Live-Blogging the Oscar Nominations

You know they're going to fly by, but since I literally don't have more than ten minutes between classes and meetings all day today and well into the evening, this is all you'll get from me in terms of reactions. Hope you're enjoying my favorite holiday (you pegged it, SRR!):

They're Out: Where are they? It's time! It's "producer, director, and Oscar-winning actor" Forest Whitaker? He'll look all sympathetic and full of feeling for everybody. Big teddy bear. He'll hug everyone who got snubbed.

S.Actress: Adams, Cruz, Davis, Henson, and Tomei (no Winslet!) (no DeWitt!)

S.Actor: Brolin (yay!!!), Downey (heh), Hoffman, Ledger, and Shannon (pulled it off!)

Actress: Hathaway (phew!!!!), Jolie, Leo (applause!), Streep, and Winslet (your winner), for The Reader!

Actor: Jenkins (no Eastwood!!!!!!), Langella, Penn, Pitt (oh, gross), Rourke (no Patel!!!!!!)

Director: Fincher, Howard, Van Sant (applause!), Daldry, Boyle

O.Screenplay: Frozen River (jesus!), Happy-Go-Lucky (oh, no Hawkins!), In Bruges, Milk (clapping), WALL•E

A.Screenplay: CCButton, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Reader (they loved this one), Slumdog

Foreign Film: Baader Meinhof, Class (yayyyy!!!), Departures, Revanche, Waltz with Bashir (I predicted pretty well!)

Animated Film: Bolt, Kung Fu, WALL•E (they just hate the foreign stuff, huh?)

Picture: CCButton (gross), Frost/Nixon (total meh), Milk (YAYYY!!!, but no Dark Knight!), The Reader (no official nominees yet?), Slumdog (screwing up my months of WALL•E predictions)

Overall: ehhhhhhh????????? I haven't even absorbed it yet.
Biggest Relief: Trouble the Water in Documentary!!!!
Biggest Problem: WHERE IS THE SPRINGSTEEN SONG????
Runner-Up: WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET A FEMALE D.P. A NOM????

For More: Nominees indciated here.