Looks like we're headed at Best Supporting Actor category... We have a wacky clipshow attack!
Christopher Walkin, Kevin Kline, Cuba Gooding Junior, Alan Arkin and Joel Gray are our ghosts of supporting actors past introducing the actors. Pairings up again. Apparently Alan Arkin = Phillip Seymour Hoffman; Joel Gray = Josh Brolin (a little gay in joke maybe? We get a small parable alongside the spiel); Cuba Gooding Jnr = Robert Downey Jnr (yeah, it really did have to be that pairing!); Christopher Walkin = Micheal Shannon (dubious mental health connection I think); Kevin Kline = Heath Ledger (weird). So inevitably Heath Ledger is going to be an odd thing to introduce for this. Kevin Kline is trying to make it work. Heath's family are being zoomed into by the camera. Al a little weird the vibe here.
WINNER: Heather Ledger. Of course.
So Heath's family look, er, pleased. And well dressed. Quite odd. Standing ovation from the crowd from them as they go up to pick up the award. Sean Penn is crying away in that crowd btw. Ok so we have Heath's parents and sister are picking up the award. The ladies have been beautifully dressed in Ivory, Heath's dad is doing a lovely tearful speech. It's a weird character and film to have a moving moment with. Heath's "special friend" Steve is an interesting throwaway comment. No sight or word of his ex and mother of his child Michella Williams though. Interesting. This is a nice way to do this award - no speeding up music for Ledger family mind.
Onto Best Documentary noms: Encounters at the End of the World; The Garden; The Betrayal; Man on Wire; Trouble the Water (I'm taken with that only as the director swore crazily just then). So the award is being given out by Bill Mahar. He points out that he has to come on whilst everyone cries. Bill is pimping his own religion film here, crowd won't commit to laughing. They draw the line there. They laughed at the scientology jokes from Steve Martin and Tina Fey earlier. The whole room here agrees with Mahar: we should all go see documentaries more!!
WINNER: Man on Wire. Is a no brainer (though not a great film the idea is genuinely uplifting for some reason). Co-directors are making Phillipe run up (He managed it leaping marvellously!). His speech: "yes!" Phillipe btw is carrying lucky coin from Werner - is magic! And Phillipe? He's leaving with Oscar balanced on his chin. Of course!
Best Short Documentary noms: The Conscience of Nhem Loo; The Final Inch; Smile Pinki; The Witness - From the Balcony 306
WINNER: Smile Pinki!
The director is delighted. Lucky her. But her dress is backless silk total gorgeousness! She is on the ball. She expected to win. She did good in that mildly cold way!
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