to Javier Bardem. We all knew it was going to happen, but by god he deserved it. Not many people can be terrifying while wearing Anne Widdecombe's hair, except Anne Widdecombe. He thanks the Coens for the hair-don't, "one of the most horrible in history" as he's just described it. He's now speaking Spanish to thank his mother and melting the gussets of women around the world. That guy is cool.
02.19 GMT - First acting award and it's Supporting Actor. Javier Bardem is the big favourite and nobody can deny he deserves it for No Country For Old Men. Although Casey Affleck is equally deserving. Jennifer Hudson is presenting and her oddly cut dress has created some kind of boob sack, which is probably not what she was going for.
Best Achievement in Art Direction
02.17 GMT - WINNER! Cate Blanchett's presenting Art Direction. Why did I not know she was pregnant? Did that just happen yesterday? These awards are really whipping along. This usually goes to something a bit old-fashioned looking. I reckon Sweeney Todd's a good bet, although it didn't have many sets. Winner is...Sweeney Todd. Wow, I am good at this. The woman who co-won with Dante Feretti can't stop smiling. I'm not sure she possesses the ability to stop smiling, even if she wants to.
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
02.15 GMT - WINNER! The Rock presenting an Oscar is a strange, strange thing that gladdens our heart. He's really over-pronouncing everything, but it's sorta charming. He's awarding Best Visual Effects. If it's not Transformers, I'll throw something at the telly. Or maybe James. Maybe I'll throw James at the telly. The Golden Compass won?! Oh you are @*?# ing KIDDING me! Who the hell did that polar bear have to sleep with?
02.06 GMT - Jon Stewart is singing 'Happy Working Song' from Enchanted. Thankfully, Amy Adams quickly takes over. She is giving it everything and has some good lungs on her (we mean the voice, not the low-cut dress). She's even doing the little Giselle pointy fingers. She was robbed of a Best Actress nod. Well done, Amy. In answer to your final line, yes, it was fun.
Best Achievement in Makeup
02.02 GMT - WINNER! Katherine Heigl is visibly nervous, if lovely, presenting Best Make Up. Bless her. It would be hilarious for 0.7 seconds if Norbit won. Then our collective soul would die. It's probably La Vie En Rose. And it is. Marion Cotillard looks as happy as if she'd won the award herself. It's no easy task making that woman look ropey, so good work there. Cool, one of the winners is British. They're playing her off mid-speech. Show some respect, America. We gave you a language and taught you how to have an overblown sense of your own importance.
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
01.57 GMT - WINNER! Stewart is doing very well so far. Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell are here to present. "Thanks Jon, for that touching introduction. You never fail to surprise me with your need for attention", says Carell. He's started introducing this as Best Documentary. Sadly, Hathaway informs him it's Best Animated Feature. Good comedy bit. The chemistry between these two bodes well for Get Smart. So, could Persepolis beat Ratatouille? Both were amazing, but surely it'll be Ratatouille? And it is Ratatouille. Can't argue with that. Brad Bird's probably the first person to thank his high school guidance councilor for teaching him how to argue. I think he's practiced this speech. It's good. Yay Brad Bird! Oh, they played him off the stage. Harsh.
01.53 GMT - George Clooney is reflecting on the many years of Oscar. He ad-libbed a little gag about the Oscars always being long, which is why everyone loves him. Oh hey, it's a montage. Can't get enough of those. Which is good because there'll be eleventy billion tonight. This one says Happy 80th Birthday Oscar. It's a cute little package. Hey, if you've got some spare time, why not head over and look at our list of 80 Most Memorable Oscar Moments in the Oscar microsite. What? Who are you calling a site whore?
Best Achievement in Costume Design
01.48 GMT - WINNER! First award presented by Jennifer Garner. And it's costume design. The first Oscar goes to Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Some say they just sewed some more lace on the costumes from the first film, so should be disqualified. Those people are bitter, bitter liars. Short, sweet speech. Well done that woman whose name we forgot (sorry).
01.45 GMT - Jon Stewart's stripper name is Olympia Dukakis. Mine is Pickles Riverview. Which is both manly and sexy.
01.41 GMT - Does Daniel Day Lewis always have two earrings? I thought he wore one. Stewart describes Away From Her as "a movie about a woman who forgets her own husband. Hilary Clinton called it the movie of the year". Wait, Jon Stewart is going to be political? Who knew? Someone just applauded the nomination for Norbit! That person is now being escorted out the back to be beaten with one of those giant statues outside the Kodak Theatre.
01.40 GMT - First gag is about the writers' strike. I win a tenner! After the fight of the strike, Jon Stewart says this is "the make-up sex". He's started well. We like him. "Before we spend the next 4 to 5 hours giving each other golden statues, let's take a moment to congratulate ourselves" for helping end the strike. Tee-hee.
01.36 GMT - I think the little driving-through-all-movies-ever intro might be a bonus level from Grand Theft Auto 4.
01.35 GMT - So, it's finally here. We thought it might never happen. But now the writers' strike is over, the very helpful and delightfully Scottish Jane from Sky has sorted out our worryingly temperamental Sky Premiere connection, the stars are all gussied up and starving, and Jon Stewart (woo!) has got his second shot at the presenting gig. We're excited now. Ladies and gentlemen, the 80th annual Academy Awaaaaaaards!
00.58 GMT - Steve Carell is discussing the perils of presenting Oscars. He says he's presenting with Anne Hathaway in "14-inch heels". Her, not him. Steve Carell: Most reliable Oscar presenter alive. Discuss. Hey, the red carpet's finished. Yay, no more Kate...we mean, Yay, the show's going to start in a minute.
00.55 GMT - Kate Thornton is basing her entire interview with Jessica Alba around the fact that both are pregnant. Nothing says Oscar glamour and excitement like discussion of swollen ankles and stretch marks. If Thornton went into labor now, would someone else take over. Can we make that happen?
00.53 GMT - I must apologise for the fact that I'm not giving any fashion critique, which is what the red carpet's really about. I don't know what to offer. I know Marion Cotillard looks very lovely in an old Hollywood way. She says she's wearing Jean Paul Gautier, who designed the costumes for The Fifth Element. She definitely looks better than Chris Tucker.
00.49 GMT - I'm not sure what Kate Thornton's talking to, but I think it used to be Faye Dunaway. I literally cannot understand a word she is saying. Are those lips it has? Hey, Cameron Diaz is here to show her how to speak in sentences. She looks purdy. She's apparently not out to party, so go home, single men of Hollywood.
00.45 GMT - Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is wearing rave-style yellow sunglasses. He should win the directing award for that. He also looks kinda like what would happen if Guillermo Del Toro and Rip Torn mated. Nice little image for you all there.
00.41 GMT - Helen Mirren's carrying a little Union Jack flag. Gawd luv 'er. Be thankful your grandmother is not that attractive. It's saved you thousands on therapy bills.
00.39 GMT - People in our live chatroom, specifically Neo, have made up a game called 'How To Kill Kate Thornton'. Empire in no way endorses this game and will co-operate with all authorities if any of the players takes this to grizzly conclusions.
00.33 GMT - Confession: I missed most of Laura Linney's interview because I went to the loo (too much information?). Anyway, I think her flight was delayed or something.
00.29 GMT - Kate Thornton clearly has no idea who Amy Adams is. It would seem Kate's evident pregnancy bump has sapped all blood and nourishment away from her brain. Thankfully, someone in her earpiece appears to have saved her. Adams looks gorgeous. She has no interesting questions to respond to, but she's just lovely.
00.26 GMT - Hi James McAvoy. He's great, isn't he? Even if he does persist with his My First Facial Hair look. He should have been nominated tonight. McAvoy's just said '2-1' to the British viewers. That's, like, a football thing...I'd imagine.
00.25 GMT - Interviewing rule number 1 - Do not open by asking your interviewee how old they are, as Ms T just did to Ruby Dee. Understandably, she didn't stick around long. Presumably, she fled to the nearest available plastic surgeon. Which, given this is LA, is probably about 7" away.
00.21 GMT - Helen Mirren is hot. I don't even care that she gets a free bus pass and is probably minus several of her original teeth. John Travolta is now standing on the hem of the dress of the wife of Patrick Dempsey. Aaand Kate Thornton just bumped Dempsey, star of Grey's Anatomy, so she could talk to John Travolta. What is this, 1998?! Dempsey's the bigger star now. I am saying absolutely nothing about Travolta's hair. Really, nothing.
00.12 GMT - Uh-oh, Kate just called Saoirse Ronan English. That sound you hear is the population of Ireland lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks. Her Irish accent is so thick that her performance in Atonement seems all the more amazing. Kate just asked Saoirse's mum if she's sober. I think Kate Thornton might hate the Irish. Saoirse Ronan is very sweet, as well as being an incredible actress.
00.06 GMT - Jason Bateman! He was in Teen Wolf Too! He's trying his best to be playful with Kate Thornton, but she has the wit of a geriatric hamster and is taking everything he says at face value. To my eternal shame, I once made Jason Bateman whistle 'Happy Birthday' during an interview, for reasons too non-sensical to go into. We both sat in a brief but hugely uncomfortable silence aftewards. Sorry Jason Bateman.
00.01 GMT - Hey, George Clooney! That's more like it. I'd like to be him when I grow up. He says he thinks he has Best Actor locked and that Daniel Day Lewis should have stayed home making shoes, rather than waste his time. It's just a little bit possible that he's joking. I am firmly of the opinion that George Clooney is among the five best people alive. The other four are the Teletubbies.
23.57 GMT - Kate's managed to grab Tom Wilkinson for a chat. To be fair to her, her questions to him are pretty good. Maybe it's because he's not wearing hazardously weighty ear jewelery. Tom Wilkinson seems agreeably avuncular.
23.47 GMT - It's at this point in watching the Sky red carpet coverage that I really wish we could get E! on our TV. Apparently over there Ryan Seacrest is asking Heidi Klum about not wearing knickers, not about Ruth Madoc's greatest hits. On Sky we're getting nothing but ads and clip reels. I think it's because nobody is coming over to talk to Kate, because she has the look of a woman who's struggling to think of questions and employ basic motor skills when in the presence of celebrity.
23.42 GMT - If Helen O'Hara, our Reviews Ed, keeps turning up in all the Sky clip reels, my shit is going to get pretty freaked out pretty quick.
23.40 GMT - Here's Amy Ryan, who's nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Gone Baby Gone. Haven't seen that yet, because its UK release is delayed as it's about a young girl being kidnapped. She seems nice and smiles through Kate's insightful question about whether her dangly diamond earrings are hurting her.
23.36 GMT - Kate Thornton just asked Seal what he's doing here. That's rude, Kate. We're all thinking it, but you're not supposed to say it. She also made a 'Hi-Di-Hi' joke to Heidi Klum. '80s sitcom gags to German models? Well done. Heidi looks hot, obviously. She's wearing something red by some guy. Dammit, where's Helen when you need her? Erm, the feed's just gone. I think this may have been the programme editor's comment on Kate's interview technique.
23.29 GMT - Actual recognisable people are starting to turn up on the red carpet. George Clooney is there, surprisingly unfashionably early. Seal and Heidi Klum are there for unspecified reasons. Sadly, they are not in Halloween costumes. They are always at their most entertaining in Halloween costumes.
23.22 GMT - Someone's 'accidentally' playing incidental music over Kate Thornton while she presents the third montage in ten minutes. Whoever that person is, I LOVE you. Argh, Helen's O'Hara's on the telly talking about dresses! What the funk? I'm frightened. Can she see me?
23.16 GMT - And so it begins - at least the red carpet part. If you want to bypass all this bit where I'm confused and mainly ambivalent about who's wearing what and, occasionally, wondering who the hell they are, then just tune in to any posts after 1am. Talk amongst yourself in the meantime. Kate Thornton is presenting the red carpet interviews for Sky, but there's not a lot we can do about that. She's already off to a misinformed start, saying none of the films nominated in the big categories are standard Oscar fare. Erm, Atonement? Come back Fearne Cotton, all is forgiven.
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