The Oscars have a whole other show going on off-screen that audiences at home don't see on TV. Here's what the AP saw and didn't catch on camera:
Greta Gerwig was in good spirits alongside Robbie and America Ferrera after the Best Supporting Actress award went to Davin Joy Randolph. And yes, Mulligan and Mumford finally found their seats.
She then turned to Florence Pugh, who was standing nearby, and the two spoke animatedly about Pugh's “studded dress.”
Suddenly, Pugh looked up at the monitor, laughing, and saw a nearly naked John Cena. “Oh, that's because he looks like Oscar!”
Seconds later, “Poor Things” also won Best Costume Design, and Stone was jumping up and down and screaming again.
“They're all gone,” she cried. “No, no, I'm going home.”
“I want you to know how much it means to me,” said Academy Director and Costume Designer Eduardo Castro.
Ross, 92, played a woman sitting on a bench in “Barbie,” which Kimmel imitated in the opening scene. She has won two Oscars for “The English Patient'' and “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.''
Mr. Castro, whose credits include “Ugly Betty'' and “Bride and Prejudice,'' said he considers Mr. Ross a mentor.
“She's special,” Gerwig said. “She said, 'Greta, I don't know if I can do it, I can't do it!' She asked for a martini, please.”
“She loves martinis,” Castro said with a laugh.
At that point, Gerwig's husband, Noah Baumbach, walked up to her and the two headed to a bar. (They didn't order martinis, though.)
During the performance, the Dolby Theater felt like a Taylor Swift concert, and everyone in the room got up and spontaneously started dancing. And the biggest fan in the room was Gerwig, who was given her own personal Ken on her face.
During a commercial break, Mark Ronson walked over to Gerwig, Robbie, and a crowd of fans. The whole room buzzed long after the performance ended, Ronson perhaps more than anything else. He returned to his seat proudly wearing his pink Ken shirt, which he wore for the rest of the show.
And although Gerwig and “Barbie” went home mostly empty-handed, she was in great spirits and still had the afterglow of “I'm Just Ken,” which she called “legendary.”