Zendaya and Robert Pattinson

This is beautifully simple but precise. She looks incredible for the job at hand and he Brylcreem'd his hair so hard that he's a cane away from a Busby Berkeley number.

It's a teeny bit sexy, the accessories are perfect but understated... I'm very pleased.

Marsai Martin

Ah yes, the old Her Navel Extrudes Fabric gambit. Plus a collar! Two things I wish people did less of, although as a person she looks great.

Hannah Bilka

Championship hockey player Hannah Bilka in the house! You are awesome, Hannah, and someone owes you metallic shoes.

Kristen Wiig in Elie Saab

This looked black sometimes, and weirdly reddish on TV, but I'm PRETTY sure it's brown. which is what the runway seemed to indicate. This is two different dresses, to my mind, and I want to see where the top one could have gone if it had not been so rudely interrupted. If they DID insist on both, it needs a bridge. A metallic belt?

Kieran Culkin

He looked really tired. His wife DID end up having that third child; I suspect he zipped in and zipped out.

Michael Cimino

Not totally sure what he was there for, but he acquitted himself well.

Javier Bardem

Are he and Penelope Cruz kind of like Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, where they almost never go anywhere together and you NEVER really hear about their lives, but they're still married? This is NONE of my business and I do not expect any answer to that question, but it's always so interesting to me, again, that people so famous can be THAT off the grid if they choose to be.

Domhnall Gleeson

For some reason I don't have a full photo of him, so BOO HOO, we have to look closely at his face.

Sinners

This was from the performance from "Sinners," which was incredibly done. Just an unreal amount of talent on that stage, including Miles Caton and Shaboozey and all those dancers and Misti Copeland, Raphael Saadiq, Buddy Guy, Li Jun Li, Jayme Lawson...

... and Brittany Howard, RESPLENDENT in this coat.

Huntr/x

"Golden" was fun but I almost wished they'd have ended with this? We all knew it would win; imagine if the show concluded and they busted out this song and everyone in the audience just PARTIED as the credits covered a tiny portion of the bottom of the screen.

Rachel McAdams in Alberta Ferretti

I almost accidentally wrote hat she gave a touching tribute to Diane KRUGER, and that would have been a surprise to many people, especially Diane Kruger. She looks magnificent. I had no idea she was doing this and so when she appeared, for a hot second I thought it was some kind of strange flashback to a previous year.

Billy Crystal

As soon as they called Billy out to begin the "In Memoriam" and the Rob Reiner portion, I was like, "Oh, NO, I am done for."

Look at all those classics, and that's only a portion of his legacy.

The Rob Reiner tribute

This is: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton, Fred Savage, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Carol Kane, Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollak, Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga. I can only imagine how hard this was for Conan, too, given that his party was part of the tragic story of the Reiners' murder.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra is 83 and doesn't seem to go out anywhere very much, so I'm going to give her a pass on the peasant dress with thumbhole and just appreciate that she busted out a bit of "The Way We Were" live.

Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans

This bit, which spotlighted the anniversary of The Avengers, did not land at all. It was very poorly pinned to whatever they were presenting.

Conan O'Brien and Sterling K. Brown

However, this was a hoot, as a demonstration of how you write a scene for the iPhone generation where no one is paying attention and exposition is clunky as hell. The actual Casablanca piano is in the Academy museum and I wonder if that is, in fact, it.

Josh Groban and host Conan O'Brien

Conan did a bit about how unclassy he would be if he won an Oscar, and it ended with a pope blessing him before he climbed upon this mountain and received his Oscar by owl. I dug it.

Conan

Costume change!

Lionel Richie

Whenever I do "Hello" at karaoke I am going to imagine Lionel pointing at me with approval.

This seems like an appropriate way to end our day.

2026 Oscars: Louis Vuitton Did Well By Zendaya

It's the browns, the telecast, and the browns on the telecast.