Live Blogging: Technical Awards

Those Wallace and Gromit guys were, well, wired for sound. Bowties. Giant bowties. My. Oh. My.

And of course King Kong had to win best visual effects. But when is Andy Serkis going to get an acting role where he's not a visual effect?

Ben Stiller as "green screen." Tom Hanks in the timing skit. I think I see a pattern here: this is the zany Oscars. Apparently, with a host who can't sing, they can't go to musical numbers. And Jon Stewart isn't really a stand-up comic, not like Steve Martin or Chris Rock. Let's keep an eye out . . . for more zaniness.