If I had made an Oscars speech at Sunday night time’s ninety fifth Academy Awards, it’d be to thank my mother for digging in my childhood bed room closet to discover a swimsuit I may put on to the ceremony.

Positive, I regarded extra like I used to be about to make a First Communion than attend the Oscars, however if you get an surprising alternative to attend the Academy Awards, it’s best to take it. Shouldn’t you?

Although many facets of Hollywood’s greatest night time lived as much as the “visually beautiful expertise” promised by government producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss forward of Sunday’s ceremony—which featured seven Oscar wins for All the pieces All over the place All At As soon as (together with Greatest Image and a Greatest Actress trophy for previous Adweek cover star Michelle Yeoh), a historic night time for Asian illustration in movie and even an actor parading round as Cocaine Bear—it wasn’t all glitz, glam and bear cosplay.

From among the most surprising snubs of the night time being manufacturers to Hollywood’s secret “power” disaster, right here’s what you didn’t know concerning the ninety fifth Academy Awards.

Not all viewing experiences are created equal

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The view from Mezzanine 3 within the Dolby Theater.Invoice Bradley/Adweek

“Ouch” was the primary phrase I heard after getting into the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles when the ushers checked out my seating project.

I used to be excessive up in Mezzanine 3, to date previous the nosebleeds {that a} digital camera suspended from the ceiling blocked the view of a pea-sized Woman Gaga for many of her stripped-down efficiency of “Maintain My Hand” from Prime Gun: Maverick.

However being on the Oscars continues to be being on the Oscars, regardless that you’d need to duck if Tom Cruise did a flyby in an F-14. Nonetheless, attending the present made it clear that there are distinct variations between the expertise within the theater and the one viewers see at dwelling.

For example, this 12 months’s Oscars was imagined to introduce a extra multiscreen expertise, with the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences posting movies of acceptance speeches on TikTok and Fb, and Disney+ even streaming the Oscars present dwell in components of Europe.