Brad and Angelina Party Post-Oscars With George, John, and Emily
George Clooney hosted a post-Oscars bash last night in LA. He welcomed friends like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as well as John Krasinski and Emily Blunt.Oscars: 'The Descendants' co-writer Jim Rash on his homage to Angelina Jolie's right leg
One of the best spontaneous moments of comedy during the 84th Annual Academy Awards came courtesy of Jim Rash, co-writer of The Descendants, and the daffy Dean Pelton on NBC’s Community.
After he and collaborators Nat Faxon and Alexander Payne won the Oscar
for Best Adapted Screenplay, Rash chose to spend his time on stage
paying homage to presenter Angelina Jolie’s right-leg-flashing fashion pose.“Honestly, as soon as I saw her pose like that, I was like, ‘I’m going to do that,’” Rash told EW at the Governors Ball after the show. Producers had asked all the nominees, explained Rash, to have only one person speak when there were three or more winners. “I knew Alexander was going to take the reigns, so I was like, ‘How can I make a moment?’ — selfishly,” laughed Rash. “I almost thought it was a little Dean Pelton, somehow. I was bringing it all together. Because I have stood like that [on Community].”
And no, Rash had not yet spoken with Jolie about the moment. Was he at least aware that, while he was doing the pose, Jolie was doing it too, standing in the dark on the far left of the stage? “Are you serious? Oh my god, that’s fantastic.”
Angelina Jolie’s leg steals the Oscars – AWARDS ALLEY
By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: No, she didn’t win an Oscar Sunday night. Instead, Angelina Jolie won THE ENTIRE Oscar telecast.
The big story Monday morning, in wake of a slate of largely predictable winners, is Jolie’s leg. You know, the one she sexily displayed while presenting on stage? It led to Oscar winner Jim Rash’s hysterical pose as he helped Alexander Payne accept the Best Adapted Screenplay awards for “The Descendants.” And then it took on a life of it’s own.
For starters, “Angeline Jolie’ing” is the new “Tebow-ing,” according to this clever meme.
And in case you wanted to follow Angie’s right leg, it also has its own Twitter feed. The feed has more than 10K followers. Man, people move fast.
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Yes. We agree on it. Non stop compliments for Jolie today. #oscars2012 RT @randykharisma: Of course our Miss Gorgeous, Angelina Jolie, who
Best display of anatomy
Hello, I am Angelina Jolie and this is my right leg.
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Angelina Jolie father Jon Voight on leg pose: 'I thought it was great'
Published Monday, Feb 27 2012, 10:00 GMT | By Daniel Sperling
The actress wore a black velvet Atelier Versace dress exposing her right leg and made sure to make the feature prominent throughout the ceremony, most noticeably when she presented the 'Best Adapted Screenplay' and 'Best Original Screenplay' prizes.
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> Jon Voight: 'Angelina Jolie reunion is precious to me'
Asked for his thoughts on Jolie's alluring stance, Voight told Daybreak: "I'm so in love with her of course, as every father's in love with his daughter.
"She comes out and does this pose and waits until people get it, it was so great. The audience responded so wonderfully too, [with] whistles and everything."
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Jolie's pose was mimicked by The Descendants writer Jim Rash when he collected the 'Best Adapted Screenplay' award, though he insisted that it had been "a loving tribute and nothing but".
A spoof Twitter account for her right leg has so far garnered close to 10,000 followers.
Oscars: The Good , The Bad And The Uggie — Hammond Analysis
In the end it was mostly predictable. The only stunning surprise of the 84th Annual Academy Awards was 
that somehow The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo came
out of nowhere to win the Best Film Editing award, something no pundit I
know of saw coming. But it served to stop the early momentum of Hugo which at one point was leading front-runner The Artist 5
awards to 1. Was Harvey Weinstein nervous that there could be an upset
brewing over his heavily favored film? No. When I caught up with him at
the Governor’s Ball he said he was just enjoying the show and not
keeping tabs. Eventually Artist caught up and won all the big
ones, the Oscars everyone was predicting including Best Picture,
director for Michel Hazanavicius and actor for Jean Dujardin in addition
to music and costumes. I am told The Weinstein Company plans to expand
the little-film-that-could on to 2000 screens by next weekend in what
should be a real test of Oscar’s drawing power at the boxoffice. So far
after a little over three months the film has just grossed over $30
million domestically. Weinstein will hope to double that with an Oscar
bounce. Among those congratulating him was Cannes Festival Director
Thierry Fremaux who proudly championed the film at last May’s Cannes
Fest , even switching it from out of competition to a competition slot
where it won 
the
first Best Actor prize of Jean Dujardin’s remarkable run. When I ran
into him at the Gov’s Ball Dujardin told me the Oscar had put him in “a
very happy place”. I told Fremaux that based on the stellar showing of
Cannes titles like Artist, Midnight In Paris and The Tree Of Life in
this year’s Oscar race he had a lot of pressure to repeat the
performance at the upcoming festival in May. Cannes proved itself to be a
formidable start for awards season with a lot of major players. And
what a season for Hazanavicius who has pulled off the unprecedented hat
trick of winning Best Director prizes from the Oscars, the BAFTA
awards, the french Cesar Awards and the DGA. It’s hard to imagine how
someone else with ever be able to pull that off again. Among those he
thanked in his speech was Uggie, the scene stealing Jack Russell Terrier
who turned up on stage after Best Picture was announced and had a nice
bit with Crystal earlier. He should be thanking this dog. He’s getting more talk show bookings than any of the film’s stars.It was a big night for Harvey, further evidence of a major comeback (after last year’s King’s Speech win) and a return to the Oscar dominance he enjoyed all those years in a remarkable run at Miramax. And it wasn’t
just the dominance in major categories of The Artist, the black and white silent film that became the first non-talkie to win the top Oscar since Wings in 1927-28, Oscar’s first year. He also grabbed two Oscars for the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady
including a first Best Actress win in nearly three decades for Meryl
Streep. Weinstein had been campaigning hard for this one , reminding
voters on a daily basis that the 17-time nominee hadn’t won an Oscar in
29 years. It was a relentless campaign theme that obviously paid off the
2-time , now 3-time Oscar winner. At the Governor’s Ball Weinstein
admitted they really wanted this one and got it with the help good
old-fashioned hard core campaigning which included Streep’s rare
participation in select Q&As and interviews such as 60 Minutes.When I caught up with her, also at the Governor’s Ball, Streep was ebullient and clearly excited about having a third Oscar, especially considering the competition including her Doubt co-star Viola Davis. “There were so many great performances this year. I think maybe they should expand the category. Maybe there should be 10 nominees (instead of 5) , “ she told me adding it was nice to get this towards the “end of her career”. Hardly. Streep is going to be working with Weinstein again in the film adaptation of the Tony Winning Play , August Osage County which is scheduled to roll in the Fall co-starring Julia Roberts. At the Governors Ball Davis put on a game face but was clearly disappointed to lose Best Actress for The Help. But it was always going to be an extremely tight race and the two had seesawed back and forth at precursor shows. I thought Davis might eek it out, but it wasn’t to be.
Weinstein
cornered me just before the ceremony to ask why I was so confident in
predicting their company’s Best Documentary nominee underdog , Undefeated as
the winner in that category. I gave him my reasons and after its
surprise victory he said , “You were right . You called that
one”. Saturday night when I ran into them at the Weinstein’s pre-Oscar
Soho House party I had told the three filmmakers (T.J.Martin, Dan
Lindsay and RIchard Middlemas) nominated that I thought they would win
despite pundits predictions they wouldn’t. It’s a powerful film about an
all black high school football team but there were complaints from
other Documentary campaigners that the Weinsteins sent out the DVD
screener of it to all Academy members even though to be able to vote you
have to prove you have seen all five films in theatres. Whatever the
tactic, it worked and Weinstein hopes the Oscar win will increase the
middling business the film has done since its February 17th release.Meanwhile Hugo producer Graham King wasn’t disappointed the Martin Scorsese-directed film-about-film did not go all the way , especially after winning 5 big early techincal awards. He said that is the same number their The Aviator got too before losing to Million Dollar Baby. It’s not a bad haul and GK films also scored the Best Animated Feature Oscar for Rango. King was in a good mood when I saw him after at the Governors Ball, happy his Hugo had tied the Artist for most Oscars of the night.
Mostly
it was all a very predictable ceremony but I thought a good one, at
least from the vantage point of the first Mezzanine where the Cirque Du
Soleil number looked simply spectacular and the ambience of the setting
of an old movie palace was pitch perfect, right down
to traditional-looking movie ushers handing out popcorn and candy
during commercial breaks. Nice touch. Billy Crystal didn’t always land
his schtick but he got off some good zingers and the opening film
sequence and song was a winner in the room. He makes this gig work
about as well as anyone can. There were a lot of jokes about the old age
of many in the Academy which couldn’t have pleased Acad officials who
are still trying to prove they can be young and hip. He also was funny
after Academy President Tom Sherak’s dryly-delivered speech. “Thanks
Tom for whipping this crowd into a frenzy,” Crystal joked.
The
show flowed nicely and got off just seven minutes over the alloted
three hours according to producer/director Don Mischer in our
conversation at the Governor’s Ball. He was cautiously optimistic that
the response would be good when reviews roll in Monday but not counting
on it, especially after last year when the show was lambasted in the
press. Critics do love to pounce on the Oscars. I pointed out one trade
paper actually ran a formal online review of the first 30 minutes of the
show while it was still going on. “That’s just evidence that
we are now judged minute by minute. Times have changed,” Mischer said —
and not necessarily for the better. But maybe that is the lure and
power of the Oscars that media types feel they have to jump the gun and
be there first. He can take solace in the fact that most of the people
at the Governors Ball seemed very enthused by the breezy Oscar show, one
of the all-time shortest (at least in the modern era) at three hours
and seven minutes according to Mischer. That could help the ratings but
it is still expected to come in on the low side due to the fact that the
movies nominated this year were not big blockbusters that can bring in
an audience. Foreign Language Film presenter Sandra Bullock told me she
thought the whole show was really great, a sentiment I heard more than
once at the nicely appointed Governors Ball where Tony Bennett
entertained. Usually it is a quick stop and then off to Vanity Fair and
other parties , but this year (eschewing the formal sit-down dinner
routine) it was still going well past 11pm with nominees like Streep and
Dujardin still there. Streep later made it to the packed Weinstein’s
after party at Mondrian’s Sky Bar where the celebration continued for
TWC.
Among
the highlights of the show were the standing ovations for Supporting
Actress winner Octavia Spencer and Supporting Actor winner Christopher
Plummer who wryly noted that at age 82 he was only two years younger
than Oscar himself (and now the oldest performer to ever win). As she
was leaving the Ball I walked down the stairs with Spencer and asked how
she felt about the whole night. “It’s crazy town, it’s crazy town,” is
all she could say at that point sounding a little shell shocked and
loopy. Her earlier emotional acceptance scored big points as did many
of the speeches, particularly those of Streep, Dujardin, Foreign
Language winner Asaghi Farhadi, Live Action Short Subject winner Terry
George and the Live Action Documentary short winners for the harrowing Saving Face. It
was also nice to see full-on glamour return to the show thanks to
presenters like Angelina Jolie who had a whole lotta leg going on and
the teaming of Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez.Another class act of the night was Best Actor nominee Gary Oldman who got up during the commercial break after losing Best Actor to Dujardin and sought out each of the other nominees to presumably commiserate or console them. Whatever the purpose it was a nice thing to do for George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Demian Bichir who were locked in a tight race. As for Dujardin he charmingly nailed his acceptance speech opening with the line, “I love your country”. Indeed he should since he was snubbed by his own country Friday night at the Cesar awards where he was passed over for another , Omar Sy in the Best Actor competition despite the sweep of The Artist.
And clearly this country loves Dujardin and his movie, or at least Academy members do. Now if it can just translate that love into boxoffice gold it could mean the silent era is baaaaack.
Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne and leg extender Jim Rash accepting their Oscar. (Mark J. Terrill - AP)
Screenwriter Jim Rash says he was not making fun of Angelina Jolie when he decided to show a little leg on the Academy Awards stage Sunday night. But while standing up there to accept his Oscar for “The Descendants” screenplay, the urge to strike a Jolie-style pose could not be resisted.
For those who missed the thigh-flashing moment of the year, while presenting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, Jolie assumed a position that exposed her admittedly exceptional right leg via the slit in her Atelier Versace gown. It was a move that she had already busted out on the Oscar red carpet, as well as one that has inspired its own Twitter feed.
Jolie, knocking us out with her American thigh. (ROBYN BECK - AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Yes, AngiesRightLeg has already amassed more than 11,000 followers since last night, based on such tweets as:”I’m a leg!,” “Don’t forget about the leg!” and “You have to admit, I’m one hell of a leg.”
When Rash — along with his fellow winners in the adapated screenplay category, Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon — rose to accept the award, the motivation to mimic came over him.
“It was just an impulse,” he told me at the Governors Ball. “I was just standng there and I thought--” At this point, he paused to, once again, stick his leg out.
“I hope it was okay,” Rash, aka Dean Pelton from TV’s “Community” and former member of the Groundlings improv troupe, said. “I hope she thought it was okay. It was a loving tribute.”
It’s unclear whether Jolie thought it was loving or not. But was it funny to many of the people watching the Oscars at home? That’s a definite yes.
