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9:53 PM — I made this post. Hugh Jackman is singing. OMG BEYONCE!

"The Musical is Back" montage with Hugh, Beyonce, Zac, Vanessa and others. A couple of pics:

9:58 PM — Commercial time, Supporting Actor supposedly coming up…

10:03 PM — Christopher Walken, Kevin Kline, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Alan Arkin and Joel Grey are on stage to present Actor in a Supporting Role

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

10:13 PM — Bill Maher out to present Documentary awards. Makes joke about everyone crying for Heath. Makes joke about not being nominated for "Religulous."

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Conscience of Nehm En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306

10:19 PM — Commercial. Up next: Action montage and "tribute to a comedy legend."

10:23 PM – Action film montage; lots of cars.

10:26 PM — Will Smith out to present Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Film Editing Awards

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

SOUND EDITING
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

SOUND MIXING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

FILM EDITING
Frost/Nixon
The Dark Knight
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

10:37 PM — Commercial; never thought I’d be so excited to say that…

10:41 PM — Eddie Murphy out to present the Jean Hersholt Award to Jerry Lewis, AKA time to go pee and make coffee!

10:46 PM — Commercial. Up next: The music and songs of this year’s top films, plus ~the most anticipated awards of the evening~

10:51 PM – The Academy Awards Orchestra plays a selection of this year’s nominated scores/songs.

10:51 PM — Zac Efron and Alicia Keys out to present awards for Original Score and Original Song; Academy realizes they’re going over time and (thankfully) cuts any sort of small talk between the two of them.

ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

10:56 PM — Original Song nominee performances.

ORIGINAL SONG
"Down to Earth" — WALL-E
"Jai Ho" — Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya" — Slumdog Millionaire

11:02 PM — Commercial. Up next: awards for Foreign Film, Actor and Actress.

11:05 PM — Liam Neeson and Freida Pinto out to present award for Foreign Language Film

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz with Bashir

11:08 PM — Commercial. Up next (or so they say): Actor and Actress

11:11 PM (Make a wish!) — Queen Latifah sings a tribute to those who have passed away in the last year.