4:31am
It's another Actress parade as past Best Actress winners arrive to anoint another member of their club.
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
At last! Winslet gives us one of the more spontaneous moments of the night by having her family whistle so she can spot them. Her dad's hat deserves an award of its own.
And so it's down to the final two...
Adrien Brody, Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson and "Sir" Ben of Kingsley arrive to welcome a new Best Actor.
Seriously, did Kingsley ask for the "Sir? Hopkins has been touched by the magic sword too - but he didn't seem bothered not to get the title-check.
So, of course, they give the award to Mickey R...
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Hang on... who? That wasn't supposed to happen, was it? But yes... The man not many (including totalfilm.com, though) suspected might steal Mickey Rourke's wrestling gold ascends to the podium.
Best opening line ever: "You commie, homo-loving sons of guns!"
Penn fires off some predictable political jabbing and offers a nice shout-out to Rourke at the end.
Time to wrap this sucker up... The Spielbeard arrives to dish out...
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
And so the Oscar train returns to its predicted course. Slumdog completes its sweep and seemingly the entire cast gets on stage with the producers and has a smiling/bouncing-around competition.
Our verdict: Jackman nailed it - minus the musical stuff - and the show managed to feel fresher and less predictable. Still a bit overlong and padded, though.
That's a wrap, folks.
A huge shout out to everyone who Twittered with us during the night. Catch up with the #tfoscars Twitter conversation in full here.
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Aeghast
Feb 23rd 2009, 18:12
Jackman ruled.
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Connie
Feb 24th 2009, 0:02
tina and steve nailed the comedy routine, loved the scientology jokes...thanks guys
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