Live: The Oscars 2011, Part 3

01.54. Variety_KWilder tweets: Two awards down, two horrible acceptance speeches 0152 Someone else loved the start to the ceremony. lstelmach89tweets: Alec Baldwin is just awesome :) Great opening skit from Franco and Hathaway 01.49. Second prize of the night - for cinematography - goes to Wally Pfister for Inception. He says none of what he did could have been possible without director Christopher Nolan - who, notably, is not up for best director. It's Pfister's fourth nomination and first win. 01.47. The art direction prize goes to Alice in Wonderland. Winner Robert Stromberg thanks director Tim Burton and puts a miniature Hatter hat on his statuette and dedicates it to his dad. 01.45. Mixed reviews for the opening skit. @BorowitzReport tweets: The opening is perfectly capturing Hollywood's use of expensive special effects to tepid results. 01.43. We're going to be getting a few trips down memory lane during the ceremony. First up, Gone with the Wind. It provides the backdrop for the first award - for art direction - presented by actor Tom Hanks. 01.40. Hathaway seems quite giddy as she takes to the stage. She jokes about not being up for an award, despite stripping off for her part in Love and Other Drugs. "It used to be - you get naked, you get nominated, but not any more," she says. 01.37. Hathaway and Franco make their way through a number of other films - popping up on horseback in True Grit and in somewhat unflattering tights in Black Swan. The sketch finishes up with the pair of them in the DeLorean from Back to the Future. 01.32. And we're off. The show is under way. It begins with a skit based on the film Inception with hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco - they're trying to go inside former host Alec Baldwin's brain for some tips. 01.27. Variety_KWilder tweets: For about the 8th time, a voice on the loudspeaker tells guests "please take your seat, the show will begin shortly" No one is listening. 01.24. BrandyNicole tweets: Christian Bale, you should have shaved. 01.19. Welsh-born supporting actor nominee Christian Bale pops up on the red - or according to Justin Timberlake, pink - carpet. He says the man he played in The Fighter, Dicky Eklund, is also at the ceremony. 01.16. Quite a few of the stars have mentioned the chilly temperatures. We reckon it's about 13C, or 55F - fairly nippy for LA, especially if you're in a skimpy frock. 01.10. The ceremony will be getting under way in about 20 minutes. Timing is a big issue here - we understand that all the nominees have been told to keep winning speeches to 45 seconds max. Anyone rambling on too long faces being cut off. 01.05. Natalie Portman, baby bump swathed in purple, is here. She says her role in Black Swan was "hard, but amazing" and she loved learning to dance from some of the best ballet performers in the world. If she doesn't win the leading actress gong, we'll eat our hats. 00.58. Anne Hathaway, host of the show, says she feels like "the luckiest girl in the world" - dressed, as she is, in Tiffany jewels. We probably wont get any of the sort of risque jokes from her that we saw from Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. 00.49. Thecarpetbagger tweets: Rupert Murdoch said his father, a stutterer, was also cured by "The King's Speech" therapist Lionel Logue 00.44. Just some numbers for you. There are 5,755 members of the Academy eligible to vote and they had 248 films to choose from for the best picture category. Fifty little gold statuettes have been created for this year's winners, and there are 3,300 seats inside the Kodak auditorium. 00.39. Last year's best actress winner Sandra Bullock has arrived. She's also wearing red - a popular choice tonight. Another one plumping for the colour is Penelope Cruz. The new mum is accompanied by husband Javier Bardem, who's up for the leading actor award. 00.36. Best actor nominee Mark Ruffalo has written an epic 18-tweet acceptance speech "just in case I don't win tonight". He thanks everyone from his wife to his co-stars, his mum and dad and his lawyers. 00.31. As he sweeps along the red carpet, former winner Kevin Spacey gives nominee Jeremy Renner his advice for a good night: have fun and get to the bar as quickly as possible. 00.28. "It's like your wedding day," says Colin Firth, of the Oscars experience. He's asked what he'll be doing on 29 April - the day of the royal wedding - and looks a bit flustered when it takes him a few seconds to realise the significance of the date. 00.24. The Huffington Post is offering its thoughts on Oscars fashion: "Cap sleeves seem big this year, as do dresses with see-through netting across the clavicle that makes it look like sequins are making a slow pilgrimage into the cleavage." 00.21. And now the man of the hour, Colin Firth, with wife Livia. He's already won so many awards for his role as the stammering king and it would be something of a shock if he didn't pick up the leading actor prize again tonight. 00.16. Here's Helena Bonham Carter, actually looking - for her - relatively restrained. The hair is still a bit wild and the black dress a touch theatrical, but definitely not as wacky as some might have expected. Oscar host James Franco has tweeted a pre-Oscar video promising to give updates during the show. His co-host for the night, Anne Hathaway, has also arrived, wearing a red strapless dress. 00.12. Geoffrey Rush, best supporting actor nominee for The King's Speech, arrives on the red carpet. He says he wasn't sure whether a film about "two middle-aged men" would have mass appeal, but he's pleased to have been proved wrong. StyleList tweets: WintersBone star JenniferLawrence looks red hot in @CalvinKlein at the Oscars! Love the simplicity. 0001 The big debate tonight is whether The King's Speech will sweep the board - or whether other films like The Social Network, Black Swan and True Grit will take a decent share of the honours. CosmoOnline tweets: Did you catch Mila Kunis in the lavender Elie Saab gown? So gorgeous! 23.49. Russell Brand, minus Katy Perry, has arrived. The comic has brought his mum rather than his wife - he says Katy is on tour. 23.44. The stars have been arriving on the red carpet. We've seen three of the nominees for best supporting actress - True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld, and Amy Adams and Melissa Leo from The Fighter. Our favourite dress of the three? Melissa Leo's white and gold high-neck number. 23.40. Hello and welcome to our live text coverage of the 83rd Academy Awards. We'll be keeping you up to date with all the fashion, gossip and gongs from the film world's biggest night in Los Angeles. We'll also be getting on-the-spot updates from the BBC's correspondents. By Victoria King and Genevieve Hassan Source: BBC News