Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, is ladling out the requisite long-winded self-congratulatory hooey. He's going on about how stirring the montage of scenes from issue-oriented movies was, apparently having missed Stewart's wonderful dismissal of said montage as it ended: "And none of those issues were ever a problem again."

And he's saying, (I'm paraphrasing because I was too bored to listen closely), "No actor ever finished a scene and said, 'That'll look good on the DVD.'" Actually, I'll bet there are a lot of them who say that these days.

Hey, Brokeback Mountain won its first Oscar -- best score, Gustavo Santaolalla, who gave what may be the longest acceptance speech to date.