Oscar round-up

If you didn’t stay up all night to watch the biggest-award-show in town, and are waiting for the highlights packജage tonight, look away from your screen now, because we’re about to ruin all the best surprises.

And there were a few – Dreamgirls, despite being n💯ominated three times in a five entry category, failed to take home Best Original Song. We would have loved to have seen a shot of Beyoncé’s furious face, but sadly the cameramen were too busy focusing on the winner, Melissa Etheridge, for some reason.

Another shocker that surprised us, and Cate Blanchett, wa♔s the Foreign Language result, which, when we tried to put a bet on Pan’s La൩byrinth to win we were laughed out of the bookies. But it didn’t go to del Toro and his pals; instead the golden boy went to the little seen German film, The Lives Of Others.

Still, del Toro’s team did take home threꩲe trophies: Art Direction, Make Up and Cinematography, so it wasn’t all bad news for Pan.

But by fa🌜r the biggest story was Martin Scorsese. In the most moving moment of the night, LA 🦂erupted into thunderous applause and the sound of shuffling feet as the whole of Hollywood rose to salute the master, who took home his first-ever Oscars, for Best Direction and Best Film.

It was the winner everyone wanted, and on a fairly predictable evening (Mirren, Whitaker) it was appropriate that you knew the Director Oscar was going to Marty from the moment the presenters (his mate♓s George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg) walked out stage-right.

Marty still asked ‘em to double-check the envelope – and Spi🐼elberg almost did – but nothing could spoil the 79th Academy Awards for him, or indeed ♍us.

You can reminisce over one of the coolest Oscar nights for a while by visiting our , by reading the Live Oscar Blog by our man in LA or by investigating our Oscar Hub which is packed full of cool stuff.

Happy browsing, and we’ll see y🍬ou next year!

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