Oscar Noms: Weaver drops the F Bomb, McFarlane drops H Bomb

The charmingly ever frank Aussie actress Jacki Weaver has revealed she dropped the F Bomb when she heard she’d scored a second Oscar nomination after her first for Animal Kingdom in 2011, this time for her performance as Bradley Cooper’s ‘Mom’ and Robert De Niro's wife in Silver Linings Playbook. (scroll down for the trailer)

And all while rugged up in Qantas pyjamas. Weaver was flying to Texas to shoot Parkland in which she’ll play mother to Lee Harvey Oswald when she heard the news.

"I wasn't sleeping well so I turned on the TV. I honestly wasn't expecting it, and it did take me quite by surprise,” she told Movieline. “I yelled out a rude word. That word began with f as in Freddie. And it sounded like the way Australians say 'park'."

Meanwhile, Family Guy and Ted creator Seth McFarlane who’ll host the Oscars next month, caused a storm of controversy when he announced Michael Haneke’s Amour in the Best Foreign Language category at Thursday’s nominations ceremony;

"I read Amour was co-produced by Austria and Germany," he said to co-presenter, actress Emma Stone. "The last time Austria and Germany co-produced something it was Hitler but this was much better."

McFarlane certainly seemed unrepentant when he responded to critics on his Twitter feed.

“Lotta flap over that Adolf joke. Look, Amour was a great film, so how about this: Austria, we'll give you the Oscar if you take back Arnold.”

If this is the sort of schtick McFarlane is capable of even before the big night, it should make for an interesting show come February 24.