Live: The Oscars 2011, Part 1

All times are GMT (Los Angeles time is eight hours behind GMT). You will need to refresh your page to get updates. 07.00. Well, we're going to wrap things up now. Thanks very much for joining us. The King's Speech has ruled supreme tonight, but Inception, The Social Network and The Fighter also picked up plaudits. The stars will carry on partying for hours yet, but it's bed time for us. See you next year! 06.52. Former Oscar winner Kevin Spacey was executive producer of The Social Network. He says he's proud of its achievements, not least the fact that it has joined an illustrious band of acclaimed films, including Citizen Kane and Raging Bull, not to win best picture. 06.48. Harpers Bazaar has picked the 10 best dressed women at the Oscars. It loved Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, who wore pale colours - cream and silver. 06.41. It seems like everyone loved Colin Firth in The King's Speech, including the host of last year's Oscars, Hugh Jackman. "He was amazing. A terrific actor, very humble," he tells the BBC. After giving a high-five to our reporter, Australian Jackman adds gratefully: "Thanks for not mentioning the Ashes." 06.37. The official verdict on The King's Speech from Madonna? "I love it!" 06.34. ABC Australia has given a scathing review of the Oscar hosts: "Disappointing night for James Franco and Anne Hathaway, who got off to a poor start as co-hosts and never recovered. Great night for David Letterman, who may be off the hook as worst Oscar host in history." 06.28. For the stat lovers among you. True Grit was nominated for 10 awards, but didn't win a single one. Another film in that unenviable position was Gangs of New York in 2002. 06.23. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks says Colin Firth is "a magnificent actor" and he is "delighted" director Tom Hooper picked up an award. Hooper and Hanks have worked together before - Hooper directed the mini-series John Adams, about the US president, which Hanks executive produced. 06.17. The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin tells the BBC about his win for best adapted screenplay. "It felt great to be up there. If I looked happy that was nothing compared to how I felt." He goes on to praise The King's Speech, adding: "It's been an incredible year for movies." 06.13. Cameron Diaz tells the BBC that Colin Firth's performance in The King's Speech was "wonderful". She's going to be working with him in the forthcoming Coen brothers remake of Gambit - she says she hasn't met him yet, but can't wait. 06.10. Piers Morgan tells the BBC it was "a great night for the Brits", but the ceremony was "a little dull". He says he thinks the hosts ought to be comedians. 06.06. To any Geordies out there, you might be interested to know that Tom Hooper - Oscar-winning director for The King's Speech - began his career on Byker Grove. From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks. 06.00. According to Hollywood Reporter, host Anne Hathaway came on stage during a commercial break with a bingo machine and picked out a seat in the theatre - the owner of which received a plate of sushi. They probably needed the sustenance, it was a very long ceremony. 05.51. Ralph Fiennes tells the BBC at the Vanity Fair party he's "very happy to see Colin win best actor". He says he's a big fan of both Firth and his King's Speech co-star Geoffrey Rush. 05.47.The Daily Telegraph has also chosen its sartorial highs and lows. Among those missing the mark were, it thinks, Reese Witherspoon, Sharon Stone and Jennifer Hudson. 05.42. If you want to catch up on all the developments, you can see the full list of nominees and winners here. 05.34. E! redcarpet tweets: Natalie Portman backstage at the Oscars: "The baby was definitely kicking during the song portion of the show." 05.27..Speaking of Franco, he continued to tweet to the end with his sneaky videos - there's even a clip of him while Sandra Bullock was giving his testimonial. He's gone quiet now though and hasn't commented on losing out to Colin Firth. 05.22. The Washington Post gives its verdict on Anne Hathaway and James Franco as hosts. "She worked her derriere off and he came across like that lacrosse boy you wish your daughter didn't hang out with so much. She spent the evening trying hard to do the very good job (with iffy results), trying to really sell it, and he's all, like, 'lax, bro." 05.15. The BBC's Colin Patterson, enjoying the after show festivities in LA, reminds us that Colin Firth was actually third choice for the role of the stammering king. Writer David Seidler wanted Paul Bettany, while director Tom Hooper wanted Hugh Grant. Bet they're glad with how things worked out! 05.10. The Guardian has done a round-up of the fashion hits and misses. It marvels at Scarlett Johansson's incredibly tight number and wonders if she was winched in by helicopter, rather than having to walk. 05.05. Empire Online blogs: Most of the awards went entirely as predicted, and even those that could've gone either way went the most obvious way. We're pleased for the little film that definitely could, with The King's Speech following an Oscar trend set in the last couple of years whereby small, indie movies are doing better than Hollywood heavyweights. 05.00. mysterymoor tweets: To be honest. I loved the King's Speech and I think Colin's Oscar was deserved but best film? Really? 04.52. To bring you up to speed on the night's biggest winners. The King's Speech and Inception both won four awards each. The former picked up best picture, actor, original screenplay and director - mostly "people" awards, so to speak. The latter, on the other hand, took the more technical prizes, for cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects. 04.46. quick13 tweets: Not one surprise in the entire Oscars broadcast. Every single favourite won across the board. 04.39. Just a bit more from Colin Firth's best actor acceptance speech. He said: "I have to warn you that I am experiencing stirrings somewhere in the upper abdominals that are threatening to form themselves into dance moves. Joyous as they might be for me, it would be extremely problematic if they made it to my legs before I get offstage." 04.37. The best picture Oscar goes to The King's Speech. That makes the film's tally for the night four awards out of a possible 12. 04.35. Hathaway - in what must be her sixth or seventh dress of the night - and Franco now hand over to director Steven Spielberg to run through the 10 films in line for the final award of the night - best picture. 04.32. NerdGirlBlogger tweets: I knew Natalie was going to win the award for Leading Actress! I love her for naming minor crew members from The Black Swan! 0429 "I've a feeling my career just peaked," says Firth, accepting his award. Visibly moved, he's self-deprecating throughout. 04.26. Colin Firth wins the award for best actor. Like Natalie Portman, we all thought it was coming. It's his second Oscar nomination in a row - last year he was up for A Single Man. 0423 Moving on to the men. It falls to best actress of 2010 Sandra Bullock to run through the contenders - Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Colin Firth and James Franco. 04.20. Portman can't hold back the tears completely, but she manages not to lose it. She calls Swan director Darren Aronofsky "a fearless leader, a visionary", and thanks her fiance, Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed the film. 04.17. Natalie Portman is named best actress. No surprise there, she's won everything going for her performance in Black Swan. 04.14. It's now time for the best actress award. Jeff Bridges - last year's best actor - is going through the women in line for the gong one by one. They are Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams. 04.11. TheInSneider tweets: WOW! Wonder if there will still be a split. Can't believe TOM HOOPER won for his first movie! Felt like Fincher was a sure-thing 04.09. ZeitchikLAT tweets: Wow, Social Network editing win. So do Fincher et al win Best Picture after all? This is down to the wire 04.06. Hooper refers to "the triangle of man-love" between Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and himself. It's a nice speech, one of the night's best. 04.03. Tom Hooper wins best director for The King's Speech. He calls it "an extraordinary honour". 04.01. ABC Australia blogs: The best documentary director makes the first mildly political snipe of the night - at Wall St execs he thinks should be in jail. Mild cheers. Certainly not on the Michael Moore-George Bush level from a couple of years ago. 03.58 .Halle Berry also pays a special tribute to pioneering black actress and civil rights activist Lena Horne, who died last year. 03.54. Now the part of the evening when the Academy remembers those stars who have died in the last year. The faces on the screen include Tony Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper and Pete Postlethwaite. 03.52. By the way, Randy Newman's victory was only his second in 20 nominations. Even he admits his stats aren't the best. 03.49. Just the four biggest awards to go now - best director, actress, actor and picture. Place your bets now. 03.47. Two more of the nominees for best original song perform short bursts of their respective efforts. First Florence Welch and A R Rahman, followed by Gwynneth Paltrow. But the winner of the award is Randy Newman, for We Belong Together, from Toy Story 3. 03.44. CurlySueTweets: 4th technical one for Inception but I wish the voters had seen the story in it and recognized Nolan's talent 03.42. E! redcarpet tweets: Christian Bale has a question for the backstage Oscars press: Did he thank his Fighter co-stars on stage? He's pleased to hear he did. 03.39.Paul Franklin, winner of the visual effects award, has been blogging for the BBC News website, telling us all about the Oscars experience. Well done Paul! 03.36. The award for film editing goes to The Social Network. By Victoria King and Genevieve Hassan Source: BBC News