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Comments (0)Not surprisingly, members of the Jewish faith were quite well-represented at last night’s Oscars marathon telecast. While some viewers might’ve been less than enamored with the yawn-inducing co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway (who inexplicably played with a dreidel in the opening montage shtick), you can’t argue with some of the results, Jewishly-speaking.
A radiant, prego Natalie Portman snatched the best actress award for her turn as a scarred ballerina in “Black Swan.” Among the Members of the Tribe who stole the limelight for best pic “The King’s Speech” were co-producer Emile Sherman and original screenplay writer David Seidler. Notably, Aaron Sorkin won for adapted screenplay for “The Social Network.”
Meanwhile, Danish director-writer Susanne Bier won for best foreign language film for “In A Better World,” a story of a conflicted family relationship. And an Israeli short doc on the work of the Bialik-Rogozin School in south Tel Aviv won in its category. “Strangers No More,” by American filmmakers Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman, examines the school’s efforts to educate students from 48 countries.
For “Toy Story 3,” director-writer Lee Unkrich accepted the award for best animated feature, and veteran composer Randy Newman won an Oscar for his “TS3” song “We Belong Together.” For sound mixing, the award went to Lora Hirschberg and two of her colleagues for their contributions to “Inception.”
Natch, there were plenty of MOT presenters, including the unforgettable Kirk Douglas, the sexy and bouncy Scarlett Johansson, Billy Crystal, Mila Kunis, Robert Downey Jr. and Steven Spielberg. All in all, quite a night. (Except for the fact that that foul-mouthed Melissa Leo beat out poor little “True Grit” actress Hailee Steinfeld in the best supporting actress category.)