Best Dance

The first surprise of Oscar Sunday was when Meryl Streep shimmied–yes,  shimmied–with Pharrell during his performance of his song “Happy.” Lupita Nyong’o was the first to get up and dance with him in her ridiculously beautiful blue gown, but the Streep Shimmy stole the show simply because it was so unexpected. She really can turn anything into art.

Pharrell’s actual performance was a little saccharine and unsettlingly bright, especially placed near the beginning of The Most Important and Serious Annual Night of Film. The dance crew was complete with a couple of children who had clearly consumed more Pixy Stix than even the glitziest Toddlers in Tiaras.

The Selfie

DeGeneres’s interspersed comedy segments seemed to feed the public’s desire to see celebrities “doing normal things”–like ordering a pizza,  which DeGeneres actually did and later handed out to a few lucky A-listers. The crowning moment of these purposely mundane bits took the form of the now-ubiquitous selfie. In a photo that DeGeneres later claimed “broke Twitter,” celebrities from Meryl Streep to Bradley Cooper to Julia Roberts and J-Law crammed into the frame and were all so beautiful that nothing noteworthy ever happened on the Internet ever again.