[Updated update] Jake Gyllenhaal presents and walks the red carpet! Happy Birthday Peter! Duncan Jones tweets about SC and more...

Update (again!) Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdmas presented Best Adapted Screenplay to Precious. Upon presenting the award and walking off camera, Jake and the winner shared a huge grin!






Many many thanks to IHJ for fabulous pictures of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal on the red carpet!






And from Just Jared:


At last! Jake Gyllenhaal walks the red carpet. In this interview, with AP, Jake Gyllenhaal told the interviewer, who'd just spoken to Maggie and Peter, that she was caught in a Gyllenhaal Sandwich. Maggie had just mentioned 'he's caught up!'. Tribute was paid to Peter wearing his wedding tux while Jake said he was wearing Burberry and rooting for his sister. Jake was also interviewed for E! so hopefully we'll be able to see that later.






Thanks to Get Real for the heads up!

Updated - Maggie Gyllenhaal at the Oscars in a beautiful dress...


... and the birthday boy!


As Hollywood wakes up to Oscar Day - if indeed it went to bed - we still have time to bake a cake, defrost a trifle and tie some ribbons because today is Peter Sarsgaard's birthday! Further excuse, if any were needed, for Peter and Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal to float down that red carpet tonight and shine with happiness, irrespective of the result for Maggie and for An Education. So happy birthday Peter from WDW!


Before we look at what's going on in LA, we've had our first 140-word reports from the Source Code set in Montreal thanks to director Duncan Jones and a certain social networking site. Over to Duncan: 'So! 1st week on Source Code: built a train, and it's a beauty, but a bugger to shoot on. JG & MM are such a good laugh! Love em to bits.'

'SC has more humour in it than we saw on the page, & that's been great fun! Shot some of our effects tests & they're wonderfully horrible!'


So what do we learn from this? 1) Duncan loves Jake Gyllenhaal to bits - this is hardly surprising because Love Him To Bits is actually Jake's middle name. It can't hurt that Duncan loves Michelle Monaghan to bits as well. 2) 'wonderfully horrible' effects - love it! 3) Duncan built a train which shows that not only is he a talented director he's also handy wth a spot of glue, sticky tape, corrugated cardboard and paint. 4) Source Code might be gruesome (I'm thinking it's gruesome) but it's also funny. 5) I can't wait to see this film.


The Oscars... despite Peter's advice to Carey Mulligan that she shouldn't drink a lot before the Oscars because she's going to drink a lot after the Oscars, there is every chance that there are some pre-Oscar fluffy heads this morning thanks to a night of parties. The main bash Jake attended was the Montblanc Charity Cocktail at Soho House in LA, hosted By The Weinstein Company. 'Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling, Gwen Stefani also partied loud and well into the early hours of Sunday morning.' According to tweeting Jared 'Jake G [was] chatting up Emile Hirsch and his BFF Jamis Foxx.'


Earlier yesterday, Jake was among the many stars rehearsing for the Oscars and this was followed by the first big party of Saturday: The Night Before party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. This event demonstrates very well the big gap between being a star and not being one, because while star after star swans in for sushi, wine and erudite conversation, the likes of me ends up hiding in the coat rack. Admittedly, I hadn't paid $25,000... This still ranks as one of my most fun experiences during my Gyllenhaalic years and I recommend to anyone hanging out in the Polo Lounge on the night before the Oscars. My story is here for anyone who's interested.

Good luck to everyone tonight, kudos to Sandra Bullock for her Razzle acceptance speech and happy birthday Peter! It's been a while but Jake will be back at the Oscars.


It's going to be a long night. I can almost smell the hairspray and shoe polish from here.

Oscar livestreaming here

Includes pictures from IHJ.l M