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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. Just watching the replay and thankfully it seems 9 hasn’t cut or edited anything. They’ve also extended the set running time until a bit past 1am now when I think it earlier said around 12 midnight. So everything now seems good! 🙂

  5. I managed to avoid all spoilers so I could watch the Oscars when I got home from work (very hard to do lol)
    Being a big music fan I was looking forward to the performances –
    Jennifer Hudson – gave me goosebumps – breathtaking
    Dame Shirley Bassey – incredible, she still has it, what a voice
    Adele – looked really nervous & the band drowned her out especially in the choruses.
    Barbra Streisand – amazing storyteller! Idol / X Factor kids – when the judges say you aren’t connecting – hope you were watching this – she’s one class act!
    Les Mes cast – fantastic – how amazing is Hugh – when the girl tripped gong up to the stage, Hugh was up ready to help – he’s too good to be true :))

  8. If Nine didn’t show the 2 minute promo (sorry “sneak peak”) of The Great Australian Bake Off before the show they could have fit in the closing song

  9. Not to spam the thread. I just want to say I liked Seth as a host. I am seeing really mixed things online.

    I think he was as good as anyone and it’d be great to have him back next year!

  10. I have just got home from work. Very disappointing to hear about all the Aussies lucking out yet again. I haven’t seen Argo so must check it out.

    How did the Maggie Simpson short The Longest Daycare go?

  11. I want to add further, treating the broadcast and the viewers in such a manner. Clearly shows Nine was only interesting in getting the live broadcast away from Foxtel. Not in actually providing a good service to the viewer.

    There is no point in showing the live broadcast if you are not going to do it properly.

    People wonder why the commercial networks have problems. People complain about foxtel with all it’s ads and repeats. However they treat content and respect the viewer.

    You’d be shocked if they did something like this. However as annoyed am I am, i’m not at all surprised nine would do this. It’s the low standards and treatment you expect by the network.

  12. TV networks and the like hate the fact viewers can bypass them mostly and watch online yet keep giving reasons why we should do exactly that. Closing number on YouTube…

  13. Not that I care about the oscars or Nine, but in their defense the telecast was meant to end at 3:45. Its not like they cut off the announcing of any actual awards. That would be a bad thing.

    Seven and Ten both regularly cut of credits too.

  14. Seriously what the **** is up with Channel Nine. Whenever they broadcast one of these they some how stuff something up. I was so annoyed no one on Foxtel had it live this year.

    There I was fast forwarding through the news wondering where the crap the closing number was. Especially seeing it was well known they were doing one this year.

    Can we have a blanket rule that Nine never ever broadcasts any of these award shows ever again. Surely a few years ago when on the delayed broadcasts before we were getting lives ones, when they edited out awards like best foreign picture should have revoked their right to ever broadcast it again.

    It really pisses me off. So what now, I have to tape the whole thing to fast forward to the end. This is not acceptable for a network to behave.

  16. Yes, truly horrible of 9 to cut if off and it had net even finished? Wtf?

    Seth said he’d be back after the sponsors messages, or some such, but it went to a news update and stayed there, where they talked about the Oscars and the show hadn’t even finished yet? Huh?

    I’d be hoping to see it in full tonight, but if the past is to go by, they cut chunks out of it, so sadly we might not even get the full thing there. 🙁

    Grrr.. Why did they have to do this in the first place. Did they really think it was finished?

  17. It was a good Oscars…but there were sound issues….and cripes…could we have not missed a few minutes more of news to see it through to the end….although maybe his opening song scared them off…….
    I was going to rewatch tonight…but will pass on a chopped up version.

  19. Not happy Channel 9. I wanted to see the whole telecast. You cheated me out of the last few minutes. I can’t even write anything more because I am so annoyed. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!

  21. Thanks for the note on Nine cutting it short! As I said in the highlights for today post, disgraceful that they cut it. Why have it if they aren’t going to show it in full? I feel sorry for those watching tonight who have to see the butchered version. Here’s hoping Foxtel get the rights back next year…

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