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Hey all! Georgie Morvis here to liveblog the Oscars for y’all. Red carpet coverage is just starting. My pick for best dressed so far is Scarlett Johansson.

6:39pm: Why is Matthew McConaughey at the Oscars. And yes, I know he’s presenting.

6:43pm: Anne Hathaway looks amazing. Here’s to her presenting going well.

6:44pm: Where is Banksy?!

6:58pm: Finally, a Natalie Portman sighting!

7:00pm: 30 minutes to Oscars!

7:18pm: Hailee Steinfeld NEEDS to win tonight. J. Biebz declared it. And let’s be real, the performance was amazing too.
7:32: And we’re starting! This is pretty amazing so far.

7:36pm: Alec Baldwin making Inception jokes is my favorite thing ever.

7:38pm: Loving the hosting job so far.

7:41pm: “I just saw Marky Mark.” – James Franco’s grandmother.

7:45pm: Alice in Wonderland just won Art Direction. Shocker!

7:47pm: And Inception just won Cinematography! Wow! I’m 0/2 so far.

7:49pm: Supporting Actress, the hardest award to predict, is up next. I’ve got Hailee Steinfeld. I feel like anything is possible now.

7:57pm: Melissa Leo wins. Ugh. Anyone who runs their own awards campaign obviously has no respect for the movie she was in.

8:04pm: Melissa Leo dropped an f-bomb. JT and Mila Kunis presented the Animated Short Award to The Lost Thing. I’m 0-for-4.

8:06pm: And Best Animated Feature goes to Toy Story 3. My first prediction right. 1-for-5. Lee Unkrich gives a great speech. Pixar for life.

8:14pm: And Best Adapted Screenplay goes to Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network. 2-for-6.

8:16pm: Aaron Sorkin gives a great speech and gets played off. Rude, orchestra. Just rude. Let him thank the gotdamn actors.

8:18pm: Best Original Screenplay goes to David Seidler for The King’s Speech. 3-for-7.

8:26pm: Anne Hathaway gives an amazing solo performance and Franco comes on in drag.

8:27pm: Foreign Film goes to In a Better World! 4-for-8. I’m at 50%.

8:31pm: Supporting Actor goes to Christian Bale. 5-for-9 #mylifeisnewsies

8:42pm: Original Score goes to Social Network. 5-for-10. Wow. Social Network has more Oscars than King’s Speech as of right now!

8:47pm: Sound Mixing goes to Inception! 6-for-11.

8:48pm: Sound Editing goes to Inception too. 7-for-12. Inception has the most Oscars so far!

8:56pm: Cate Blanchett walks on to the Lord of the Rings music to present Costume Design and Makeup. Makeup to Wolfman. 8-for-13.

8:57pm: And Costume goes to Colleen Atwood for Alice in Wonderland. 8-for-14… King’s Speech is not cleaning up like I assumed it would.

9:03pm: Original Song time. Randy Newman performs We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 first…

9:12pm: Amy and Jake out to present Documentary Short and Live Action Short. Doc Short goes to: Strangers No More. 9 for 15! And God of Love for Live Action Short. 10 for 16!

9:17pm: They do a young and hip musical montage full of auto-tune… what.

9:20pm: Oprah walks out to present Best Documentary. This is awkward because her movie, Waiting For Superman, wasn’t nominated. And it goes to someone who isn’t Bansky and I’m really upset! Just kidding, Inside Job was favored I guess… shoulda been Exit. BANKSY.

9:22PM: I hate when speeches get preachy, regardless of what choir they preach to. Oh, and 10-for-17.

9:34pm: RDJ and Jude Law present Visual Effects to Inception. 11-for-18. You go, Inception. That’s 4 Oscars!

9:35pm: And Editing goes to Social Network! 12-for-19! 3 for Social Network.

9:42pm: The flawless J. Hud introduces the flawless Florence Welch and A. R. Rahman to sing the song from 127 Hours. And then Gwyneth Paltrow sings the song from Country Strong and luckily changed out of that alien outfit and is generally boring. And the Original Song Oscar goes to: Toy Story 3! That’s 2 for Toy Story 3… 13-for-20.

9:50pm: He also called out the music branch’s weird rules. You go Randy Newman. 20 noms. 2 wins. I respect that.

9:56pm: In Memoriam segment is as touching as always. Lena Horne gets a special tribute from Halle Berry.

10:02pm: Hilary Swank introduces Kathryn Bigelow to announce Director. You go K. Bigz! And Tom Hooper gets Director FML. So much for The Social Network winning more Oscars… 13-for-21.

10:17pm: Jeff Bridges to present Best Actress and it goes to Natalie Portman for Black Swan! 14-for-22. Amazing girl, deserves it!

10:25pm: And Sandra Bullock gives Best Actor to Colin Firth for The King’s Speech. 15-for-23. He should have won last year though. Good performance though.

10:29pm: Commercial break. Watch newly minted Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman in her best role yet: http://www.hulu.com/watch/1404/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-natalie-raps#s-p16-sr-i2

10:33pm: THIS GOTDAMN T-STORM WARNING IS RUINING THE BEST PICTURE MONTAGE STL PULL IT TOGETHER

1-:36pm: And Best Picture goes to The King’s Speech. You did, Harvey Weinstein. Congrats.

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