• Miley Ray Cyrus enters the coliseum. We are one incremental step closer to the end.
• Jon Stewart, witty stuff, good job. Classy move giving the Once singer/songwriter Marketa Irglova a chance to say her piece after being rudely ushered offstage by the music cue cut-off.
• Diablo Cody wins “Best Original Screenplay.” Where does her fairy tale career go from here?
• No memoriam dedication to actors Brad Renfro and Roy Scheider. I don’t care about the dates covered. Bad taste!
• Bardem takes the Supporting Actor award for playing “some expressionless guy who goes around blowing shit up.” More>
• Plainview drinks the Academy’s milkshake. Now we can all officially stop referencing “that” scene.
• Introduced by Marty, the Coen Brothers take home a couple of little golden men in their usual aloof demeanor.

Overall analysis: yawn.

Related: What’s really going down at the Independent Spirit Awards.

[Sorry, I had to say it. I'm a little late on this one but it's still worth noting.]

Whether he was chugging chum off the Orca, dancing to save his life or keeping Popeye Doyle from cracking skulls, Roy Scheider was the one of the great everyman actors. The last film I saw him in was Klute where he played the slick, meat locker cool pimp Frank Ligourin.

Roy Scheider was 75. Check out his roles in film and television and see how an old pro did it.