3.Will Smith was nominated for Best Actor for his performance in The Pursuit of Happyness, and attended with his co-star and son, Jaden, and wife Jada.
4.Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Actor for Half Nelson and also rocked some light stubble.
6.Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for Best Actor for Blood Diamond — his third Academy Award nomination.
7.Al Gore was there because his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature (which it won).
8.Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé were a couple.
9.Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez were also still very much together. He even took ~pap~ photos of her on the carpet.
10.Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow shared a laugh together on the carpet.
11.Cate Blanchett looked flawless, of course.
12.Anne Hathaway was still six years away from winning her Oscar.
13.Queen Latifah photobombed legendary actor Peter O'Toole — who was nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Venus.
14.Nicole Kidman posed with Meryl Streep — who was nominated for Best Actress for her ICONIC performance as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.
15.Ellen DeGeneres was the host.
16.And she managed to recruit Steven Spielberg to take a photo of her with Clint Eastwood. But she didn’t ask Bey to join?! Missed opportunity.
17.Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell broke out into song as they presented the award for Best Makeup.
18.Abigail Breslin and Jaden Smith were adorable presenters.
19.Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson performed a melody from Dreamgirls — which, with eight nominations, was the most nominated movie of the year.
20.Melissa Etheridge won Best Original Song song for An Inconvenient Truth.
21.Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dreamgirls.
22.Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine.
23.Forest Whitaker took home the Oscar for Best Actor for The Last King of Scotland.
24.Helen Mirren took home the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Queen.
25.Martin Scorsese — surrounded by his friends and fellow directors Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg — finally won an Oscar for Best Director for his work on The Departed. He had previously been nominated five times.
