Hugh Jackman brought his big gun to last night’s Oscars. Bang?
Oscars were doled out last night! Yay for Milk‘s Sean Penn for snagging Best Actor and Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black for nabbing Best Original Screenplay. Both of them spoke out for gay rights onstage, and then backstage talking to reporters. Penn joked that his win was a big score for “commie homo-loving sons-of-guns”, championed gay marriage and called out anti-gay haters.
Kate Winslet, Sean Penn and Penelope Cruz backstage. Congrats, kids.
Black was more moving, telling the press backstage: “Harvey gave me his story, and it saved my life. And I just felt like it’s time to pass it on. The only thing I really knew I wanted to say is tell those [gay and lesbian] kids out there they are going to be all right.”
Watch video of Black and Penn talking gay rights backstage at the Oscars!
Gay activist and Harvey Milk cohort Cleve Jones and Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black. Good gays!
Entertaiment Weekly has a great write-up of lots of the best acceptance speeches… And yes, Hugh Jackman sang and danced a lot. It didn’t all work, and the show went on forever, but God bless him, he gave it his all. And looked uber-handsome.
Slumdog Milionaire won eight Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director for Danny Boyle) and Kate Winslet won Best Actress. Get more pics after the jump and a good dish from EW here.
The most jubilant kids’ table at an Oscars party ever: the young cast of Slumdog Millionaire.
Zac Efron, Beyonce, Hugh Jackman & Amanda Seyfried… This is what happens when the man behind Dreamgirls and Chicago takes over the Oscars. SHOWBIZZZZZZZ!
Hugh Jackman sat on Frank Langella’s lap during the show. Frank Langella is a very lucky man.
Miley Cyrus showed up looking like an enchanted prom date from “Spaceballs.” But hey… She’s like what, 16? At least she didn’t vamp it up like a 38-year-old, right?
And evidently, Robert Pattinson just looks like this even when he’s not playing a vampire.
Whoa. Sophia Loren brought the heavy-duty old-school glamour. And the bronzer. And perhaps an entire rigging system to keep this look upright. But who cares? She’s 75 and she’s Sophia Loren.
