The Oscars happened! You may have heard that there was some shocking event last year, but nothing of the sort took place at this year’s big party, and the result was…well, it was a pretty boring show. But that’s okay, because the awards themselves actually made sense! Nobody egregious won, there were a couple of fantastic comeback stories, and many tears were shed. Here, in no particular order, were the standout moments of the evening.
Jimmy Kimmel did a forgettable monologue with the exception of this part, wherein he accurately described the appalling response in the moment to last year’s Will Smith Slap (TM).
Hugh Grant was in the news last week for always being an asshole. And now we know it was the media prepping us for the Oscars.
Hottest moment of the night goes to the hottest star of the moment, everybody’s daddy Pedro Pascal.
We all sort of knew Ke Huy Quan would win Best Supporting Actor, but we all still cried anyway. What a year this lovely man has had. I’m putting it out into the world that this shouldn’t be the end of his story. This should be the start of him getting a LOT MORE ROLES. Pay attention, Hollywood.
You gotta love a group of people with their priorities so straight that they use their Academy Awards speech time to sing Happy Birthday to their colleague James Martin, who is the first actor with Down Syndrome to be nominated for an Oscar. And now the first to win one!
I thought David Byrne’s hotdog fingers were as funny as it would get until they started flashing Racacoonie on the screen at the freaking Oscars. This song was off-key and bizarre and I love imagining out-of-touch old Academy members watching that performance with zero idea what the hell was going on.
There’s only one queen I needed to see at the Oscars.
Jamie Lee Curtis won an Oscar! She’s been a Hollywood icon forever but nobody really expected her to win, including Jamie Lee Curtis. Her reaction was adorable.
I don’t know anybody who actually saw The Whale but I also don’t know anybody who didn’t want Brendan Fraser to win an Oscar.
People keep saying Angela Bassett was robbed, but when she’s got these two men on speed dial, I think she’s winning everything that matters.
I would’ve been so mad if I was sitting behind this lady. [Update: Apparently this is Tems, and she is an absolute badass who I’m now a huge fan of, but I would still have been mad if I was sitting behind her.]
I don’t understand why Triangle of Sadness was nominated for Best Picture, but Charlbi Dean was absolutely radiant in it and it’s offensive that they left her out.
Women Talking was something of a surprise win for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Sarah Polley gave a fantastic speech.
It was fantastic to see Michelle Yeoh win Best Actress, because she’s incredible in literally everything she does. She’s also the first Asian woman to win in the category, and it was a nice moment to see Halle Berry–the first Black woman to win Best Actress–present the award to Yeoh.
Every member of Gen X loves Indiana Jones, it’s basically part of our DNA. So this is the best thing that the Oscars could possibly have given us, something we never even knew we needed.
