The Movie Empress

Final notes -- only 32 minutes over, mainly crisp, no Cameron, some great dresses and a perhaps disappointing shortage of horrid ones (at least on stage), I liked the hosts (both of them!). And NPH.

In fact, perhaps the greatest compliment to the evening is that the Empress' mother (The Grand Empress) actually stayed up and watched the entire show which has not happened in.... possibly forever.

Thank you for playing, and good night!

Finaly tally -- I got 18 out of 24 which is FAR more respectable than any year previously. I will not reveal my sources. (Entertainment Weekly, mainly.)

And, very best of all, I was saved from James Cameron in all three of the categories in which he might have taken the stage.

I bet they wouldn't have played "I Am Woman" if any of the other nominees would have won. What do you think they would have played for Lee Daniels?

And K. Bigelow can dress herself nicely, too.

I am just so delighted to see Kathryn Bigelow win. What a milestone, and look what it saved us from tonight.

In all seriousness, I hope this sort of nomination and win may become much more commonplace.

You know that Babs is still pissed they didn't nominate her for The Prince of Tides.

It's not how I would have voted, but I do really, really like Sandra Bullock. And I like what she said about the moms who take care of the babies and the children no matter where they come from.

I don't know how she can make me tear right up and cackle raucously in the same speech.

And she can make that muscle man of hers cry.

Oh, Sean. You're a putz, you are completely inarticulate if you're not reading a script, and what kind of a weird political stance is it to refuse to join a body in which you could actually have some influence over the things that bother you if you got yourself on some committees? You're just one of those guys who likes to stay on the outside so you can agitate and say you're misunderstood.

Sign of a good marriage -- Don Gummer is absolutely unimpressed that he's married to a legend. And the legend isn't real impressed herself. :-)

Peter Skarsgaard will never cease to be creepy. A large part of this is Boys Don't Cry. But some of it is just his voice.