No Country gets the final two major awards, Best Director(s) and Best Picture, making it the clear winner of the night (4). The final two wins for the Coens’ feature tops off what was largely an uneventful night: the winners of all the major Oscars were top candidates save for Marion Cotillard’s win in the best Actress category. (Well, and The Golden Compass winning for Best Special Effects, but that’s a geek thing.)

I thought Jon Stewart was a better host than comedian; his insistence that the other singer/performer for the Best Original Song come back to deliver her thank you speech after the commercial break was really classy.

I wonder where the big party will be now that Vanity Fair’s annual shindig was called off.

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