Welcome to FDL Live Blogs the Oscars, well okay the pre-show right now, where we’ll be discussing who’s nominated, who’s arriving, what they’re wearing, and if they are wearing white knots for marriage equality, red ribbons for HIV/AIDS awareness or just some damn tacky borrowed dress and jewelry.

 I’m at a party where everyone brings foods based on the nominated films: There’s Indian of course. And yes there’s milk, tapas (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), gumbo (Trouble the Water) and lots more. I made The Garden salad with greens from the South Central farmers new garden which I got at the organic farmers’ market today in Hollywood. 

Once the actual Oscars start, we’ll be live blogging those and updating the nominees list. There’s an abbreviated one after the jump (sorry, animation fans, sound editors, special effect folks….space considerations.

So let’s settle back and enjoy the gowns, the glitz and the snark that is live blogging the Oscar pre-show.

 And the nominees are:

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    * Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
    * Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
    * Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
    * Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
    * Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actor in a leading role

    * Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
    * Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
    * Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
    * Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
    * Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    * Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
    * Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
    * Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
    * Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
    * Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

    * Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
    * Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
    * Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Best animated feature film of the year

    * “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
    * “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
    * “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Best documentary feature

    * “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
    * “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
    * “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
    * “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
    * “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

    * “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
    * “The Final Inch” Vermilion Films in association with Google.org, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
    * “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
    * “The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

    * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
    * “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
    * “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
    * “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
    * “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

    * “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
    * “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
    * “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
    * “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
    * “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

    * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Alexandre Desplat
    * “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
    * “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
    * “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
    * “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

    * “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
    * “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
    * “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam                 

Adapted screenplay

    * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
    * “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
    * “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
    * “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
    * “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

    * “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
    * “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
    * “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
    * “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
    * “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Achievement in directing

    * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
    * “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
    * “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
    * “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
    * “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best motion picture of the year

    * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
    * “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
    * “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
    * “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
    * “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

 Liveblogging:

3:51 I just got organized..and here’s  melissa Leo in a gorgeous bronze gown..they just lost audio  .

3:55 borrowed jewels, and people watching all over the world

4:01 lots of black, not enough colors–oooo Zac Efron  gets to do something with Huge Hugh Jackman. Zac’s hair is greasy. 

4:03  Who knew 300 million people in Indonesia care about the Oscars?  Which brings up the point that film/entertainment has always been one of greatest exports and the looming strike plus runaway productions has really hurt California–and the US economy.

4:06  Pleas keep track of any white knots for marriage equality and red ribbons for HIV/AIDS awareness, let us know in comments who you spot with them on..and wear one or both yourself!

 4:09: OMG, George Pannichio just LIED! he told Amy Adams how Randolph Duke was saiyng how great she looks, when in reality Duke, the fashion snarker said her dress was great but the necklace makes her

look like a Christmas tree..ring around the collar

4:14 Duke says when times are bad, the glamour comes out..ooh Josh Brolin and Diane Lane..I loved him in American Gangster–he isa great tormented villian–as in W and Milk

okay–I’m gonna gossip in comments for now and live blog during the show..