During the tribute to musicals of the past decade, Catherine Zeta-Jones reprised her role from "Chicago" to perform "All That Jazz."
The film may have come out a decade ago, but it very easily could have been 2002 from her performance.
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First Lady Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance at the Oscars on Sunday night via video to announce that "Argo" had won the Best Picture award.
Obama was introduced by Jack Nicholson and said she was thrilled to introduce the nine Best Picture nominees.
"I am so honored to help introduce this year's nominees for best picture and to help celebrate the movies that lift our spirits, broaden our minds and transport us to places we have never imagined," Obama said.
"These nine movies took us back in time and all around the world they made us laugh, they made us weep and they made us grip our armrests just a little tighter. They taught us that love can endure against all odds and transform our lives in the most surprising ways, and they reminded us that we can overcome any obstacle if we dig deep enough and fight hard enough and find the courage to believe in ourselves."
After she announced "Argo" as the winner, she followed up on Twitter:
It was a thrill to announce the #Oscars2013 best picture winner from the @whitehouse! Congratulations Argo! -mo
— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) February 25, 2013
Here's a photo of her appearance, via White House photographer Pete Souza:
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The 85th Academy Awards offered a few surprises Sunday night.
There was the third tie ever in Oscar history, Christoph Waltz took home his second award for Best Supporting Actor, and Steven Spielberg didn't win the award for Best Director.
Here are all of this year's Oscar winners as they were announced on screen.
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Best Animated Short Film: "Paperman"
Best Animated Feature Film: "Brave"
Achievement in Cinematography: "Life of Pi," Claudio Miranda
Achievement in Visual Effects: "Life of Pi"
Achievement in Costume Design: "Anna Karenina," Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling: "Les Misérables"
Best Live-Action Short Film: Curfew
Best Documentary Short Subject: "Inocente"
Best Documentary Feature: "Searching for a Sugar Man"
Best Foreign-Language Film: "Amour"
Achievement in Sound Mixing: "Les Misérables"
Achievement in Sound Editing: TIE! "Zero Dark Thirty" & "Skyfall"
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Achievement in Film Editing: "Argo"
Achievement in Production Direction: "Lincoln"
Original Score: "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna
Original Song: "Skyfall," Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
Adapted Screenplay: "Argo," Chris Terrio
Original Screenplay: "Django Unchained," Quentin Tarantino
Achievement in Directing: Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Motion Picture: "Argo"
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Before celebrities entered the Dolby Theater for Sunday's 85th annual Academy Awards, they first dazzled outside on the red carpet.
Jennifer Lawrence won both Best Actress and best dressed, while hairdos from Salma Hayek and Melissa McCarthy left us scratching our heads.
See who brought the glitz and glamour, and who should have stayed off the red carpet.
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Ben Affleck may have been snubbed for a Best Director nod at this year's Oscars, but his passion project "Argo" took home Best Picture during Sunday night's show.
But instead of using his podium time to hold a grudge against the academy, Affleck gave a heartfelt speech in which he thanked his wife, children and reminisced about his first Oscar win for "Good Will Hunting" when he was "just a kid."
When thanking his wife, actress Jennifer Garner, Affleck said, "It's work, it's the best kind of work...and there's no one else I'd rather work with."
The choked up director/actor/producer then thanked his three young children and quickly walked off-stage before the tears started to run. Watch below at 5:05.
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Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, of MTV's The Shore fame, has sold her custom purple-trim Cadillac Escalade on eBay for $77,510. The 2011 car was autographed across the hood by the star, and it comes with custom wheels, a sort of alligator finish, and ambient lighting, in addition to its infamous hot pink highlights.
For the record, a new 2013 Escalade can be bought for around $63,000.
The ad included this image of Snooki signing the vehicle:
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Iranian media on Monday scoffed at Hollywood's awarding of its top honour to Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo", branding it a "political" win while poking fun at US first lady Michelle Obama's surprise appearance at the Oscar ceremony.
The 85th Academy Awards is "the most political Oscar ever," Iran's state television said as it reported the news that "Argo" had won the coveted best film Oscar. Iranian officials have not immediately reacted.
The Iranian state broadcaster accused "Argo" director and star Affleck of specialising "in exaggeration, blowing things out of proportion and creating false scenes."
"Argo" recounts the long-classified CIA plot to extract six US hostages out of revolutionary Iran, who managed to evade Islamist students storming the US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
The other 52 hostages were held for 444 days in an action that caused the rupture of diplomatic ties between Washington and Tehran.
Although "Argo" takes liberties with history by its makers' own admission, the movie has racked up a rash of honours on the awards circuit.
The movie's Oscar win was announced by US first lady Obama in an unprecedented satellite appearance from the White House.
Iran's state television said her involvement "increases speculation that awarding this movie was politically motivated."
The Fars news agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, branded "Argo" as an "anti-Iran movie" financed by a "Zionist company" -- in a reference to the California-based Warner Bros. which produced it.
Fars was also critical of Obama and her silver low cut gown, which would be banned in the Islamic republic under its strict dress code for women.
A photo of Obama announcing "Argo" as the winner appeared to have been altered -- her dress is shown covering her shoulders, in contrast to the original which shows her bare-shouldered.
Doctoring of pictures is not uncommon in Iran.
In 2011, Iranian newspapers published an altered picture of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that covered up her cleavage. She was at the time heading the P5+1 group of United States, Russia, China, Britain, France plus Germany in talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear drive.
Those talks are to resume after an eight-month hiatus on Tuesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty.
Iran and the United States are locked in a tense showdown over an array of issues, including Tehran's nuclear ambitions which the West and Israel suspect are aimed at military objectives, despite Iran's repeated denials.
Iran's contempt of Hollywood is no secret.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Wednesday criticised it as a "totally political" machine that propagates policies brewed in Washington.
"Hollywood is totally political. Otherwise it would have let our anti-Zionist movies participate in film festivals," he said in remarks reported by his Khamenei.ir website.
"Producing political anti-Iranian movies and giving awards to anti-Iranian movies is a clear sign that politics is mixed with art in the US," Khamenei added in an allusion to "Argo".
Hollywood in 2007 drew the wrath of Iranians for its Spartan war epic "300," a smash hit in the United States for its gory tale of the Greco-Persian wars which depicted Iranians as bloodthirsty.
The relationship between the entertainment industry and Iranians however was somewhat repaired in 2012 when Iran won its first ever Oscar, with "A Separation" in the best foreign-language category.
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Jennifer Lawrence took home the award for best actress last night for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook."
Lawrence had a little fall when she walked on stage, so of course a lot of questions focused on her tumble in her interview with the press after accepting her award.
What was the 22-year-old actress thinking when she fell down?
"A bad word. That I can't say. That starts with F," Lawrence joked.
Lawrence handled the questions perfectly. She made what could have been totally boring and pointless questions really fun:
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An updated NYC Celebrity Star Map by apartment search site Rentenna.com just came out last week.
Unsurprisingly, most of the celebs were congregated in the same neighborhoods: The swanky West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, and TriBeCa neighborhoods were all well represented. Looking uptown, the Upper West Side and Midtown (right below Central Park) also had a number of famous residents.
Though Brooklyn does not appear in detail on the map, Rentenna.com did provide a list of the A-list stars living across the bridge, too.
See the full infographic below.
DON'T MISS: See Where Celebrities And Big Shots Live In NYC's West Village
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Adele says that she may be involved in a Beyoncé-style documentary or musical after winning an Oscar for best original song.
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British singer Adele added an Oscar to her collection of Grammys and Brit awards last night, as she won in the best original song category for the Skyfall theme. However, according to a backstage interview, the singer has even bigger plans ahead.
Adele joked about future projects which could land her potential Emmy and Tony awards, seeing her join the list of 'EGOT' stars - those who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
"Maybe I'll do an HBO special like Beyoncé did!" Adele mused: "A Tony I'm not so sure, maybe someday I'll do a musical."
Adele has won the first Oscar for a Bond film in 47 years, when Thunderball won in the special visual effects category. She explained backstage that the rumours that Skyfall was recorded in 10 minutes were untrue: instead it took two studio sessions. She said recording the Bond theme was "one of the proudest moments of my life".
The song went on to become Adele's first to appear in the Billboard Hot 100 in the Top 10 during its first week.
The Oscar continues a golden year for Adele. At the 2012 Grammys last February she won in all six categories for which she was nominated, and won two Brit awards shortly after. She later won two Ivor Novello Awards, for Songwriter of the Year and for her song Rolling in the Deep.
Her second album, 21, saw Adele break chart records previously held by artists such as Whitney Houston, Judy Garland and Carole King. Notably, the album broke the record for the longest number one album by a woman in Billboard history, after 21 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot.
In January it was revealed that 21 was the first since Michael Jackson's Thriller to be the best-selling release in America for two years running.
In October Adele gave birth to her first son, after a pregnancy kept well away from the public eye.
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If you missed any of the Academy Awards last night, you can take a look at all of the winners here.
Where does an Oscar winner keep his prize? Ang Lee says his Best Director Oscar for "Life of Pi" will have a home in his study.
Speaking of "Life of Pi," the film took home the most awards of the night with four wins.
The former ambassador of Canada is glad Ben Affleck thanked Canada after his film "Argo" took home the Oscar Best Picture.
New York Time's Jeff Zeleny has been hired by ABC News as a Senior Washington Correspondent
The entire Oscar ceremony is online to watch for a limited time on Hulu and ABC.com. Check out Seth MacFarlane's long opening monologue full of musical sketches below:
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After last year's Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake trailer for the "Best movie never made": "Movie: The Movie."
Last night, he followed up to last year's popular YouTube video—it has 20 million views and counting—with a second star-studded trailer for the film's sequel, "Movie: The Movie: 2V."
John Krasinski plays every superhero known to man, Jimmy Kimmel stars as Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury from "The Avengers," and Oprah's the president.
Watch the video below:
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First Lady Michelle Obama made a cameo at the Academy Awards last night, where she joined Jack Nicholson in presenting the award for Best Picture.
Even White House reporters were surprised by the appearance, which was kept under wraps by the First Lady's press office.
But the most startling moment of the presentation came when Nicholson asked his co-presenter to announce the winner, and appeared to refer to the First Lady by her last name only.
"Obama, do you have your envelope?"
It's possible that the "Mrs." was simply cut off, but that didn't stop Michelle Obama and her aides from chuckling.
Watch the video below, courtesy of Now This News:
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If you turned off the three hour plus affair that was the Oscars, you most likely missed out on Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar show which he does every year after the big award show.
Though Seth MacFarlane gave us a few laughs during the Oscars, Channing Tatum proved on the late night show that he and Jamie Foxx could have easily hosted the ceremony.
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You probably can't sleep if you're on Oreo's social media team.
After the cookie company's clever — and immediate — reaction to the Super Bowl blackout with a tweet that read "You can still dunk in the dark," Oreo has become the go-to brand for quick tweets on notable pop culture moments, complete with original artwork as well.
During the Grammy's, Oreo celebrated Justin Timberlake's musical turn by tweeting a picture of a cookie with a bow tie that read, "Bringing Tasty Back," (a reference to Timberlake's "Bringing Sexy Back").
It also brought its game face to Twitter for the Academy Awards.
Oreo's first Tweet was a reference to "Wreck It Ralph," which was nominated for best animated film:
Then, during the James Bond tribute, Oreo paid its own homage to the international man of mystery by recreating the films' famous gun barrel sequence:
Of course, Oreo noted that everyone wasn't watching the Oscars. The cookie's Twitter account also gave a "Walking Dead" shoutout since the show was competing with the Academy Award broadcast:
And finally, Oreo was there for biggest award of all: the best picture category. As soon as "Argo" won, Oreo tweeted a reference to its plot:
While the Super Bowl tweet was completely off-the-cuff — no one expected a blackout in the middle of the biggest live broadcast of the year! — we're suspecting that many of these reactions were already ready to go by the time a winner was announced on TV.
Oreo even created a hashtag, #OREOmotionpics, for the affair.
Even though none of these tweets had the viral success of the blackout reaction, Oreo has cemented a spot as a real-time marketer to watch.
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Satirical publication The Onion crossed the line last night when it tweeted "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c*** right?"
The insensitive tweet was taken down an hour after it was posted after many on twitter called it tasteless and abusive.
Today, The Onion CEO Steve Hannah apologized for the tweet and said the individuals responsible for the tweet would be disciplined. Here's his whole statement:
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Last night's Oscar awards carried on for a lengthy three-and-a-half hours.
If you turned away, or tuned out before the marathon event was over, you may have missed an Oscar-worthy moment on or off stage.
Jennifer Lawrence fell during the show, Sandra Bullock made a GIF-worthy face while presenting, and Ben Affleck was brought to tears by the end of the night.
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Restaurateur, chef, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain answered questions in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session earlier today.
The notoriously forthright "No Reservations" host, who will host a show on CNN starting this spring, offered up some fantastic responses to fans' questions on everything from his favorite foods to his past drug use.
Here are a couple of highlights from the conversation.
What prompted the move to CNN? Was it issues with Travel Channel a la the Cadillac product integration debacle, or simply a chance to do something in a different vain than "No Reservations"?
CNN is letting me and my crew make smarter TV in places that Travel never would have allowed. Also--the new regime at Travel were a pretty unpleasant, uninspiring bunch. I saw the writing on the wall.
What was your favorite episode of "No Reservations" you ever did?
I'm proudest of Rome. Because everybody said it was the stupidest idea ever--to make food porn in black and white.
Which was harder to master? The art of cooking or the art of writing?
Cooking professionally is hard work. Writing is a privilege and a luxury. Anybody who whines about writers block should be forced to clean squid all day.
What is something you never want to taste again?
Methadone
If you had to have one last drink in this lifetime, what would it be, where would it be, and who would you share it with?
I'd like to have a beer and a meat pie with Keith Richards.
How did you manage to get Alton Brown to a strip club, and then make him say "Make it rain"?
My proudest accomplishment. Watching Alton Brown at the Clermont. Im sure the people at Food Net were browning their shorts.
You openly admit to being an ex-addict. Plenty of ex-addicts can't drink at all, because if they do it tumbles into drugs again. How are you able to still drink and continue to live your lifestyle without slipping?
I am a VERY unusual case. You are correct. Most people who kick heroin and cocaine have to give up on everything. Maybe cause my experiences were so awful in the end, I've never been tempted to relapse.
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If you were watching the Oscars last night you may have had your attention diverted from Anne Hathaway's face in favor of her dress.
From a mile away, it looked like you could see through the top of Hathaway's pale pink Prada gown.
The two big seams in the dress acting like arrows didn't help either.
Considering Oscar outfits are often planned out far in advance, wouldn't someone have caught this fashion faux pas ahead of time?
Maybe not.
On the red carpet, Hathaway divulged that she decided three hours before the Oscars to go with the Prada dress instead of a pre-planned Valentino.
And, this was after Valentino sent out a press release announcing Hathaway would be wearing one of its couture gowns.
It all boils down to a last minute decision.
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Jennifer Lawrence continues to make America fall in love with her. Before the Oscars, where Lawrence took home the best actress award, she was too busy and stressed to eat. But when she arrived on the red carpet she was starving and knew she would never make it through the long show without eating.
Seeing McDonalds across the street, Lawrence had her handler order her a happy meal. During an interview with MTV's Josh Horowitz, Lawrence stopped talking to tell ask her handler to make sure they were going to bring fries and ketchup, too (via Gossip Cop):
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