Gotta admit, I quite enjoyed this 'live blogging' thing, made much easier by CoverItLive.com. If you want to do one of these things, I whole-heartedly recommend them (although the lack of a spell checker is a bit of a downer, but not an insurmountable one).

Jump after the break to read the replay of the insanity that is my Oscar live blog.

Read On!

As I am wont to do, here are my picks for the Academy Awards tonight, which I will be live-blogging (for at least a half hour, or until I pass out from boredom). Titles with an asterisk next to them indicate movies I've seen, which wasn't many of 'em. As the night goes on, I'll cross out which picks were wrong and italicize the ones I got right, showing just how inaccurate my random guessing can be.

BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Louis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

BEST ACTRESS: Ellen Page, Juno
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Saoirse Ronan, Atonement

BEST PICTURE: No Country For Old Men
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Persepolis

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): Peter And The Wolf
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): At Night

ART DIRECTION: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
CINEMATOGRAPHY: No Country For Old Men
COSTUME DESIGN: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
DIRECTION: No Country For Old Men
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Sicko
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Freeheld
FILM EDITING: No Country For Old Men
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 12
MAKEUP: Norbit
MUSIC (SCORE): Ratatouille*
MUSIC (SONG): Choose one from Enchanted
SOUND EDITING: There Will Be Blood
SOUND MIXING: Transformers*
VISUAL EFFECTS: Transformers*
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): No Country For Old Men
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): Juno