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The montage in the beginning set to 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross from 'The Social Network' was AMAZING.”

The Oscars just used Beethoven’s 7th Symphony for the Best Picture montage. SWOON.”

Two of the most impressive moments of the evening were the montages of the 10 Best Picture nominees that opened the show (accompanied by 'The Social Network's' version of 'In the Hall of the Mountain King') and lead into the Best Picture win (framed around the big speech of 'The King's Speech'). Maybe they showed favoritism to 'The Social Network' and 'The King's Speech,' but they were ingeniously edited, and one of the rare times the craft of the show equaled the craft of the work it was honoring.”

I thought the best picture montage with the King’s speech over the images of the nominees was outstanding. The words synced with the action onscreen brilliantly. Nobody cried about the Inception opening as being unfair. Some films just lend themselves to the proceedings in different ways.”

Credits designer Kyle Cooper did an excellent job with the graphics and special montages. The Best Picture montage was superb, even though it contained a spoiler by treating us to Colin Firth's climactic, stutter-free missive from ‘The King's Speech.’”

This may have been a spoiler, but it was absolutely brilliant how his speech tied all these movies together.”

I can understand the grousing about the final clip montage announcing the 10 Best Picture nominees, since it allowed 'The King’s Speech' to lord over the other nominees by using Colin Firth’s final monologue from the film as all the clips were shown. But it didn’t bother me, seeing as how expertly the lines matched the scenes being shown. Besides, the employment of Beethoven’s 'Symphony No. 7' (also used in the film) would make even a Pampers commercial seem inspiring.”

Reminds a lot of last year, but I thought Kyle Cooper's Best Picture montage with 'The King's Speech' was very nice.”

Cripes was that Best Picture montage ever spoiler-ific!”

It's motherly insight into what their child was like growing up and where they ended up and their reaction to where they are today....We're trying to make the whole Oscars more relatable...Everybody's got a mom and they always embarrass us.”

I'm really enjoying this Best Picture nominees montage scored to Beethoven and Colin Firth in 'The King's Speech.' It's one of the best montage sequences the Academy has ever done.”

Rush said hearing that 'The King’s Speech' took Best Picture was remarkable and he was blown away. He said Steven Spielberg was sitting behind him and leaned forward to say there was a very special hook to the Best Picture nominee montage that he thought would blow him away. Rush said when they played all of the King’s speech from the film throughout the bits of the other films, ‘I thought it was a great, great year for strong visuals.’”

This year, those tributes were mercifully absent, and the only montages left were stirringly cut sequences that emphasized the movies that were actually nominated this year. Fancy that!”

Okay. That Best Picture Montage was Awesome. It really was!”

For those who might have missed The Academy Awards Sunday Night, here was the highlight of the ceremonies – a two and a half minute montage of the ten films nominated for Best Picture.”

The Best Picture montage showing clips of all 10 Best Picture nominees with 'The King’s Speech' score and speech recited by Colin Firth playing over them was absolutely brilliant. The only thing that would’ve made it better is if it ended with the word 'Class' over a background of a hounds tooth hat. ”

...a great opening and closing montage (I want the final speech from 'The King's Speech' to narrate everything I do from now on)...”

Ludwig’s triumph, and that of the film he’d elevated towards Hollywood immortality, was sealed when the montage of scenes from the ten Best Picture nominees was screened to that King’s speech and Beethoven’s symphony. Again, music gave the game away.”

This best picture montage is BEAUTIFUL.”

The broadcast began with a bang, a montage of the 10 best-picture nominees set to the music of Edvard Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' that created excitement and suspense.”

The ‘Mominee’ interviews in the preshow were great! The moms were so proud, said such wonderful things, and helped remind you that there are regular people who were once kids with dreams behind those celebrity personalities. Also, I loved that they did not only interview moms of the main acting categories, but moms of behind-the-camera nominees as well.”

...genuinely moving moments, a beautifully crafted Best Picture montage, even if tilted toward the King (it made me want to see all of the movies again -- even the one's I didn't like as much).”

Bonham Carter said she was thrilled Oscar producers chose to use dialogue from 'The King's Speech' to thread the best-picture nominees together in a montage before presenting the final award. ‘I thought it was amazing,’ she said.”

The Auto-Tune Movie Musicals section was cute. As were the opening clip montage by Kyle Cooper and the 'Inception' themed montage comedy opening skit.”

The Best Picture montage that aired on Sunday night's Oscars show before the final award of the night was one of the most striking and dramatic montages on an Oscar show in years, cutting back and forth and drawing connections between striking moments in all 10 nominees.”

The montages, which usually get flack for being unenjoyable and just plain boring, were actually entertaining. One notable case showed clips of the Best Picture nominees while Colin Firth’s now-famous speech from 'The King’s Speech' played in the background.”

The show starts with an awesome montage of the Best Picture nominees, set to really awesome music.”

Moms’ pride was evident during the Oscar pre-show on Sunday as moms of nominees shared stories about their children on the Red Carpet.”

But that best picture montage was really something. All 10 movies were stitched together into a single inspired short film that looks like it required a lot of research. Give that movie the Oscar.”

When the film escalates toward its conclusion as Bertie gives his pivotal speech to the people of England (now infamously used as the backdrop to a best-picture montage at the Oscars), Hooper successfully exposes the tiny dramas and very real people that exist behind moments in history.”

Best Picture Montage: Rousing music? Check. Colin Firth’s 'King’s Speech' monologue? Check. Perfectly chosen scenes? Check. The Best Picture montage was the perfect time-cutting solution and brought all the Oscar season pathos we love to a well-crafted pinnacle. It’s things like this that remind us why we love film — and the Oscars.”

By the time they got to Best Picture, the producers had even given up trying to hide who was going to win, as Colin Firth’s voice narrated and tied together the montage of all 10 nominees.”

Best-picture presenter Steven Spielberg pointed out that the nine losing films would join those as hallowed as “Citizen Kane” and “Raging Bull” in defeat – and the stirring montage of the ten nominated films that followed was the best part of the entire show.”