Congratulations to Freeheld, the documentary about NJ Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester’s attempts to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, as she was dying of cancer, which won the Oscar last night for best Documentary Short Subject. I have yet to see this, but I intend to.

The names of the nominees in this category were read to the Oscar audience by a group of soldiers in Iraq. A different member of the military announced the name of each film, and, ironically, the guy who announced Freeheld was a cute little gayboy Navy officer. (He sounded that way, at least.) Here’s the video.

The soliders didn’t announce the nominees for Best Documentary Feature, though. Two of those were about Iraq, a third was about extraordinary rendition, and a fourth was a Michael Moore movie. I guess that would have been a bit too much.