Amazing night at the Oscars

Lots of great moments at the recently concluded Oscar Awards. Lupita Ngyong'o won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 12 Years a Slave. "Let it go" from Frozen won Best Original Song. And I just found out that one of the writers of this song - Robert Lopez - is Filipino American. He is now one of only twelve members of the very exclusive EGOT club - people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. I also just learned that one of the other guys Robert Lopez beat for best song - Pharell Williams - is half Filipino. Cool! Then of course there was the pizza delivery that had several guests in the audience enjoyed. And John Travolta butchering Idina Menzel's name (apparently he called her Adele Dazeem).

A record was also made during the Oscars, when Ellen took a star-studded selfie. Of course I'm really happy that Meryl Streep is in it, and it actually started out with Ellen and Meryl before Ellen started pulling a lot of other people in including Lupita, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Jared Leto, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie. Lupita's brother upstaged her by photombombing this amazing set of A-list celebrities.

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

Here's how this record-breaking selfie came about:


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This pic now holds the record for being the most retweeted tweet. In less than an hour, this selfie had been shared more than a million times, easily eclipsing previous record holder President Obama with 778,000 retweets. As I write this, I see that Ellen's selfie has now been retweeted more than 3 million times. Amazing!