Oh, you know the Oscar drill already: Marion Cotillard surprised everyone by winning Best Actress for La Vie en Rose, further proving the rule that if you go ugly for a movie role, you will win. Poor Julie Christie just looked too beautiful. Otherwise, Tilda Swinton delivered the best speech for winning Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. The men's races were yawners. Of course, Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men, and Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. No Country for Old Men was picture of the year. LAist provides live-blogs and recaps.

However, after all the class, glamour, and high art, Bostonist still can't get the image of loopy Gary Busey crashing Ryan Seacrest's interview with Jennifer Garner. Jennifer Garner clearly didn't know who Gary Busey was when he showed up, but she sure knows who he is now! Ben Affleck knows who Busey is now, too. The Businator hasn't apologized and announced he's off to rehab, not yet.

With the Oscar-Mania, it's hard to care about the weekend box office. What did the studios dump on the audiences this weekend? The heavily promoted action flick Vantage Point. Be Kind Rewind with Jack Black and Mos Def remaking the flicks at their VHS rental store, opened in 7th. Rewind sounded a little too fanciful and cutesy, but Brett Michel at the Phoenix gave the movie credit for the final scene, which expresses "the transformative power of laughter."

We were curious about how Larry the Cable Guy's Witless Protection would fare. Apparently fart comedy is out these days, as the flick opened 13th in its first week. Steven Schaefer at the Boston Herald gave it a B-, but this is Larry the Cable Guy and we're talking about, and we're still not gonna watch it. Even if Yaphet Kotto is in it.

And, in case you haven't noticed, the city is crawling with movie stars again. Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner are in town to shoot Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, while Leonardo DiCaprio is here to shoot Ashecliffe.

Image of Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose from IMDB.