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Aussies miss out on Oscar glory

Five Australians miss out on going home with Oscar -and Nine cuts short the Live broadcast.

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Photo1 macfThe five Australians in contention at the Academy Awards all missed out.

Hugh Jackman lost Best Actor to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln.

Naomi Watts lost Best Actress to Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook.

Jacki Weaver lost Best Supporting Actress to Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables.

Rick Findlater, Achievement in Hair and Makeup Design lost to the team from Les Misérables.

Dave Clayton, Visual Effects lost to the team from Life of Pi.

Host Seth MacFarlane was a smiling assassin host for the event, tossing in the occasional politically incorrect gag but without firming as a memorable host.

The highlights of the night were the musical acts, notably Shirley Bassey and Jennifer Hudson, and a nine year old girl nominated for Beast of the Southern Wild.

This year also included a Live cross to the White House as Michelle Obama announced Argo as the Best Picture.

Nine’s Live broadcast, due to end at 3:45pm continued until 4pm, but Nine denied viewers the closing number with Seth MacFarlane singing “Here’s to the Losers,” instead crossing to Nine News Now with a panel dissecting the fashions. Bonus.

Nine replays the event tonight, but at an even shorter 2.5 hours.

Update: Nine advises Replay will include the Closing Song it trimmed. Not sure if it will be edited or run overtime…

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  2. I understand Seth isn’t everyone’s style. However reading the comments online about how terrible he is and how sexist and stuff is beyond ridiculousness.

    At least there’s mixed and diverse reaction. I really think there’s a double standard though, where people weren’t prepared to accept or like Seth and they over Praise Tina and Amy.

    How is anything Seth said or did more extreme than what Amy and Tina did. Tina Fay basically called Taylor Swift a slut from the stage. They made jokes about Tarantino being in sexual nightmares, it being Torture to be married to James Cameron. About actresses being made to do porn. Jokes about Lena Dunham being abused and forced to do nudity in Girls and many more things.

    Complete double standard.

  3. C.Boy, I’m in regional Queensland and Days of Our Lives wasn’t shown here, they cut the Oscars and went to some comedy show instead, don’t know what it was.
    Us DOOL fans are used to it, they always take it off when cricket is on or The Block encores, hoping to force feed it to us.

  5. Thought Daniel Day-Lewis’s acceptance speech was funnier than Seth MacFarlane’s hosting.

    US friends thought we were fortunate that 9 didn’t show the closing number. They would have preferred not to have seen it.

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