"I'd Like To Thank The Academy"

All 6,000 members of the academy for coming together last night and wrapping up the award season in a memorable night. From the red carpet to the Ellen as Glinda (like Galinda without the Ga) the good witch to the selfie that broke twitter, the 86th annual Academy Awards were a hit!

Let's start with the red carpet! Luckily this go around there weren't many blunders! Lupita Nyong'o kept up her fashionista power by wear a stunning powder blue deep V pleated Prada dress. 

her best accessory of the night? 

Her Oscar of course! Lupita took home her first Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave (Best Motion Picture Winner!) 

Fellow Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Jennifer Lawrence, redeemed her self from the Golden Globes. In a fitting pellum  style red Dior dress! with her signature backwards necklace. 

But in true jlaw fashion, much like Sandra Bullock, couldn't defy gravity...

Lawrence Fell just after getting out of her limo! at least she has an amazing sense of humor and laughed it off! 

Speaking of Sandy B. SHE. LOOKED. FLAWLESS.

Bullock stunned everyone (like always) in this Navy McQueen gown. Sandra's film Gravity took home the most awards (6) for the night, expect for the category Sandra was in, Best leading Actress. Maybe next...she'll be lucky

With that we move on to THE Liza Minelli in a blue satin pant suit? with matching her. granted, this look is uh, well a tad... ugly. Liza can do no wrong. She has hit the age, status and mental state to do what ever she wants and it be acceptable. 

 

Liza was at the Oscars because her late mother, Judy Garlands, film- Wizard of Oz (ring ant bells) was honored

Liza (left) and Mama Judy (right)

with a beautiful rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow sung by P!nk, Who looked as amazing as she sounded. 

In Ellie Saab's 2013 Fall Couture Sparkling Red plunge V gown. 

After Pink sang somewhere over the rainbow in the most simplistic way, which isn't usually how pink does thing, yet she was honoring a film classic not her acrobatic skills--Ellen graced the staged dressed as Glinda the Good Witch (Like GAlinda, without the GA --All you Wicked Fans know what I am talking about.)

Ellen is too perfect... even though her original tux looked like she pulled it right off the rack from Behind the Candelabras costume wrack. 

love you Ellen, but do you know what I love a little more than you... your OSCAR SELFIES! 

look at this! look at HER! Look at THEM! Bradley, Jen, Mrs. Streep, Julia, Leto, The Jolie-Pitts, Channing, Kevin Spacey, Lupita and ...her brother??? yay for Junior but him an dLupita should have switched places.! 

and we can't for get about the Liza Selfie. Gays, lesbians, and Thespians all around the world went hysterical... I know I did. 

Speaking of Gays/Lesbians/Thespians going hysterical... 5. WORDS. BETTE. MIDLER. AND. IDINA MENZEL... or should I say Adele Mezi... way to go John Travolta. First Bette Midler Graced the red carpet in a stunning Reem Arca gown 

then switched to an more appropriate dress to Sing Wind Beneath My Wings for the In Memoriam tribute

Bette Did BETTEr than Idina Menzel. Sorry girl, but you were a tad off... perhaps because she was distracted by John Travolta butchering her name

or every note that Idina--I mean Adele Mezie didn't hit while singing Let It Go, from the hit Disney movie Frozen-- Kristin Chenoweth became happier and happier. probably not, because their 'feud" is faux... I know because they tweeted each other in 2013. 

Even though Menzel's performances wasn't Menzel worthy, all of us theatre people know how phenomenal she can sing, and are letting it go (get it). Frozen won Best Animated Motion Picture and Best Original Song.

The acceptance speech from husband and wife writing duo, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez   was too cute

MUST WATCH ACCEPTANCE SPEECH!!!

This year at the Oscars had many amazing heartfelt acceptance speeches. From Mathew, Leto and Lupita. they said what they needed to say and made us all have goosebumps and genuinely happy for them.

Mathew Mcconaughey's beautiful speech. ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT 

But the best acceptance of all wasn't even words, yet a jump! from 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen 

No more award shows for a while... well at least not many important one. TONY's IN JUNE!!! 

I cannot wait for the movies of 2014 that will make us all stop and think like many of the films nominated this year. 

Here is the full Winning list:

via Google. 

86th Academy Awards winners

Best Picture	12 Years a Slave
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Leading Role	Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Animated Feature	Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
Best Cinematography	Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Best Costume Design	The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
Best Directing	Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Documentary Feature	20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers)
Best Documentary Short	The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Best Film Editing	Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
Best Foreign Language Film	The Great Beauty (Italy)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling	Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Best Original Score	Gravity (Steven Price)
Best Original Song	Let It Go - Frozen
Best Production Design	The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Best Animated Short Film	Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Best Live Action Short Film	Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Best Sound Editing	Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
Best Sound Mixing	Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
Best Visual Effects	Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
Best Adapted Screenplay	12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Best Original Screenplay	Her (Spike Jonze)