1 / 7Emma Stone looked genuinely surprised when she won Best Actress for her starring role in “Poor Things." On stage, she revealed part of that surprise: a faulty zipper. “My dress is broken!” she exclaimed. “I’m pretty sure it happened during 'I’m Just Ken.’” Backstage after the show, Stone gave an update. “They sewed me back in,” she said.
2 / 7Dressed in a big bowtie, Messi the dog got his own seat at the awards. "Even though he’s a dog, he may have given the performance of a year in ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’" host Jimmy Kimmel said in the opening monologue.
3 / 7Neon pink lights shone on Ryan Gosling as he performed “I’m Just Ken," a huge 80s power ballad, in a glittering pink suit. Perhaps tired of the all-pink wardrobe required of her titular character, Margot Robbie laid the colour to rest and instead went with a subdued brown Versace dress for the event.
4 / 7Protesters shut down a section of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard calling for an end to the violence in Rafah, a dense city on Gaza’s border with Egypt.
5 / 7The crew of “Godzilla Minus One” carried monster figurines and wore matching, spiked shoes.
6 / 7“The Boy and the Heron” filmmakers brought plush versions of the characters. The film won best animated feature, but Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki weren’t at the Oscars to accept their statuette.
7 / 7John Cena re-enacts a legendary Oscars moment – At the Oscars ceremony 50 years ago, a man ran across the stage naked flashing a peace sign behind actor David Niven, a legendary piece of Academy Awards history that host Kimmel said he wanted to commemorate. To celebrate the anniversary, actor and wrestling star John Cena walked on stage wearing nothing but the envelope containing the name of the winner of the best costume Oscar. "Costumes are so important," Cena deadpanned. "Maybe the most important thing there is."
