1. Red Carpet Ruckus
It didn't appear during the show, but Sacha Baron Cohen's pre-show achievement with Ryan Seacrest had anybody talking. While he was actuality interviewed by Seacrest, the actor (who was dressed up as his Dictator character) agitated an absolute urn of "ashes" all over the active host. Seacrest was visibly afflicted that his brittle Burberry tux was now covered in charcoal and aegis promptly escorted Cohen away.
2. Bieber Fever
In the aperture account of the Oscars, Billy Crystal jumped from a smooch with George Clooney to the abominable bath arena from Bridesmaids to Paris, area he met music cool brilliant Justin Bieber. "Come here, appear here," the boyhood idol alleged out to Crystal. "What's up? I'm actuality to get you the 18-24 demographic. So how continued do you appetite me to sit actuality for?"
3. The Host with the Most
Billy Crystal was aback to host the Oscars for the ninth time, and admitting he played it appealing safe, the actor did action up a few adapted zingers. "Because annihilation can booty the bite out of today's bread-and-butter hardships like watching millionaires accord anniversary added aureate statues," Crystal joked afore ablution into his brand aperture song about anniversary of the Best Picture nominees.
4. Baby Got Back
Jennifer Lopez may or may not accept had a apparel malfunction back she presented the Academy Award for Best Makeup alongside Cameron Diaz. The video affirmation is inconclusive, but Twitter was all abuzz with belief about the declared abruptness actualization of J. Lo's adult genitalia (or was it aloof a shadow?). We're not absolutely abiding why, but Lopez and Diaz additionally showed off their backsides while they were presenting.
5. Affecting Win
An affecting Octavia Spencer accustomed a continuing acclaim back she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for arena abrupt charwoman Minnie Jackson in The Help. After thanking her family, the accompaniment of Alabama, and the casting and aggregation of The Help, Spencer couldn't advice but be afflicted by the moment. "I'm freaking out!" she exclaimed with a beam at the end of her speech.
6. Muppet Fun
Hollywood's hottest couple, Kermit and Miss Piggy, were additionally on duke to watch Bret McKenzie win the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets movie. The Muppet brace additionally absolved the red carpeting afore the big show, and one of our advertent appearance editors noticed a arresting affinity amid Miss Piggy's clothes and Selena Gomez's dress from the American Cine Awards.
7. Emma Stone Hams It Up
Funny gal Emma Stone, 23, accepted that she's added than accessible for the big leagues with an continued ball bit with co-presenter Ben Stiller. "This is my aboriginal time presenting," Stone quipped. "Wait, wait, let's stop rushing. We should accept some banter. Where you act arrogant and I shut you bottomward and you say I attending appealing and I say 'no adventitious funny boy'!" It ability accept bootless in anyone else's hands, but the absorbing
8. 'Bridesmaids' Bubbler Game
Bridesmaids stars Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy best up area they larboard off at the SAG Awards with their Martin Scorsese bubbler bold (you accept to booty a alcohol anytime addition says the chat "Scorsese"). After some quick pulls from mini liquor bottles, the gals presented the Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
9. Animated Rock
"I adulation animation," actor Chris Rock said back he took the date to duke out the Oscar for Best Animated Film. "I adulation action because in the apple of animation, you can be annihilation you appetite to be. If you're a fat woman you can comedy a angular princess. If you're a abbreviate blah guy, you can comedy a alpine gladiator. If you're a white man you can comedy an Arabian prince. And if you're a atramentous man, you can comedy a donkey, or a zebra. You can't comedy white, my God!" Well played, Chris Rock.
10. Leg Up
Angelina Jolie vamped it up back she took the date to present the Academy Award for Best Aparted Screenplay, bulging her appropriate leg out of the thigh-high aperture of her baking Versace gown. Back The Descendants screenwriters Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash stepped onstage to acquire their Oscars, Rash mocked Jolie by arresting the exact aforementioned pose.
11. Better Late Than Never
Christopher Plummer, 82, became the oldest Oscar champ anytime back he took home the accolade for Best Supporting Actor for arena an aged man who comes out to his son in The Beginners. Plummer accustomed that he's about as old as the Oscars themselves back he said to his cast fresh aureate statue, "You're alone two years earlier than me darling, area accept you been all my life?"
12. Cirque du Oscars
Performing adjoin a accomplishments of archetypal films like North by Northwest, Titanic, and Gone with the Wind, Cirque du Soliel wowed the admirers with a showstopping accolade to movies. Between the amazing aerialists and the absurd acrobatics, we couldn't booty our eyes off the screen.
13. Cymbal-ic Night
One of the night's funniest (and silliest) moments came from comedians Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis, who fabricated a altercation back they marched onstage while acute calm behemothic cymbals. What do you say we alpha an online address allurement these guys to host the anniversary abutting year?
14. French Fun
During his accepting speech, The Artist's Jean Dujardin let out an athrill flurry of words in his built-in French that larboard abounding admirers apprehensive absolutely what he had said. When the amateur visited The Today Show the morning afterwards the Oscars, he told host Ann Curry that his French acknowledge you about translated to "It was amazing, it was incredible." And indeed, it was.
15. In Memoriam
Esperanza Spaulding sang a attractive arrangement of "What a Wonderful World" during the In Memoriam allocation of the evening, which accustomed stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Whitney Houston, and Steve Jobs. It was a agilely tasteful moment amidst all of the activity of the night.
16. Streep Fatigue? No Way!
Meryl Streep has been nominated for an Oscar 17 times, but aftermost night was the aboriginal time that she had won back 1983! The extra joked that audiences were apparently annoyed of her, adage "When they alleged my name I’d had this activity I could apprehend bisected of America activity 'oh no…oh c’mon…why…her…again?'" Then she got austere and thanked her husband. "First I’m activity to acknowledge Don because back you acknowledge your bedmate at the end of the accent they comedy him out with the music and I appetite him to apperceive that aggregate I amount best in our lives you’ve accustomed me."
