Hello and welcome to The Dissolve's first annual Oscars live chat. Here, Dissolve staffers will offer an ongoing, freewheeling commentary about the 86th annual Academy Awards. We'll be promoting many comments from readers and presenting polls and other fun asides throughout the evening. We hope you'll join the disucssion and watch along with us. (About the RSVP: Submit your email address and you'll receive a reminder about this event. Nothing else will be done with the information and RSVPing is not required to join the chat.)

We will be promoting select reader comments into the main live chat window throughout the night. Feel free to converse in the comments section as well.